UCLA swim and dive leaps into 2026 with win over Tulane, UC San Diego in quad-meet

Roster turnover is one of the few things guaranteed in college sports. And the Bruins lost substantial talent to graduation and the transfer portal after last season.

Senior Ciena Alipio leads with responsibility, anchors UCLA gymnastics amid change

There is far more room to fall than to grow when a team finishes one step from the top. UCLA gymnastics learned that reality quickly. After climbing from a 17th-place finish in 2024 to becoming national runners-up in 2025, the Bruins boast high expectations, especially the seniors.

North Westwood Neighborhood Council recap – Dec. 3

A Los Angeles Police Department officer told the North Westwood Neighborhood Council during its December meeting that they expect an uptick in package thefts during the holiday season.

Sprinkles Cupcakes closes all locations

The Sprinkles Cupcakes ATM at USC is no longer operational.

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UCLA women’s basketball dominates USC 80-46, breaks crosstown rivalry series tie

This post was updated Jan. 3 at 8:45 p.m. USC guard Londynn Jones had only started in two games this season – until Saturday night. Jones traded crosstown rivals following UCLA’s historic 2024-2025 March Madness run, when she left the Bruins to join the Trojans.

UCLA men’s basketball loses to Iowa 74-61 despite strong second-half effort

This post was updated Jan. 3 at 7:14 p.m. Too little, too late. Despite a miraculous second-half effort – which saw the Bruins cut the deficit from 24 to as little as four with 3:13 remaining in the contest – UCLA men’s basketball (10-4, 2-1 Big Ten) flatlined 74-61 to No.

UCLA gymnastics sticks the landing, wins Best of the West Quad with 196.975 mark

This post was updated Jan. 4 at 5:31 p.m. It may not have been an Olympic stage. But senior Jordan Chiles and freshman Tiana Sumanasekera – UCLA gymnastics’ two Olympians – stole the show at the Bruins’ first competition of the season.

UCLA women’s basketball to face crosstown rival USC in its 1st game of 2026

Rivalry games come down to passion and determination, often pushing aside a team’s success on the season. The Bruins are no exception to a rivalry upset.

‘Be steady and confident’: UCLA gymnastics to open season in Seattle

The clock hits midnight, and the ball drops. The new year brings a fresh start – and with it, the beginning of the 2026 women’s gymnastics season.

Parts of Wilshire Boulevard to close this week for LA Metro construction

Parts of Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood will close this week because of construction on a new Los Angeles Metro station. The westbound side of Wilshire Boulevard between Veteran Avenue and Westwood Boulevard will be blocked from 11 p.m.

UCLA swim and dive to face UCSD in first meet of 2026

New year, new beginnings. Still searching for a dual meet victory, UCLA swim and dive (0-1-1) will travel to La Jolla to face UC San Diego (5-0) Saturday in its first competition of 2026.

USC stunned by TCU in OT at Alamo Bowl

The Trojans’ defense fell off in their first appearance in the bowl.

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Beyond iconic films, Rob Reiner’s legacy extends to child wellness advocacy

This post was updated Jan. 2 at 12:42 p.m. Rob Reiner, a filmmaker, activist and former UCLA theater student, was found dead Dec. 14. He was 78.

UCLA women’s basketball beats Penn State in 3rd Big Ten game of the season

This post was updated Dec. 31 at 2:48 p.m. Wednesday’s matchup was advertised as a battle of the bigs. And although Lauren Betts and Gracie Merkle – preseason nominees for Center of the Year – lead their teams in scoring, roster depth tilted the tables in the Bruins’ favor. No.

Editorial Cartoon: “Foe in Friends’s Clothing”

UCLA gymnastics lineup predictions 2026

This post was updated Dec. 31 at 2:36 p.m. No. 4 UCLA gymnastics returns to competition after a historic 2025 run that culminated in its program-first Big Ten title and an NCAA championship runner-up finish.

USC football Defensive Coordinator D’Anton Lynn is leaving for Penn State

Lynn will not coach the Trojans in their Alamo Bowl match against TCU.

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Westwood Village kicks off the season with its annual holiday tree lighting

Westwood Village welcomed the community for its third annual Holiday Tree Lighting celebration at Broxton Plaza where attendees enjoyed live music, free hot cocoa, family-friendly crafts, activities, and snowfall to kick off the holiday season.

Former COC basketball player Donovan Chapman identified as I-5 crash victim

This just in from Canyon News. The person killed in a crash…

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Women’s water polo coach Adam Wright to step away from day-to-day duties

This post was updated Dec. 29 at 5:32 p.m. UCLA women’s water polo coach Adam Wright has stepped away from day-to-day operations of the program for the 2026 season, the university announced Monday. “I have been dealing with a lot of back and nerve pain for the last six-plus months,” Wright said in a written statement provided by the university.

UCLA women’s basketball fueled by second-chance points in victory over Ohio State

This post was updated Dec. 31 at 12:10 p.m. Under five seconds remained in the third quarter. Buckeye guard T’yana Todd knocked down a contested 3-pointer just as the shot clock struck zero.

UCLA women’s basketball to face Ohio State with same overall, conference records

Starting conference play on solid footing often sets the tone for a successful season. That opportunity awaits No. 4 UCLA women’s basketball (11-1, 1-0 Big Ten) when it travels to Columbus, Ohio, to face No.

UCLA rounds out coaching staff, hires Colin Hitschler as defensive coordinator

The newest Bruin coaching trio is complete. UCLA is reportedly finalizing a deal to make James Madison’s Colin Hitschler the school’s next defensive coordinator, per ESPN.

UCLA professor Mark Tramo’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein raise mixed student reactions

Recently publicized communications between a UCLA professor and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sparked varying levels of disapproval among students. Mark Tramo – an associate adjunct professor of neurology at UCLA – sent emails to Epstein in 2007 and 2018, according to Bloomberg and emails released by the United States House of Representatives’ House Oversight Committee.

Court tentatively rules in favor of UC administrators in lawsuit by UCLA lecturer

A Superior Court judge in Santa Monica tentatively ruled in favor of UC administrators in a lawsuit brought by a UCLA lecturer requesting more than $13 million in damages.

US Court of Appeals upholds UCLA’s lease with Department of Veterans Affairs

UCLA’s 10-acre lease with the Department of Veterans Affairs, which includes Jackie Robinson Stadium, was upheld by the United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit on Tuesday.

