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''The Daily Californian'' (or ''Daily Cal'') is an independent, student-run newspaper that serves the University of California, Berkeley campus and its surrounding community. It publishes a print edition Monday through Friday during the academic year, and twice a week during the summer, and an online edition every day. Established in 1871, ''The Daily Californian'' is one of the oldest newspapers on the West Coast, and one of the oldest college newspapers in the United States. Current circulation is about 10,000 for a campus of roughly 35,000 students. ==History== ''The Daily Californian'' became independent from UC Berkeley in 1971 after the campus administration fired three senior editors over an editorial that encouraged readers to "take back" People's Park. Both sides came to an agreement, and ''The Daily Californian'' gained financial and editorial independence from the university and is now published by an independent corporation called the Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company, Inc. The paper licenses its name from the Regents of the University of California. In the fall of 1971, ''The Daily Californian'' moved to a second floor office on the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Channing Way in Berkeley. ''The Daily Californian'' moved to two other offices, one on Shattuck Square and on Dwight Way. These moves, while necessary for the financial success of the newspaper, began to erode the student foundation that ran the newspaper. Forced to move due to the planned demolition of Eshleman Hall (and its sixth floor office), the Daily Cal moved editorial and business operations to a new office at 2483 Hearst Ave. The move to the new location was made possible in part by a $2.25 million donation from Daily Cal alumna Liz Simons through the Heising-Simons Foundation, which allowed the university to purchase the building for the paper. On November 24, 1982, three days after the November 20th Big Game (now known for The Play), early morning readers of the ''Daily Cal'' were chagrined to find in the headline of the front page: "NCAA Awards Big Game to Stanford." Hundreds of copies of the ''Daily Cal'' with this fake headline had been strewn about campus in the wee hours. This was in fact a hoax perpetrated by aggrieved Stanford fans. A newspaper run completely by students worked very well, but financial and management problems dampened the first decade of ''The Daily Californians independence. In the early 1980s, ''The Daily Californian'' was forced to take on loans, including one from UC Berkeley's student government, the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC). In the early 1990s, hard times and a series of financial mismanagements forced the newspaper to only publish three days a week, which made national news. With the great support of then Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, ''The Daily Californian'' secured a new office in the 6th floor of Eshleman Hall on the south side of campus. This office space had also housed the newspaper from 1965 to 1971. It was during the early 1990s that ''The Daily Californian'' also began to tap its growing group of proud and successful alumni. The Daily Californian Alumni Association was founded. ''The Daily Californian'' has a history of publishing spirited editorials, and in some cases editions containing controversial editorials have been subjected to newspaper theft. In 2002, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates agreed to pay restitution after admitting to having thrown away a thousand copies of ''The Daily Californian'' after it endorsed his opponent, then-Mayor Shirley Dean. In May 2003, nearly 5,000 papers were stolen by students protesting coverage of the arrest of a Cal football player. The largest act of theft took place in November 1996 when the paper's senior editorial board endorsed Proposition 209.〔Jim Herron Zamora (Daily Cal's 23,000 copies disappear after angry call ) San Francisco Examiner. Published on November 6, 1996.〕 Nearly 23,000 papers were stolen on Election Day 1996,〔Elaine Herscher (Daily Cal Stolen Off Racks -- Prop. 209 Cited ) San Francisco Chronicle. Published on November 6, 1996.〕 and in the following days copies of the paper were tossed off the balcony of the newspaper's office and burned in effigy. On October 16, 2006, the ''Daily Cal'' launched its first blog, The Daily Clog. The Clog is a student-life blog that accumulates various tidbits about Berkeley and college life. It focuses on the UC campus, the city of Berkeley and Berkeley's online community. That year, the ''Daily Cal'' also recorded its first podcast and began text polling. Since then, ''The Daily Californian'' has added eight new blogs on topics ranging from Travel to an Editors' Blog. On August 25, 2008, the ''Daily Cal'' announced that it would not print a paper version of the newspaper on Wednesdays amidst a decline in advertising revenues and higher newspaper costs. However, it will have an online version of the paper on Wednesdays. ''The Daily Californian'' is an affiliate of UWIRE,〔() 〕 which distributes and promotes its content to their network. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Daily Californian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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