Daily Bruin

Daily Bruin
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Founded 1919
Headquarters 118 Kerckhoff Hall
308 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Website www.dailybruin.com

The Daily Bruin is the student newspaper at the University of California, Los Angeles. It began printing in 1919, and has printed five days per week since 1925.

Frequency and governance

When classes are in session, the Bruin is published Monday through Friday during the school year, twice a week during the last week of the quarter, once a week during finals week, and once a week on Mondays in the summer quarter. The Bruin's staff also publishes prime, a quarterly lifestyle magazine, and Bruinwalk.com, a professor and apartment review site.[1]

It is published by the ASUCLA Communications Board, which sets policies for the newspaper and other campus communications media. The current editor in chief is Sam Hoff.[2]

The Daily Bruin editorial team has 14 editorial departments: news writing, sports writing, arts & entertainment writing, opinion writing, radio and podcast journalism, infographic reporting, blogging, digital development, video journalism, copy editing, photojournalism, page design, prime magazine and cartoons and illustration.[3]

Location

The Daily Bruin office and newsroom is located in 118 Kerckhoff Hall.

History

Nomenclature

The Daily Bruin was preceded by the weekly Normal Outlook on the campus of UCLA's predecessor, the Los Angeles State Normal School, from 1910 through 1918 or 1919 (the records are incomplete).[4]:3–6

Upon the establishment in fall 1919 of the Southern Branch of the University of California, as UCLA was first known, the twice-weekly Cub Californian was first issued on Sept. 29, 1919. Its name was changed to the California Grizzly with the issue of March 21, 1924, and on September 13, 1925 it began to publish five days a week.[4]:7,17,19

On October 22, 1926, the newspaper became known as the California Daily Bruin.[5] During World War II it reduced its publication frequency to three times a week under the title California Bruin,[4]:66 reverting to a daily publication at war's end. On April 2, 1948, the name was changed to UCLA Daily Bruin.[4]:91, 92

Control

The newspaper has generally been under control of the student organization now known as the Associated Students of UCLA, or ASUCLA, although during the summer sessions of the 1920s and 1930s "the newspapers were used as laboratory papers for journalism classes, with financial support coming directly from the University." In the 1950s the Summer Bruin was again taken over by the Administration, and '"controversial social issues" were banned from print during the summers.[4]:128–129

Until 1955 the Associated Students was considered the publisher of the Daily Bruin, sometimes directly under the student council and sometimes with the interposition of a Publications Board. Editors were named by the student council. This system resulted in frequent political struggles between the staff (which nominated candidates for the key editorial positions) and the student council.[4]:50 and following

During the height of the McCarthy era, with the newspaper staff being accused of Communist leanings, the administration in 1955 revised the governance of the paper and instituted a system whereby the student body itself elected the editor (see below).[4]:144–145 "Editors had to run for elective office just like politicians, and the newspaper was closely controlled by the [student] Council," wrote William C. Ackerman, the ASUCLA graduate administrator.[6]

The practice of student election of editors ended in 1963 with the establishment of the ASUCLA Communications Board,[4]:150 a student-led organization that selects the editors of the Bruin as well as the editors for the other seven newsmagazines.[7]

'Hell's Bells'

In 1926, editor John F. Cohee was expelled from school by Ernest Carroll Moore, the campus administrator and director, for what Moore called "certain indecent statements which affront the good name of the women of the University." These were apparently a tongue-in-cheek "report" that some sorority women had been seen cavorting nude in the Pacific Ocean surf.[4]:25–32

This article was included in a twice-yearly burlesque edition of the Daily Bruin known as "Hell's Bells." (Cohee transferred to the Berkeley campus and was graduated there in 1927. He later went on to become a professional reporter.)[4]:25–32

Three years later Director Moore suspended 14 students for publishing in the January 23, 1929, issue of "Hell's Bells" "the filthiest and most indecent piece of printed matter that any of us has ever seen." Some of those students were later reinstated. That was the last issue of "Hell's Bells."[4]:25–32