Evaluation shows some LAPD mental health protocols don’t support at risk people

Some law enforcement protocols for handling mental health crises are not effective in supporting people at risk, according to UCLA experts and a fall evaluation of LAPD from the city controller.

Bilodeau leads UCLA men’s basketball to 97-65 blowout win over UC Riverside

This post was updated Dec. 23 at 7:12 p.m. There are three guarantees in life. Death, taxes and Tyler Bilodeau. Over the Bruins’ last 45 games, there has been no one more reliable than the senior forward.

UCLA swim and dive ends year with inconsistent results at multiple invites

Inconsistency has prevented the Bruins from breaking into the upper echelon of the NCAA in recent years. And the start of the 2025-26 season has been no different.

UCLA men’s basketball prepares for UC Riverside game, final nonconference matchup

The opponent does not matter. In sports, but especially college basketball, it can be anyone’s night on any given day. And the Bruins saw that firsthand against the Mustangs Friday.

Quarterback Nico Iamaleava to return to UCLA football for 2026 season

He is back. Nico Iamaleava – one of the highest-ranked recruits to join the Bruins in program history – will return to UCLA for his redshirt junior season, he announced Monday evening via Instagram.

USC-Notre Dame rivalry game off the table for 2026

The two historic football programs have met in almost every season since 1926.

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Jordan Chiles leads seniors, refreshed gymnastics roster into 2026 season

Jordan Chiles brought the Bruin floor party to Dancing with the Stars this fall, capturing third place. Now, the two-time Olympian will dance alongside a new set of UCLA stars for her final hurrah in 2026.

Five Things: Analyzing coaching shakeups, roster changes and key returnees for UCLA football

This post was updated Dec. 23 at 1:45 p.m. While little has been confirmed since UCLA football head coach Bob Chesney’s introductory press conference on Dec.

UCLA women’s basketball submerges Long Beach State with 2nd triple-digit outing

This post was updated Dec. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Coach Cori Close preaches consistency as the standard for her team. Remaining consistent, though, is difficult to do when the bar is an 87-point victory.

Editorial Cartoon: “ugly Christmas sweaters in LA”

OPINION: Less Christmas media, less Christmas magic

December is well underway, and with it comes the holiday season in all its festive glory. Along with the typical Christmas customs, like decorating the tree and time with family,...

UCLA women’s basketball prepares for Long Beach State, final nonconference matchup

Nonconference play gives teams opportunities to see what works and what does not. And for the Bruins, lots has been successful. No. 4 UCLA women’s basketball (10-1, 1-0 Big Ten) will face Long Beach State (0-9, 0-2 Big West) on Saturday at Pauley Pavilion in its last nonconference game of the season.

UCLA men’s volleyball must pursue growth to win national championship again

Men’s volleyball is growing. Whether it be the addition of two new teams – Jessup University and UC Merced – to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in 2026 and another – Pacific – in 2027 or the expansion of the NCAA tournament from 10 to 12 teams, the sport has witnessed unprecedented growth in the last year.

UCLA men’s basketball bests Cal Poly with second-half surge, triple digit score

This post was updated Dec. 19 at 10:01 p.m. Buy games are supposed to be free wins. Goliath fills their early season schedule with what should be an uneventful win at home, and David gets a healthy sum of cash despite an all-but-guaranteed loss.

Dornsife groups advisers into three categories amid departmental reconstruction

In October, Dornsife laid off 162 employees, including academic support staff.

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UCLA men’s basketball to set season tone in Cal Poly contest

March Madness games are not won in early December. But teams can start building the form they want to reach come postseason. In Wednesday’s victory over the Sun Devils, the Bruins showed who they can be.

The year we stop pretending the industry has changed

Let’s be clear from the start: This isn’t a prediction. It’s a clinical diagnosis. In 2025, we got clarity — a sober look at how the industry would show up. We expected a breakthrough; we got a retreat on so many levels. So let’s name it: 2026 isn’t the year something changes. It’s the year...

Public media’s next act

Ten years ago, I left a dream job at NPR because I was worried about the public radio system’s digital transition — and whether it could survive as a publicly supported service in an increasingly partisan world. Today, the shit has hit the fan. The broadcast audience is shrinking. Membership is flat or falling. Sponsorship...

AI will force us to be more ambitious, more human storytellers

If you too have access to a Chartbeat, Parse.ly, or other dashboard tracking metrics across a media site this year, you have my condolences and solidarity. The data is grim. News is bleeding readers while the tech giants that had already taken away so much of our audience and control over our work come for...

If confusion is the commodity, certainty is the premium product

Ten years ago, I argued in a Nieman Lab prediction that we needed to demonstrate our care for our readers and journalism by implementing a much-needed layer of security to web content. The mission was to get to HTTPS everywhere, and to defend the digital pipeline that journalism’s audience depended on from tampering. We succeeded...

DEI dies in darkness, taking integrity with it

By the end of 2024, I knew my days as an editor-in-chief were likely numbered. Not because I was a poor performer, or because of any issue with my parent company. In fact, our relationship was, and still is, quite good. I’d been editor-in-chief for nearly four years at HuffPost and had a track record...

3 big risks catch up with some indie publishers in 2026

Our work delving into the businesses of independent news publishers through LION’s Sustainability Audits has given us a unique window into the operations of more than 500 newsrooms across the country. Each is trying to build a digital business around local news; some are rural, some are urban; some are relatively large with staffs up...

Newsrooms will embrace some AI-generated imagery

In the last weeks of 2025, as I write this prediction, my social media feeds are awash with a new set of pronouncements about the death of photographic truth. As a historian of photography, I’m familiar with obituaries of this sort, which tend to circulate in popular media at moments when new photographic or image-editing...

Crowdsourced accountability reporting shines a brighter light on Big Tech

I predict an uptick in crowdsourcing-based investigations, especially for tech accountability. As access to official APIs and research agreements decreases, crowdsourcing emerges out of necessity. Newsrooms such as ProPublica and Correctiv have had teams specializing in engagement reporting and crowdsourcing for years now. Reporters have built browser extensions, set up nationally representative user panels, and...

AI breaks the hamster wheel of journalism

The hamster wheel has been a defining metaphor for what it’s like to work in contemporary journalism: an experience marked by relentless motion but often too little progress to show for it. In 2026, the wheel may finally start to fall apart — and, if so, generative AI will be responsible. The hamster wheel metaphor...

