Last month, the Daily Californian honored Berkeley Scanner founder Emilie Raguso with its “Friend of the Year” award as part of their annual Hall of Fame event. Introducing Raguso, Anna Armstrong described her as a role model for students, “showing the value of and leading boots on the ground journalism.”
In her acceptance speech, Raguso shared reflections on reporting on Berkeley, after graduating from UC Berkeley’s journalism school 20 years earlier, and her approach to building community trust at The Scanner.
Listen to their speeches below. Apologies: The audio quality is limited. A transcription of Raguso’s remarks, with minor edits, appears below.
The Berkeley Scanner ยท Daily Cal: Friend of the Year award
When I learned about this honor, I was really proud to be described as a role model. I was also described as a “sometimes friendly competitor,” and I wasn’t sure if that meant that we sometimes competed, or that I was only friendly sometimes. I’m here, so I guess it all worked out…