The Daily Californian | 4,520 followers on LinkedIn. The Daily Californian is an independent, student-run newspaper and the paper of record for the city of Berkeley. | The Daily Californian is an independent, student-run newspaper serving the UC Berkeley campus and the Berkeley, CA community. It publishes Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday during the academic year and once a week during the summer. Established in 1871, The Daily Californian is one of the oldest newspapers on the West Coast and one of the oldest college newspapers in the country.