The “HBO of podcasting” finally emerges

For the past few years, podcasting (at least backstage) has been in a bit of a rut. The audience keeps growing, people are listening longer, and many creators are making great work. But the business side has felt stalled. The industry remains tethered to an ad-heavy model that frustrates buyers, sellers, and creators in equal...

Exiled journalism’s biggest threat is something more mundane than censorship

In the summer of 2021, when our newsroom in Afghanistan was forced to leave the country urgently and resettle across the United States and Canada, I believed that moving to free societies would bring safety and stability. I assumed that once we escaped censorship, repression, and direct threats, our journalism could continue under normal conditions....

Want loyalty? Investing in hard-to-reach audiences will be the key

For more than a decade, the news industry has chased scale: bigger audiences, more pageviews, broader appeal. We’ve often heard: focus on the journalism first, and the audience will follow. I’ve never believed that, and in 2026, I think the industry will finally be forced to reckon with how wrong that assumption is. The future...

We can’t build the future of journalism while losing the people who build It

Earlier this year, at a national conference on the future of journalism in Canada, a few newsroom leaders and I found ourselves finally relaxed enough to speak honestly. One leader looked around the bar and said, “Sometimes I just want to work on a ferry.” Another laughed and said, “Honestly? I just want to work...

The year of the network

Independent, nonprofit news organizations will increasingly link up in 2026 to reap the benefits of a tried and tested legacy media structure: the network. One of the great stories in journalism over the last decade has been the remarkable rise in independent and nonprofit newsrooms. Here’s one measure: membership in the Institute for Nonprofit News...

Placemaking will become a priority (again) for local/regional media

Local/regional media can’t be just about “news.” My prediction…my hope…my challenge to the industry…is that media organizations will spend time in 2026 considering how they perpetually challenge themselves to ensure that place is at the center of their work. How place was centered in my experience of local media growing up When I was a...

Young journalists force the industry to change — whether it’s ready or not

For years, the news industry has talked about Gen Z: their shifting habits, their distrust of institutions, their preference for short-form content, and their disappearing attention spans. But in 2026, the conversation will flip. Young journalists will no longer be defined by how they consume news. They will be defined by how they create it....

They’re not coming

They’re not coming. We’ve waited, we’ve gotten our hopes up…but they’re not coming. The inspirational elected officials, billionaires with promises of integrity, high-minded philanthropic organizations, all the institutions that were built to hold the high ground, to protect us and to even save us…are not coming. (And many of them are likely the cause of...

Migrant joy as an act of resistance

2025 has been a year of throwing our arms up while the rollercoaster shakes us from side to side. The uphill climb feels slow, intimidating, painful; the drops are worse — short, devastating, fast, dangerous. No truce, just exhaustion. Sometimes we want to stop the world and get off, but adrenaline — and that passion...

Journalism will ask better questions and listen to different answers

Who are you listening to? What did you learn? Why is it important to the person who is reading this? Why are you even here? My biggest prediction for 2026 is journalism needs to answer these (among other) questions. In public. With the people they use as subjects and claim as audience. Journalism isn’t listening...

A year for revolutionary journalism

My prediction as we head into a year marking a consequential milestone for the country is that, in the spirit of our founders, journalism must be revolutionary — but we must now tell the whole story. America was founded 250 years ago on ideals that were bold, unfinished, and disruptive by design. The National Association...

Journalists talk about the elephant in the room: our relationship with Big Tech

“Journalists are souring on social media platforms”, wrote Jacob L. Nelson and Gregory P. Perreault in a recent article on changes in Nieman Lab predictions over time. While early predictions “placed a great deal of faith in social media platforms to aid journalists in their mission to monetize and engage with audiences,” the authors say,...

Local newsrooms will play more

Too many journalists still debate who “counts” while dismissing creators who’ve earned trust through presence, not bylines. Meanwhile, the data is out: 40% of people avoid the news because it’s a bummer. But when one journalist speaks up about play, it inspires another and another, as my recent post about playful local journalism proved. Play...

Forget “Google Zero.” We need to talk about “People Zero.”

Your carefully curated homepage is invisible. Your design choices don’t matter. Your branding gets reduced to a small icon or a parenthetical citation in a chatbot’s answer — if you’re lucky to be cited at all. Pageview-based ad revenue collapses, along with your affiliate clicks. Email subscriptions stagnate with no new people seeing your sign-up...

Social media’s decline is journalism’s hope

It’s ugly out there: At a time when over 50% of Americans get their news from social media like YouTube, Facebook, or TikTok, the very same platforms get flooded by generative AI slop, increasingly creating an experience that feels like a fever dream. Personal posts and news are sandwiched in between genAI babies talking to...

Vibe coding to empower communities

As much as we dwell on the threats and menace, we’ve incorporated generative AI in most of our workflows and processes by now: as a copy editor, a SEO specialist, a research assistant, a confidante or whatever we’ve seen fit — in function and ethics — when it comes to admin or craft. We’ve adapted...

The future of news is people, bots, and the avatars we trust

Like many of us in the news business of this century, after a short-lived halcyon era of digital “innovation” where we gained new audiences that we didn’t own, I’ve been turning over in my mind what I see as the “future of news.” For the last quarter-century, our job in one way or another has...

The newsroom becomes a commons

In 2026, the newsroom becomes a commons. For 117 years, the New York Amsterdam News, just steps from the Apollo Theater, has anchored Harlem. As the city’s oldest Black-owned newspaper, it has long covered “the news that mainstream media just doesn’t.” Since Covid, most of its staff works remotely, but the building still tells stories:...

Taking bias seriously

“Why does the country think you’re biased?” In her first few days as editor-in-chief of CBS News, Bari Weiss asked this very question of 60 Minutes senior staff members. The question “was met,” according to reporting from The New York Times, “with stunned awkwardness.” Yet what is truly stunning is that this question isn’t being...

UCLA men’s soccer sees three players selected in MLS SuperDraft

Three members of UCLA men’s soccer were selected in the second round of the MLS SuperDraft on Thursday. Junior defender Tre Wright was drafted 33rd overall by Real Salt Lake, graduate student defender Schinieder Mimy was drafted 38th by the New England Revolution and senior midfielder Tarun Karumanchi was drafted 49th by the Columbus Crew.

