have you been thinking about coming to the 2025 DBAN reunion? now’s the time to RSVP!
This year's reunion is only a month away! It will feature a day full of activities, including alumni and student panels, a visit to the Daily Bruin newsroom in Kerckhoff Hall and a cocktail reception followed by dinner at the James West Alumni Center.
Reconnect with old friends, reminisce about your time at the Daily Bruin and celebrate the legacy of student journalism. Don't miss out on this opportunity to forge new connections and strengthen the bonds of the DBAN community.
Please consider sponsoring a current Daily Bruin student by buying a second ticket (or one if you are not attending yourself). Just indicate that you’re sponsoring a ticket as you check out. Use the blue “register today” button below.
Daytime Activities ONLY — Free
Evening Cocktail Party and Dinner ONLY — $75
Daytime Activities AND Evening Cocktail Party and Dinner — $75
daily bruin staffers reaching the pinnacles of success
The College Media Association has nominated the Daily Bruin for more than two dozen awards. The CMA Pinnacles recognize outstanding work from newspapers across the country. The Daily Bruin is also one of five finalists for Weekly Newspaper of the Year for the 10,000+ enrollment category! Winners will be announced in October.
Here's the list of finalists from DB for the 2024-2025 year:
Profile Story: PRIME: After the Fire by Sam Mulick, Daily Bruin senior staff (now a DBAN member at the Beverly Press)
The Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will honor Lex Wang, the Daily Bruin’s editor in chief for the 2024-25 school year, at its upcoming banquet on Oct. 22. She’ll be one of nine honorees. Every year, SPJ/LA recognizes two college students (one from a two-year institution, another from a four-year university) who show promise as emerging journalists. Get tickets here to support Lex at this event!
2025 alumni of the year
The Daily Bruin Alumni Network is delighted to announce our 2025 Alumni of the Year: Lawrence Ma '95 and Tanner Walters '18, who started DBAN in 2018.
Under their leadership, DBAN has expanded dramatically, held enthusiastically attended reunions every year (even during the pandemic!), awarded scholarships to more than 40 students, helped found three endowments that will sponsor students in perpetuity, created programs to mentor current Daily Bruin students, connected current and graduating students to internships and their first jobs in journalism, and led DBAN to be recognized as the best UCLA Alumni Network of the year.
We are thrilled to honor these two powerhouse leaders at our reunion on Saturday, Oct. 11.
alumni who write
Two DBAN members have written new books.
Jane Rosenberg LaForge ’83 is coming out with her fifth full-length collection of poetry, "The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated." It will be published by Broadstone Media in October. Liz Marlow, the editor of Minyan: A Literary Magazine in Support of the Jewish Community, says the poems "(echo) back to Robert Lowell" through "captivating narrative poems." She will also be reading at Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles' premiere venue for reading poetry, on Jan. 24 at 2 p.m.
A new hybrid fiction book, "The Last Magi" by Geoffrey D. Chin '85, is available now on Amazon and is only 99 cents on Kindle. It’s an action adventure and spiritual fiction set in New York City and Israel. A mysterious traveler seeks the Christ child 2,000 years after his birth. With government agents hot on his trail, the traveler desperately seeks to complete his mission on earth. Chin operates a law firm in Pasadena, California, with a focus on estate planning, trusts, wills and probate law.
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