Linda Schact Gage, Class of 1966
Linda Schact Gage, ‘66, a two-time Emmy-award winning reporter, has been on the Daily Cal board for twelve years. First on KQED’s nightly news show, Newsroom, and then at KPIX in San Francisco, she’s reported on major stories, including national political campaigns and conventions, the 1984 Mexico City earthquake, the Patty Hearst trial, the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, and the opening of the Berlin Wall. Her reporting is featured in the films “Milk” and “The Life and Times of Harvey Milk.”
For many years, she taught at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. She continues to write scripts for television and documentary films.
Though she never worked at the Daily Californian during her years at Cal, she has served on the board and as President of the Daily Californian Education Foundation since 2016. Linda’s father, Henry Schacht, was a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle and a broadcaster on NBC radio. He was Editor in Chief of The Daily Californian in 1938, and she serves on the Daily Cal board to honor him.