OPINION: Where did all the whimsy go?

Upon the release of “Wicked: For Good,” I noticed two things; Elphaba was always too good for Oz and people hate fun. When any highly anticipated movie comes out, the...

OPINION: ‘Zootopia 2,’ a refreshing social commentary returning to children’s animation

This Thanksgiving weekend, audiences returned to the world of Zootopia with its sequel, released by Disney, after waiting almost a decade since the first release in 2014. This return to...

A reckoning comes for journalism philanthropy

For decades, philanthropy has reinforced a media landscape that favors the biggest (and whitest) news organizations, whether they be nonprofit, for-profit, or startups, while chronically underinvesting in ethnic and community media. I predict that 2026 will see one or more failures of newsrooms conceived of or propped up by funders, forcing a reckoning about how...

A renaissance for structured journalism

For all the anxiety over how AI will upend journalism as we know it, I continue to believe its best immediate uses in our profession remain exceedingly mundane. Among them, extracting structured data from unstructured text: identifying people, places, and events buried in articles; applying metadata and complex taxonomies that reporters and editors don’t have...

Coming up, in the next season of “Journalism”

Long-time fans thought the show was ending, but “Journalism” is back for another season, and we can’t wait to find out what the writers have in store for us. What started as a tidy sitcom has morphed into an epic drama that includes dark satire, political thrillers and more recently, sci-fi elements of unreliable narrators....

Data needs to drive conversations, not division

In the post‑pandemic news cycle, it became easy to treat charts as a kind of journalistic spell: visualize the data and legitimacy will follow. But the flood of partisan “stat dumps” has trained plenty of people to see numbers as just another weapon in a never-ending culture war. In 2026, the task for data journalism...

The fence is down

This year, more than 165 journalists were assaulted in the United States. That’s more than the last two years combined. Only 10 of those assaults were not by law enforcement, and a staggering 88% came while journalists reported from protests related to the Trump administration’s immigration policies. The Trump administration also persists with its multifaceted...

Newsrooms will reckon with AI slop

The AI sloppification of the internet is well underway. And while it was easy to laugh at Shrimp Jesus and Challah Horse, the ubiquity of AI-generated content presents new challenges for newsrooms. I’m not talking about Google’s AI overviews choking publishers’ search traffic into a doomsday “Google Zero” scenario, worrying though that is. I’m talking...

AI isn’t the threat anymore. Avoiding it is.

The industry is already using AI to sharpen headlines, spot SEO trends, moderate commenting, and draft news quizzes. Next year, the shift will accelerate: reporters and editors won’t just be allowed to toy with AI — they’ll be expected to rely on it to enhance reporting and editing. By 2026, AI will no longer be...

From both-sidesism to backbone

Few institutions are singled out in the U.S. Constitution. The press is one of them. Given that the founders enshrined our industry in the First Amendment, you’d expect journalists to stand tall not just for our corner of the document, but for the full scope of what it protects. Instead, fear of appearing biased, a...

We stop chasing chaos

This isn’t as much as a prediction for 2026 as it is my hope: that the media will not be so entranced by President Trump’s compulsion to dominate every news cycle and instead focus limited resources on stories that matter, stories that hold the powerful accountable, and stories that help people make the best decisions...

AI makes human journalists more important than ever

As The Daily Memphian enters its eighth year since launch, we continue to see that the most engaged, most impactful and most read stories we produce are the stories with the greatest impact and relevance to the people that live here. It sounds a little trite. But it’s true. True whether we’re putting a spotlight...

Coalition – not consolidation – is the key to independent media’s survival

Media consolidation is nothing new. The late-2010s and early-pandemic years were a period of massive scale for the digital and legacy media industry, with many players filling out their portfolios in hopes of going public. We all know what happened next: sold assets, slimmer portfolios, and a cycle of seemingly, never-ending layoffs. But against all...

Disruption? You ain’t seen nothing

2026 will make the last tumultuous decades in journalism look tranquil by comparison. Layered atop the strata of technological, economic and consumer consumption transformations that have challenged both the business and the practice of journalism, the second year of Donald Trump’s second term and the acceleration of the proliferation, adoption, and distribution of AI “slop”...

Rise of the vibecoding journalists

In 2025, advances in AI-powered code generation led to the ability to “vibe code,” i.e. create apps through prompting without even looking at the code. These vibe-coding tools lowered the cost and technical expertise required to build prototypes. After spending a year building media tools with LLMs, I predicted more dynamic and interactive interfaces for...

Taking journalism down to its studs

In 2025, the cracks in our shared reality metastasized into chasms. Communities are experiencing one reality, while institutions describe another. The mechanisms that once bridged the gap like trusted institutions, reliable data, and moderated platforms have collapsed or been dismantled. As a result, people increasingly trust only what they can see and who they know...

2026 is a call for clarity

Five years ago, the refrain I kept hearing was, “I just can’t look at it anymore.” News was leaving audiences feeling more wrung out than empowered. Today, that’s become background noise as a new chorus takes hold: “I just don’t know what to believe.” The media environment is leaving people more disoriented than informed. As...

Audiences will increasingly direct news coverage — for better and for worse

The shattering of mass media into niche channels is nearly complete. For the first time in 2025, more people in the U.S. accessed news through social media text and videos than through TV or news websites, according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. These new outlets are usually run by individuals or...

More organizing in the new, weird media landscape

In the last century, journalists labored mightily to unionize the print media industry–along the way, turning their raffish profession into an (almost) middle class job. Then the internet was invented. Print media declined and online media rose. For the past decade, online media journalists have unionized their industry as well. Unfortunately, tech platforms have perfected...

Newsrooms reckon with how collective identities have changed

In 2026, American journalism institutions must proactively set strategies to protect themselves against the crossing of key red lines in media that will be extraordinarily difficult (e.g., taking multiple decades) to undo once crossed. Organizations such as the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Committee to Protect Journalists continue to provide rapid...

Cultural fluency is the strongest currency for media in 2026

Legacy institutions have spent decades treating cultural fluency as optional. In 2026, it will define survival. This year, as legacy news outlets slashed diversity teams, eliminated community beats, and gutted cultural coverage, they undermined the very asset that determines relevance in today’s fragmented media environment: cultural fluency. These cuts were framed as cost-saving measures, but...

