UC Berkeley Journalism - Events

We host public events with distinguished speakers from the media, politics, business and other fields. You can receive event notifications by mailing list, RSS feed, or iCal.

Many school-sponsored events are also webcast as streaming video, either live or as video archives. All events with associated video are listed on the Webcasts page. Currently featured: Jack Hitt: The Art of the Query and Mao's Revolution: What Remains.

Some J-School-sponsored events can also be viewed at UCTV (Real video format).

Many J-School-sponsored events are also available at webcast.berkeley.edu.

Conferences at the J-School

The Graduate School of Journalism occassionally hosts multi-day conferences on topics of interest to working journalists.

ASNE Institute 2006

June 11-23, 2006. High school teachers from across the nation participate in a two-week summer journalism training program sponsored by the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the J-School.

ASNE Institute 2005

June 5-17, 2005. High school teachers from across the nation participate in a two-week summer journalism training program sponsored by the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the J-School.

Covering the World:
The Logistics and Challenges of International Reporting

Saturday, April 30, 2005: A skills-based, hands-on day of panels and workshops, this conference will cover -- across all media -- everything from how to plan an overseas project, who to talk to when on the ground, how to protect yourself and your sources, how to report in war zones and remote places, how to find a story in the ordinary, how to write the story once you're back, and more.

ASNE Institute 2004

June 13-25, 2004. Thirty-three high school teachers from across the nation participate in a two-week summer journalism training program sponsored by the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the J-School.

China's Digital Future

April 30 - May 1, 2004. China is experiencing a digital revolution. ICTs are already altering the course of China's ongoing social and economic reforms. But the long-term impact of the Internet on the Chinese government, people, society and culture is not yet clear.

Documentary Today

April 3, 2004. Topic is the State of the Art in documentary filmmaking. Co-sponsored with the Film Arts Foundation.

Media at War

March 16 - 18, 2004. Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, Christiane Amanpour of CNN, Judith Miller of The New York Times and Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV join 50 other journalists and foreign policy experts at the UC Berkeley campus for three days of panels, lectures and discussions on the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Covering Infectious Disease

Sept. 29 - October 3, 2003. Health journalists from around the country gathered to discuss issues related to international health coverage.

Multimedia Reporting & Convergence Workshop #2

May 19-23, 2003. Topics covered include charging for content, the daily routine of Internet users, and putting multimedia into practice.

New Media Conference 2003

March 28-29, 2003. This year's conference focused on how young people have become the driving force in the adoption of digital technology and the Internet and how their habits are reshaping the media industry.

Multimedia Reporting & Convergence Workshop #1

March 23-29, 2003. Topics covered include weblogs and journalism, wireless networking, and online publishing trends.

Food and the Environment

September 22-26, 2002. The costs, benefits, and consequences of modern food production.

New Media Conference 2001

April 6-7, 2001. In the year since our last conference the new media publishing industry has been hit by waves of layoffs, cutbacks, bankruptcies and uncertainty over the future of online publishing. And a broad range of problems concerning privacy, intellectual property and professional standards pose new threats to media companies.

New Media Conference 1999

March 10, 1999. "From the Medium to the Message"

New Media Conference 1998

April 23, 1998. A transcript of an April 23, 1998 new media conference sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, the Committee of Concerned Journalists and the Knight Fellowship Program at Stanford University.