{"id":256242,"date":"2026-04-07T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256242\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:09:10","slug":"swasti-singhai-to-serve-as-next-editor-in-chief-of-the-daily-californian-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256242\/","title":{"rendered":"Swasti Singhai to serve as next editor in chief of The Daily Californian | Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swasti Singhai, campus junior majoring in chemistry and legal studies, was elected editor in chief of The Daily Californian for the 2026-27 academic year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Singhai joined the Daily Cal\u2019s news department the summer before her freshman year and has since reported on city government and law and justice topics. Some of her most notable stories include coverage of student visa terminations<\/a> and #Justice4Ivonne<\/a> \u2014 a movement demanding the reinstatement of UC Berkeley professor Ivonne del Valle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Singhai has also served as a city news editor, senior editorial board member and development manager. Outside of the Daily Cal, Singhai also interned for the Times of San Diego, where she reported on immigration issues<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Singhai said she hopes to emphasize \u201cmaking sure our coverage is fair and \u2026 actually depicting the community we live in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do a lot of great work here, and I also hope we can do a great job at reaching people that this work impacts and supports,\u201d Singhai said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Singhai\u2019s term will involve navigating the Daily Cal\u2019s financial stressors, which she aims to address through expanding the paper\u2019s membership program to citywide readers and hosting journalism workshops and classes for a fee. Plans for broadening the Daily Cal\u2019s digital presence are also in the works, including developing an app with breaking news push alerts and creating more multimedia content.<\/p>\n

Singhai and Daily Cal CEO Monica Lam have collaborated on Daily Cal fundraising campaigns in the past, including the Ink Bowl and the 155-for-155 campaign. Lam said the hallmarks of a good editor in chief are having an editorial vision, as well as skills in business and management.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think (Singhai) has both sets of skills,\u201d Lam said. \u201cShe has both editorial chops, and she also has organizational and management chops. She\u2019s done a lot of interesting, original reporting of her own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Singhai also hopes to create a legal department within the Daily Cal, noting that the paper has been receiving more retraction and anonymity requests, partly due to fears of visa revocation or deportation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, we want people to feel supported,\u201d Singhai said. \u201cHaving this additional resource is something I care a lot about, especially seeing these retraction requests and how we\u2019ve had to respond to them over the past year and a half.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Current Daily Cal managing editor Chrissa Olson\u00a0said she could think of \u201cno better person to be in this position\u201d than Singhai.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think (the paper) point-blank needs a good leader and someone who is fair and kind and is also just really smart,\u201d Olson said. \u201cSomebody who is well-versed in the business and editorial side, who can take on these financial challenges, is something that the paper will need, and I think she has that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swasti Singhai, campus junior majoring in chemistry and legal studies, was elected editor in chief of The Daily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[113351,86529,143,145,144,21008,23221,113352,149],"class_list":{"0":"post-256242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-chrissa-olson","9":"tag-daily-cal","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-headlines","12":"tag-oakland-news","13":"tag-swasti-singhai","14":"tag-the-daily-californian","15":"tag-times-of-san-diego","16":"tag-uc-berkeley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}