Independent, student-run news source for the University of California, San Diego.
San Diego, CA
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Founded in 2015, The Triton is a digital-first publication created by three disgruntled undergraduates who saw a gap in the information distributed to students, faculty, and staff. While The Daily Californian at UC Berkeley and The Daily Bruin at UCLA each had a staff of hundreds and reach thousands of students daily, no UC San Diego newspaper of a similar scale has existed to cover on campus issues, events, and research.
Since 2015, our staff has grown from an initial three to 60 in 2018. Our coverage has been cited by The New York Times, Quartz, The Union Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Vice News, The Daily Californian, The Daily Bruin, ABC 10, NBC 7, and Voice of San Diego. In addition to these accomplishments, campus writing courses now use our opinion and news articles as course reference material.
A college newspaper should, like all newspapers, aim to represent its student body and provide a diverse set of voices. A 2015 survey by the American Society of News Editors places the percentage of “minority” journalists at around 12.76 percent. As of 2018, a majority of our staff are women of color. In addition to this, our staff does not just have students who study literature or political science, but also students who study engineering or are pre-med.
Student journalism means holding administrators accountable, having an open conversation about the state of our campus, and rooting out the truth to the best of our ability. For as long as The Triton is around, that’s what we’re going to do.
