About Bella
Bella Arnold is a journalist, writer and editor. Over the summer, she interned at Vulture. Everyday, she wrote stories about internet culture, the entertainment industry, music, and pop culture. Her most viewed story was about allegations against Miranda Sings, which was the #1 story on Vulture’s website for over a week. Her favorite stories to do are about interesting people doing weird, funny things. She’s working on a story about a Black Sabbath cover band that dresses and McDonald’s characters called Mac Sabbath, at the moment for KALX. Currently, she is studying audio journalism and narrative writing at UC Berkeley’s graduate school of journalism, being advised by Shereen Marisol Meraji and Jennifer Kahn. During her time at Berkeley, she’s also worked as a data reporter for the California Reporting Project through the Investigative Reporting Program, investigating police use-of-force in California with Lisa Pickoff-White and Phoebe Leila Barghouty. Her research has been published in LAist and Mercury News. In May 2022, she graduated magna cum laude from California State University, Long Beach where she received her B.A. in journalism with a minor in creative writing. While at CSULB, she was editor-in-chief of DIG Magazine, an award winning student run publication at CSULB. As an EdSource fellow, she reported on higher education. Story topics ranged from food insecurity to cannabis research, and much more. Bella was the first EdSource intern to share a byline with a full-time reporter, Betty Marquez Rosales.