Anthony Pesce

What conceivable security risk could have been in a portrait? UCLA has its own co-generation power plant. … That was the problem. The plant was visible. Apparently UCLA doesn’t allow anyone to publish pictures of power plant equipment (including the outside of the building), because if someone were to attack the university it would be an obvious target.

Last night we had an interesting meeting in the Daily Bruin newsroom about our election night coverage. I’m pretty excited because for the first time ever (now that I’m totally in charge) we’re going to be localizing our content. As News Editor, and now as Editor in Chief, I’ve had to battle an institutional attitude [...]

So I’ve had this blog for like three seconds and I’m already psyching myself out about writing in it. I periodically get ideas about posts that would be good, but I’m busy at the time and never write them and then all of a sudden the ideas aren’t timely any more and then I don’t [...]

I am officially the new Editor in Chief of the UCLA Daily Bruin. As editor, my first official interaction with a member of the public was to tell a person that we could not remove her quote from our online archive. The Bruin gets an astonishing number of these requests – two to three per [...]