1954 protest and student election of editors

On December 15, 1954, the editor of the Daily Bruin and a group of 250 students demonstrated against administrative action that required the newspaper to adopt a constitution "because it would otherwise be operating 'under sufferance and illegally.'" Dean of Student Milton E. Hahn had sent a memorandum to Chancellor Raymond B. Allen on Dec. 7. 1954, "after a preparation period of almost two years." He wrote:

For twenty years there has been no commonly accepted policy regarding the student publications at U.C.L.A. The Bruin has been the chief problem. It has been a prime target for Marxist groups which, at times, have had almost complete control.[4]:133

"We have gathered here for the mock funeral of The Daily Bruin as a free newspaper," said editor Martin McReynolds. "The Bruin is not actually dead yet, but on the students' action will depend whether it will live or die."[4]:133

The response was sparked by the actions of the UCLA administration in the preceding years. During the summer of 1954, Hahn proceeded in his attempt to bring about a more "responsible" Bruin. Eventually, on November 23, 1954, President Sproul granted approval by telegram for a new student-election plan for the Daily Bruin. The Bruin was not informed of any of the changes to the editorial structure, though editor McReynolds caught word of the plan and wrote an editorial on Dec. 8, stating that "Someone, probably the Administration, has been planning this change for at least six weeks. The planning has all been kept secret from The Daily Bruin and the students at large." December 8 was the same day Hahn submitted the plan to the Student Council.[4]:145

There were to be student elections for editor, who would name his own editorial board, subject to approval by the Student Council and veto by the Administration. Because of lack of time, elections would not be held in the spring semester, but an editorial board would be chosen by a two-man committee composed of Student Body President Skip Byrne and an Administration representative.[4]:145

In addition to this limitation, the plan required that:

A total of 3,004 signatures, representing one-fifth of the student body, were collected for a petition to be sent to Sproul to retract the plan. The number of signatures was about a thousand more than the number of student who voted in the preceding ASUCLA election.[4]:145–146

Loud Bark and Curious Eyes states that Sproul

. . . asserted in an unpublicized memo to Allen that it was a "local matter" for UCLA authorities alone to decide, though he did not mention the series of memoranda in the Berkeley office nor his own telegram of Nov. 23.[4]:146–147

The Bruin staff nominated six candidates to become editors the following year, but all six were rejected by the selection committee appointed to decide on the new editors.

New/Social Media

With the emergence and popularity of new media, the Daily Bruin has tried to increase its readership by creating a Facebook page, Twitter account, Flickr group, Livestream channel, Vimeo profile, and multiple YouTube channels. The paper has also created several blogs, including the very recent Mojo—"a mobile journalism platform designed for technology on-the-go... to capture news as it's happening."[8]

In 2013, the organization laid off most of its full-time employees, following more than a decade of consistently declining annual revenues.

Editors

1910-1966

NORMAL OUTLOOK

CUB CALIFORNIAN

CALIFORNIA GRIZZLY

BRUIN

1982 and after

Awards and recognition

2010

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

Notable alumni

Listed chronologically

If not cited here, references can be found within the articles.

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Daily Bruin About Page". Daily Bruin. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Sam Hoff appointed as 2015-2016 editor in chief of Daily Bruin," Daily Bruin, April 8, 2015
  3. ↑ April 2014 "Daily Bruin Recruitment Website" Check |url= value (help).
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Garrigues, George. Loud Bark and Curious Eyes: A History of the UCLA Daily Bruin, 1919–1955
  5. ↑ "This Month in History," UCLA History Project
  6. ↑ Ackerman, William C. (1969). My Fifty Year Love-in at UCLA. Los Angeles: Fashion Press. ISBN 978-0-86557-299-7.
  7. ↑ Filsuf,Darius (2005). "Daily Bruin". UCLA in the 1960s. Archived from the original on 2007-02-24. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  8. ↑ "Mojo >> About". The Daily Bruin. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  9. ↑ George Garrigues, Loud Bark and Curious Eyes, page 42
  10. ↑ George Garrigues, "Loud Bark and Curious Eyes," page 77
  11. ↑ Woo, Elaine. "Togo W. Tanaka dies at 93; journalist documented life at Manzanar internment camp", Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2009. Accessed July 7, 2009.

See also

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