AI will rewrite the architecture of the newsroom

When I testified before a House of Commons committee in the Canadian Parliament recently about AI’s impact on journalism, I described three shifts that are quietly reshaping the news industry. Those three shifts form the basis of my 2026 outlook. Let me contextualize them. The first shift is that people are no longer just reading...

The return of the media brand

For almost 20 years, publishers have optimized for distribution and monetization. In 2026, the focus shifts to something more foundational: brand. Over the last few years, publishers have watched their major distribution partners, first social and now search, become volatile and unreliable. Constant shifts have weakened the relationship between publishers and the platforms that once...

Podcasts can save public media (seriously)

Public media outlets entered 2025 on a wave of unease between declining on-air audience, waning underwriting revenue, post-election news fatigue, and the looming uncertainty about federal funding. The latter sadly became a reality on July 18 when Congress voted to claw back $1.1 billion in public media funding, leaving NPR, PBS, and more than 400...

Independent publishers set the agenda

In 2026, journalism will lean even more toward independent publishing, with small outlets like The Preamble and individual, seasoned journalists using platforms such as Substack and social media to set the agenda rather than react to it. This shift will not replace legacy media, but meaningfully erode its gatekeeping power and push the industry toward...

The diploma divide continues to grow

In 2026, the diploma divide between how people with limited formal education and those with higher levels of formal education engage with news and orient themselves in public life will continue to grow in many countries. There has long been profound social inequality in how well news has served different parts of the public, and...

The DEI whiplash continues

There’s no real way to get around the fact that 2025 was a very rough year for those championing diversity, equity, belonging and inclusion. And many of us thought 2020 was the most taxing in a long while. But amid the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic back in 2020, many of us from historically marginalized...

Big Tech needs us more than we need them

In the early 20th century, Karl Marx argued that power flows from owning the means of production — the stuff you need to make things, like land and factories and tools. This is no longer the case. Now, in the digital age, influence and wealth flow to the people who own the means of distribution...

We’ll stop worrying and learn to love the misinformation bomb

2026 will be the year that we stop worrying and learn to love the misinformation bomb. We will end our pious incantations about post-truth and halt the witchfinder searches for inaccuracy, bias, and offense. The problem is not fake news, it’s that no one believes — or rather listens, and pays attention — to liberal...

Journalism actually shows up

Steve Jobs used to say that a brand is like a bank account. When you build trust through quality work, you’re making deposits in the value of your brand, while negative experiences with your creations are withdrawals. If your balance gets too low, you’re done for. In so much of our industry, we’ve spent years...

Media companies will find opportunity and threat in AI

The defining theme of 2026 will be how media companies respond to AI — both the opportunities and the disruptive threats. Opportunities 1. Increased newsroom efficiency by transforming how journalism is packaged together — text, photography, video, graphics, related stories — moving from multiple teams to a bilateral relationship between reporter and editor, with the...

Surfacing deserving stories to share becomes easier

Now that we know audiences don’t want to hear the “democracy is in distress” mantra but clamor for local news, our industry will embrace tools that help amplify the impact of beat reporters. This is the year — overdue — when news organizations will prioritize community over competition and cooperate more effectively. Some regional alliances...

Dent bounces back with 20 points in UCLA men’s basketball’s win over Arizona State

This post was updated Dec. 17 at 11 p.m. News of Mick Cronin’s summer contract extension was met with mixed reactions Sunday morning. UCLA’s loss to Gonzaga on Saturday – which knocked Cronin’s team from the top 25 – evoked the coach’s previous March shortfalls and was yet another example of the Bruins failing to live up to their No.

Senior leadership propels Saugus Girls Basketball to a strong start

At Saugus High School, the girls’ basketball team is off to a…

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The growth hackers come to your town

Local news is a tough racket. When I tried to buy a newspaper this year, my friends in the industry feared for my sanity. Even Perplexity cautioned me that it was a high-risk, low-reward investment. Then why is there a gold rush of independent local newsletters flooding the market? I talked to a few entrepreneurs...

The year news and product teams actually work together

In 2026, news organizations will finally — finally — unlock the true value of product skill sets, thinking, and people in order to build products and experiences that truly and deeply connect to their audiences. With the ongoing disruption of generative AI and the “platform reset” of social media, search, and aggregators already underway, this...

Public media will stop acting like a legacy airline

My first reporting job in public media was as the Central Oregon correspondent for Oregon Public Broadcasting, based in Bend — a city that proudly claims to be the largest in the U.S. more than 100 miles from an interstate highway. I covered the concerns of rural Oregonians, from the tensions around “backyard burning” of...

Rethinking the news experience

Audiences following the news closely are disappearing and news avoidance keeps rising, but when I try to be optimistic, I think maybe 2026 will be the year the industry turns things around by taking seriously what digital technologies make it easy to forget. News is not merely the business of producing and distributing journalism; it...

Journalism can learn from the Southern reproductive justice movement

Forecasting has never felt spiritually aligned for me — too much grasping for control, too much pretending the future can be summoned on demand. As a Quaker, I trust the slow revelation that comes from silent collective listening and action. I’ve spent the last seven months in a front-row seat to the decades-long fight for...

The Global North learns coping skills from the Global South

As 2025 comes to an end, we look back in search of clarity, a pattern, a sign, a hint of hope for 2026. We’ve all been somewhat thrown off balance, collectively and individually, this year. Yet once again, we’re still standing. Journalism is still alive, and its professionals continue to put their whole selves on...

Charting a path out of the slop bucket

Forgive me if you’ve heard this one before: News organizations have a difficult relationship with social media. For more than a decade now, we’ve been trying to chart the right path to survive in an ecosystem where reader attention is dominated by a handful of Big Tech apps. We’ve pivoted to video, pivoted back again,...

Local news learns to love the arts again

Local arts and culture coverage as we’ve known it is all but non-existent in local news platforms. It was among the first topics on the chopping block amid consolidation and “vulture capitalization” of local news in the early days of digital. It was in need of innovation, to be sure, but it was cut before...

We’ll realize there’s no political journalism without tech journalism

Of the ten richest men in the world on Forbes’ December 2025 list, only two didn’t build their fortunes by running or founding a fully tech-driven company. They are the people who now shape how we think, how we have fun, how we vote, how the economy works, and ultimately whether the world moves forward...

