Blog: Brenden Tuccinardi named editor in chief for 2020-21

by Bella Ross, Editor in Chief • April 8, 2020

Brenden Tuccinardi will serve as The Daily Aztec’s editor in chief for the 2020-2021 school year.

Brenden Tuccinardi, a former engagement editor for The Daily Aztec, has been named editor in chief for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Since Fall 2017, Tuccinardi has contributed to the newspaper as a staff writer in the arts and news sections.

He started this school year as the newspaper’s engagement editor, where he coordinated the publication’s social media accounts, including the development of our own TikTok. For the spring semester, Tuccinardi studied abroad in Singapore until he was forced to return as a result of the current pandemic. While abroad, he reported on coronavirus for The Daily Aztec as an international correspondent.

Tuccinardi is currently a junior at San Diego State, where he studies advertising within the journalism major and has a minor in interdisciplinary studies. After graduation, he hopes to pursue a career in digital journalism.

The Daily Aztec will soon begin hiring section editors for the 2020-21 school year. For more information, email current editor in chief Bella Ross at editor@thedailyaztec.com.

About the Contributor

Bella Ross, Editor in Chief

Bella Ross is an SDSU senior double majoring in journalism and political science. She started working at The Daily Aztec in the news section in Fall 2017 and started to make videos for the newspaper in the Spring. She also works as an intern for Voice of San Diego and does some freelance work. In the past, she's worked at KPBS, inewsource and The San Diego Union-Tribune. She is hoping to report on national politics for a large newspaper one day. Follow her on Twitter @BellaMayaRoss.