Board of Directors

Board of Operations:

The Daily Californian’s board of directors, comprised of Daily Cal alumni, UC Berkeley professors and working news media professionals, oversees long-term fiscal management for the newspaper. The board of directors has no control or input in the Daily Cal’s editorial policy or newsroom operations.

Education Foundation:

Because The Daily Californian is one of only a handful of student-run newspapers to operate independently of the university that it covers, the paper is produced entirely based on advertising revenues generated by a student sales staff. The Daily Californian Education Foundation is the nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides the fiscal backbone of the Daily Cal’s student journalism and newspaper management training at UC Berkeley.

The Education Foundation oversees projects for the newspaper staff’s training and fundraising for the Daily Cal’s continual growth– in fact, donations to Education Foundation are strictly earmarked for student training purposes, which include ongoing professional guidance, scholarships for student staff members, and equipment to support the Daily Cal’s core mission to prepare the students for careers in journalism or related fields. It has no influence, however, upon editorial content or policy.

Recent contributions to the Education Foundation were vital in replacing failing computer equipment with top-of-the-line iMacs for the newsroom. Other contributions have funded conference fees and equipment purchases for the photography department. The Education Foundation also grants scholarships to high-achieving Daily Cal student employees every year. In other words, it’s donations to the Education Foundation that allow Cal student staffers the opportunity of gaining daily metro news experience.