Finding a candle in the dark

Predicting the future of journalism with any precision may be a fool’s errand, though the broad — and mostly bleak — contours are obvious enough: local news will still face collapse; public trust will continue to buckle under the twin pressures of social media brain rot and partisan echo chambers masquerading as “news.” AI experimentation...

The creator infrastructure gap will define journalism’s next chapter

In the last three months, I’ve had a nearly identical conversation over and over — with aggregators, with media companies, with funders, with tech platforms. They’re all asking the same question: “How do we work with journalism creators?” None of them have frameworks. None of them have discovery tools. None of them have standards for...

Cis journalists stop putting trans people’s existence up for debate

Just over two-thirds of Americans say they don’t personally know a trans person. I couldn’t stop thinking about that statistic throughout the past year, witnessing the escalation of efforts to push trans people out of public life under a federal government employing executive orders and court decisions to further marginalize trans people from accessing various...

Shame will haunt New York Times leadership

Except for an occasional opinion piece, The New York Times has gone out of its way to avoid using the word “genocide” when referring to Gaza — even as human rights organizations, U.N. bodies, parliaments, and scholars increasingly do so. The New York Times is the paper of record. U.S. policy and politicians, from mayors...

News creators help publishers get back in the ring

Very early lessons in boxing include learning a basic stance, step-drag footwork, proper punching form, and blocking for defense. It also involves quickly reading what sorts of punches are being thrown at you. Let’s count the punches that journalism took this year. The first is that while generative AI innovation moved at a blinding pace...

A civic revival begins locally

In 2026, journalists will stop wringing our hands about disengagement and news exhaustion — and start focusing on serving the audience that is already here, begging for the work we alone can do. We call the people we’re talking about “civic catalysts,” and we learned about them last year, when Civic News Company conducted a...

The fight for independence

As we enter 2026, journalism stands at one of the more precarious crossroads in modern history. The past year witnessed historic media consolidation and unprecedented legislative and executive hostility in the U.S., making the simple act of reporting the news a liability. Add this to the long line of woe brought about by years of...

The year we all algorithm-proof our audiences

At Capital B’s all-staff summit earlier this year, I led a brainstorm asking our team to consider a potential extinction-level scenario: What would we do if, tomorrow, search and social media ceased to exist? What would we need to have in place to make sure people could still find our work? The question sounds hyperbolic...

The year we band together and fight back

Teaching a media law and ethics class in America today is to constantly explain to your students that while something may be well-established as illegal in decades of case law, it is nevertheless happening to journalists across the country as we speak. I want to tell them that in 2026 journalists will band together and...

Protecting immigrant journalists has to be an industry-wide priority

It is no secret that both immigrants and journalists are under attack. Immigrant journalists face the double threat of trying to stay safe while running headlong into unsafe situations in order to do their jobs, and increasingly, a press pass or vest does little to prevent direct attacks or even arrest. However dangerous the circumstances...

We address the cracks in our foundation

I’m sitting you down and asking you to draft a definition of “news in the public interest.” How long do you think you would need? And how confident in your answer would feel? Or, if I came to you, despondent and unsure what might make news essential, or even useful (I have been there!). Where...

The AI winners will recognize that knowledge needs humans

In January 2026, Wikipedia will turn 25 years old, a reminder that one of the internet’s most‑visited sites began as an experiment many experts assumed would fail. It grew from a simple idea to more than 65 million articles in over 300 languages not by ignoring criticism, but by listening: adding quality controls, building policies,...

A tech company will claim to have achieved AGI. The news media won’t be ready.

It’s gonna happen. Sometime in the next year, an executive from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or Meta will be standing on a brightly lit stage, in front of a screen full of benchmark scores, and claim that their latest AI model is proof that they have achieved Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). I fear that the news...

News organizations will solidify their moats — and build their bridges

The information landscape is changing once again: generative AI is transforming our relationship to data, discoverability, and content generation; social video and creator economies are reminding me of the early days of blogging; and we’re even rethinking hardware, with voice, AI, and AR interfaces in our glasses, homes, and wrists. Right now, news organizations are...

How to slay a Trojan Horse

A source tipped us off to something strange: a campaign called KICLEI was flooding city councillor inboxes across Canada with slick, professional-sounding messages urging municipalities to abandon their climate commitments. It posed as environmental wisdom, but it was a Trojan Horse designed to undermine municipal climate policy. Before, we would have investigated one city and...

The war on the press escalates

The media has been Donald Trump’s favorite scapegoat for a decade now, and as the president confronts the return of political gravity and the inevitable weakening of his hold on power, he will lash out — and no better target than journalists. Some of these attacks will be familiar: We’ve seen how litigation warfare can...

Reporters will have to cultivate trust the old-school way

If the currency of good journalism is sustained access, the gold standard of that access is trust. And two years into this chaotic and manipulative news environment, in 2026, we will have to go back to fundamental journalistic practices to rebuild trust-based relationships, the kind that yield news stories that topple corruption, erode secrecy, protect...

Journalism is in danger of bending itself around AI

There’s a popular myth that journalism has missed out on the last waves of technological change because it was too slow or too ignorant. The fear of disruption still looms large in an industry increasingly dependent on and battered by a handful of tech companies. Reality, of course, is more complex and messy. Media companies...

We’ve been serving the wrong audience

The Olivia Nuzzi/RFK Jr. and Michael Wolff/Jeffrey Epstein scandals weren’t just breaches of journalism ethics — they were a mirror held up to something most of us already know, but don’t want to admit: We’ve gotten too close to the people we cover. I get how it happens. When you’re covering the same beat for...

AI will reinvent local news

In 2026, I sense something unusual is happening: two seemingly unrelated trends are converging in ways that could remake the field from both above and within. Part 1: AI will try to save local news because it has no other choice To state the obvious: AI models can only remain accurate if they ingest a...

Journalism education will reflect student conviction

For decades, journalism education has reinvented itself to comport with technological transformation. From converged newsrooms to digital-first publishing, each successive generation of newsroom innovation has forced concurrent shifts in how we prepare students for journalism industry careers. Change has been constant. Yet across the two decades that I’ve worked in journalism schools, the current cohort...

