Press Pass: Daily Bruin Sports covers National Signing Day

Editor’s note: Sports Editor Claire Fahy details Daily Bruin Sports marathon coverage of National Signing Day. 5:30 a.m. I make it a habit not to get up before the sun. In fact, I’m morally opposed to rising at this hour. But alas, here we go. Seeing as I went to bed at midnight with the […]

Press Pass: Daily Bruin basketball squad still searching for that winning path

Editor’s note: This week’s Sports on the Quad post is about the ups and downs of the Daily Bruin’s intramural basketball team. There are, unfortunately, more downs than ups. The mood entering Sunday’s prime time intramural basketball matchup at Pauley Pavilion was hopefully optimistic. The mood leaving it, not as much. The mercy rule ended […]

More pros than cons – reflections on covering UCLA football

Editor’s note: With the college football season now over, Sports Editor Claire Fahy reflects on covering the popular sport from the sidelines as a student journalist rubbing shoulders with veteran beat reporters. I remember everything about my first day on the football beat. I can tell you what I wore (blue and red flannel, Daily […]

Press Pass: Editors’ New Year’s Resolutions

Winter quarter felt like it began yesterday, but Week 2 is already here. Regardless, we asked several Daily Bruin editors what their New Year’s resolutions were, whether they be for their personal lives or Daily Bruin-related. “Ensure that Sbarro’s is the top-grossing Ackerman [Union] food option.” – Ryan Nelson, opinion editor “Get all the rare […]

Welcome to Press Pass

Here’s one phrase you’ll never hear someone say in the Daily Bruin offices at Kerckhoff 118: “I absolutely love working in a windowless office.” However, you’ll often hear our office filled with laughter, intermixed voices from various meetings, vociferous debates over the quality of Justin Bieber’s new album, and the occasional “Slack me.” The Daily […]