Daily Cal Alumni

Sarita Henderson (pictured, top left) was the first woman to be named editor of The Daily Californian. Marguerite Higgins (pictured, top right) was a well-known war correspondent; she covered World War II, and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. She shared a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1951 with five other reporters.

– "Women to Head Editorial Staff of Campus Paper"

Joan Didion’s fiction and non-fiction writing have won her international acclaim and the National Book Award for Nonfiction among many other honors.

– Daily Californian Fashion Edition: "It's A Woman's World," co-edited by Joan Didion.

Jann Wenner founded Rolling Stone magazine and co-founded the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

– Doin' The Thing: "Queen Harold's Trousers"

Margaret Talbot is an essayist and a staff writer at The New Yorker. She has published two books and has also written for The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic Monthly.

– "Dalai Lama Visits Berkeley Campus"

Ellen Nakashima writes for The Washington Post. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 and 2018.

– "Waterfront Plan Uses Sierra Club Ideas"

Max Boot is a well-known conservative columnist who has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The Christian Science Monitor, among others; he has also published six books.

– Dateline Berkeley - "My Fan Mail"

Darrin Bell won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. His strip, “Candorville,” appears in over 100 American newspapers and grew out of a Daily Californian comic strip called “Lemont Brown.”

– "Lemont Brown"

Noah Berger was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2019.

– "Eight Test Fates Against Country's Best"

"In accordance with Daily Californian tradition, departing editors sign their names on the inside of old desk drawers during a "desk-signing" ceremony. See also the Daily Cal's 150th anniversary website.