Canyons senior Isaac Yuhico excelling in leadership and versatile play

Senior guard Isaac Yuhico has stepped into one of the most demanding…

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Jacob’s Wake-Up Call: Men’s water polo has potential to 3-peat with resilience, adaptability

Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Thrice is a pattern. But what does it mean when it happens 14 times? That is the number of national championships UCLA men’s water polo has won, which accounts for over 10% of UCLA’s 125 NCAA titles.

Women’s basketball dominates Cal Poly in first triple-digit victory of the season

This post was updated Dec. 16 at 9:48 p.m. The rotation had been complete enough for the Bruins to win. But it still had not been fully complete.

UCLA men’s basketball to start 3-game homestand with matchup against Arizona State

Saturday’s loss to then-No. 8 Gonzaga came down to failing to follow the scouting report. At least, that was coach Mick Cronin and his squad’s verdict.

Five Things: UCLA men’s basketball vs. Gonzaga

This post was updated Dec. 16 at 8:21 p.m. The Bruins’ 2025-26 campaign took another hit. Then-No.25 UCLA men’s basketball (7-3, 2-0 Big Ten) fell to its second-ranked team of the season, losing 82-72 to then-No.

COC 7 ft star Craig Irons game reaches new heights

Growing up in a sporty family, Craig Irons always had an instinct…

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Opinion: Campuses should cultivate culture of open dialogue, discussions with disagreement

My heart started racing the moment they passed me the microphone. It was a class seminar on the current political landscape of 2024. It was my third year at UCLA.

Laura Abrams announced as next dean of Social Work school

Vassilios Papadopoulos has served as the interim dean for the school since 2022.

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Jayden Maiava will return for last year of eligibility

Maiava earned significant NFL Draft buzz after throwing for 3,431 passing yards, the most in the Big Ten, and 23 touchdowns.

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Protesters deliver a list of demands to the hands of the mayor

A group of protesters gathered on Saturday at Liberty Park on Wilshire Boulevard to deliver a list of demands to Mayor Karen Bass. About 30 protesters marched from the park...

REVIEW: ‘FNAF 2’ delivers what fans have been waiting for

Scott Cawthon is back at it again with a sequel to “Five Nights at Freddy’s” – only this time, more friends have come out to play. “Five Nights at Freddy’s...

Journalism establishes a physical presence

We sped the industry up so fast that we left people behind. Speed made sense for a long time. Journalism is built on getting scoops, breaking news, being first, the first draft of history. Then digital publishing offered more space, more platforms, more stories, more measurable clicks. That velocity helped grow an audience, but it...

Newsrooms build the muscle to survive many futures at once

In the coming year, the newsrooms that thrive won’t be the ones chasing the next platform change, algorithm tweak, or business model that might save us. They will be the ones preparing for multiple realities at once, with focus, steadiness, and a plan. My prediction is simple: Scenario planning — done consistently, cross-functionally and proactively...

The rise of the throwaway news app

Permit me to make a very big deal out of a very, very small slice of the history of journalism. In the mid-2000s, when newspapers were still quite large and fully panicking about what to do about the digital product, a movement formed around what ended up being called news apps. Now, young reader, today...

Collaboration becomes civic memory

I’ve spent a fair amount of 2025 toggling between my parents’ MyChart accounts. From scheduling appointments to reviewing test results, I — and their doctors — have a one-stop shop for managing their various healthcare needs. A hematologist can request lab work, and a gastroenterologist can review the data before recommending a medication or procedure....

Journalism will break from the hero narrative

Journalism must embrace complexity to have an abundant future. Our information infrastructure is built on the volcanoes of capitalism — a system that demands flattening, that rewards the derivative, that incentivizes stories designed to polarize rather than illuminate. This flattening doesn’t just distort our work; it enables erasure and makes authoritarianism’s job easier. Authoritarianism thrives...

Google will look beyond volume journalism

The Google ecosystem’s supply-demand dynamics are shifting faster than newsrooms can adapt. For a decade, Google rewarded volume. Newsrooms chased a few trends, often drifting off-brand for traffic. The strategy: publish many “good enough” stories targeting single keywords. A few hits subsidized the misses; volume signaled authority. Improved retrieval technology strains this model. Google now...

Everyone is a journal-ish

With the social media era behind us, tech-oligarchs want us to believe the future of everything is AI. For journalism, it means that avatars will report the news, generated by AI models, trained on the combined labor of every journalist, editor, and newsroom that’s ever posted online. Accuracy is traded for speed, where fast news...

The gap between nonprofit and for-profit local news will widen

In the last year, I’ve had a chance to participate in some groups that mix two different tribes: nonprofit and for-profit local news publishers. We certainly agree on a lot: the struggles we all have in local news, a deep belief in the importance of the work we do, the need for all of us...

Why creator-journalists, not brands, will get invited to the party

Riddle me this: Who does the audience follow when the journalist walks out the brand’s door? When Dave Jorgenson left The Washington Post to launch LNI Media, the Post’s YouTube saw a massive drop in views. Jorgenson’s departure and its consequences were no fluke; they are the canary in the coal mine. It illustrates a...

Every media business becomes an events business

The feed is overfed. People want to gather. Everyone (journalists, creators, brands) is getting better at creating content (articles, videos, posts) of all kinds (news, entertainment, advertisements). All this before you consider generative slop filling the cracks. Attention is not enough. Media companies of all sizes need to build worlds. This means an increased appetite...

Journalism realizes it has a business talent problem

A few years ago, I was given some advice I resented: You need a business partner. Once I cooled off, I realized that counsel, which arrived in a LION sustainability audit, was wise if difficult to achieve. Try finding a grant for a business partner. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Not getting “operational” money is, of...

Local news starts becoming local infrastructure

In September 2006, Adrian Holovaty published a groundbreaking essay about the fundamental assumption of what local news should be — structured information “that can be sliced-and-diced, in an automated fashion, by computers” instead of “a big blob of text that has no chance of being repurposed.” Holovaty imagined a world where a story about a...

The pedestal we’ve placed “journalism” on will crumble. And that’s brilliant.

As is the case with, I imagine, most people reading these words, I’ve dedicated most of my career to the idea of “journalism.” I still identify as a “journalist,” even if the actual days I spent navigating sources are so far away, I’ve almost forgotten how damn difficult the work is. I know plenty about...

Creator partnerships are ripe for opportunities, if newsrooms do the work

The data has been conclusive this year: A fifth of U.S. adults now regularly get news on TikTok, up from 3% in 2020. This increases to 43% in adults under 30. Much of this news is being disseminated via creators without a journalism background. There is no singular phrase for this type of creator, though...

The year AI companies pay for the value of publishing

Twenty-twenty-six will be the year that one of the AI search companies builds into their model a genuinely fair exchange of value with the publishing industry. Right now, AI search is mostly extractive. The bots scrape the sites and answer search queries inside a box that users never leave. In rare, but positive, circumstances, the...

The press realizes where it’s failed and starts to change

What follows is less a prediction than a hope: that the press will begin in the next year to finally recognize the true nature of its failure and begin to change the nature of the journalism it offers the public. The most common explanation for the crisis in journalism is that the advertising revenue that...

Journalists will start asking the right questions

When I talk to journalists, including ones just entering the field, many say the same thing about why they got into the business: “I want to tell stories.” If that is the case, I can recommend a nice MFA program. But journalism? Journalism is something different entirely. We are here to serve, not to be...

Journalism producers will (re)see their product as a business

Journalism has always been a business. But as the public continues to broaden the mix of methods and sources they turn to for news information (podcaster, creator-style journalists, social networks and more), it is essential that journalists who wish to be a part of that mix execute strong business strategies. The era of legacy gatekeepers...

Publishers will see no meaningful AI licensing revenue

Publishers have been waiting for another round of licensing deals with artificial intelligence companies. The first few agreements were small but encouraging. They suggested the industry might finally get paid for the journalism that underpins so much of the output of AI large language models. That optimism won’t survive 2026. As long as Google’s search...

Publishers leave the dead malls of Web 2.0

There’s nothing left for you in the dead malls of Web 2.0. The era of mass platform-based social media has ended, and any publication still chasing likes and clicks in 2026 is holding the bag. This means publications need to work harder than ever to define their identities and become destinations that readers remember to...

“Show your work” makes a triumphant return

Next year will herald the return of open source culture in newsrooms. But first, some history: In the spring of 2008, I was working at ProPublica. It was a month or two before we launched. A colleague and I had lunch with Aron Pilhofer, head of a new interactive technology team at The New York...

Journalism becomes a house of commons

Our starting point: Let’s agree that journalism is not content. It’s not a product. It’s not an export. It’s a shared resource. Treat it that way and everything changes. The idea of a journalism commons is not new (certainly not to Nieman Lab predictions), nor is it a metaphor; it’s a tried-and-trusted, locally owned governance...

Local investigative reporting will make money again

Everyone knows the eulogy: Information deserts. Hollowed newsrooms. “Benevolent” billionaire owners. Fickle non-profit donors. All leading to the ceaseless shuttering of local and regional newsrooms across the country. And it’s true. In many ways, local investigative journalism — the kind that takes time, costs money, has uncertain outcomes, and can truly make an impact —...

The year journalists abandon the press conference

2026 will be the year when journalists finally realize that being in the room is not where news happens. Sure, à la Hamilton the musical, lots of back-room deals happen in quiet, private spaces of power — but journalists generally aren’t in those rooms. Instead, journalists go to press conferences and public meetings — and...

The AI winners won’t be the biggest newsrooms

Transcript: If leveraged effectively, AI provides small indie media outlets with a significant competitive advantage, especially hyper-local publications serving niche communities. That’s my 2026 prediction for the future of journalism. If used thoughtfully, transparently, and always with human oversight, AI can help local outlets survive, innovate, and sustain themselves. Hi, I’m Anita Lee. I’m the...

Information germ theory

You walk into the doctor with a cold. They prescribe an X-ray. You walk in with a headache. X-ray. Need glasses? X-ray. Depressed? X-ray. Imagine every time you went to the doctor, no matter what was wrong, you got the same treatment — and most times, it did nothing. Or worse, it caused more harm....

Please learn how to use your computer

We’ve spent years talking about how AI is transforming journalism. As I write this, I’ve already counted at least nine Nieman predictions this year that talk about AI. I think we’d see a much more substantive transformation in journalism if we started by simply learning how to use our computers. After more than three years...

Local news embraces its consumer product role

My work in local news over the last 25 years or so has roughly coincided with the field’s long-term structural decline, which is why the recent groundswell of philanthropic support and community focus on rebuilding what we’ve lost has been so gratifying to me. But in our renewed efforts to irrigate news deserts and save...

Editors will start tackling the 5% challenge — and it won’t be fun

The advances of generative AI have put those in charge of newsrooms on an emotional rollercoaster. While 2023 and 2024 were the years of reckless experimentation (“Hey, look what these models can do!”), in 2025, AI realism took over. Great ideas turned out to be hard to implement, costly, or solutions looking for problems (“Nice,...

Exiled media will leave grant dependency behind

In 2026, exiled media outlets will overhaul their business models, leaving behind grant dependency and moving toward diversified schemes that include products and services that their audiences — especially readers in the diaspora — are willing to pay for. This year began with a shock: the funding freeze of U.S. international cooperation and the dismantling...

Santa Clarita celebrates 5th annual Christmas Tree Lighting at the Cube

There was some incredible holiday spirit at the Cube this past Friday,…

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UCLA gymnastics debuts routines, showcases positive atmosphere at Meet the Bruins

After a second-place run and significant roster turnover, the question remains: Who will rise to the occasion? For the Bruins, the answer is simple – everyone.

Q&A: UCLA gymnastics coach Janelle McDonald discusses new season lineups, team dynamics

As the 2026 season approaches, UCLA gymnastics coach Janelle McDonald sat down with members of the Daily Bruin gymnastics beat to discuss the state of the program and its goals for the year ahead.

USC stars Ja’Kobi Lane, Kamari Ramsey declare for NFL Draft

Neither will play in USC’s upcoming bowl game, alongside eight other notable players, Head Coach Lincoln Riley announced Monday.

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Wakefield Winter Wonderland returns, brightening the Christmas spirit

The holidays are here, and Wakefield Winter Wonderland is back, lighting up…

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Opinion: Memories may fade, but the feelings they give shape identity

Nostalgia feels like a constant companion as a fourth-year student. College will soon be over, and I will begin the next chapter of my life. As a kid, everything felt endless, but with each passing year, the last times have become clearer to me.

Men’s basketball plagued with injuries

Head Coach Eric Musselman said he may look to add a player mid-season, though he did not specify how.

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