New Media Events:
The J-School hosts numerous public events of interest to students and the general public. The events listed below are of particular interest to students in our program. Use the "Events View" picklist below to see events associated with other programs. See also: J-School Events (full listing).
- Feb
- 06-30
- 2008
- Combating the Participation Gap: Why New Media Literacy Matters
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Henry Jenkins, Co-Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, will discuss curricular materials and activities being developed by MIT's Project nml to support the teaching of these new social skills and cultural competencies.
- Nov
- 07
- 2007
- There You Go Again: Orwell Comes to America
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There You Go Again: Orwell Comes to America invites historians, linguists, journalists, government officials, and political consultants to assess the state of public discourse and journalism's response to it one year before the presidential election.
To register: www.thereyougoagain.org
- Oct
- 04
- 2007
- Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
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CNN senior legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin discusses The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, in conversation with UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Professor Cynthia Gorney.
- Oct
- 17
- 2007
- The 21st Century Family
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A panel discussion was held on October 17, 2007 to celebrate Greater Good's Fall 2007 issue on "The 21st Century Family." The panel featured family experts discussing how the American family is changing, and how it can still thrive during this period of transition.
- Apr
- 21
- 2007
- Turning Journalism into History
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David Halberstam will talk about the crafts of both journalism and history and what it means to turn journalistic reporting into a work of history.
- Mar
- 12-05
- 2007
- Writing for the Greater Good: Celebrating the New Issue of Greater Good Magazine
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Join us for a panel discussion to celebrate the latest issue of Greater Good, the acclaimed new magazine based at UC Berkeley. The panel will feature the magazine's editors and contributors, including legendary psychologist Philip Zimbardo and New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer Ted Jackson.
- Jan
- 11
- 2007
- News War
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Two veteran journalists will examine the forces challenging the news media today and the press reaction. Lowell Bergman and Steve Talbot trace the recent history of American journalism, from the Nixon administration's attacks on the media to the post-Watergate popularity of the press to the challenges and opportunities in new media.
- Feb
- 06
- 2007
- The View From Abroad: Is America Broken?
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This event is SOLD OUT. If you do not have a ticket, please join us in Room 145 Dwinelle Hall to view a live video feed of this event.
John Micklethwait, the newly appointed Editor-in-chief of The Economist, talks with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, about the
- Dec
- 10-13
- 2006
- Winter New Media Lecture Series (December 2006)
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Featured speakers are Howard Rheingold, "Smart Mobs" author; Travis Fox, Washington Post; Robert Hood, msnbc.com; Al Bonner, Lawrence.com;
Seth Gitner, Roanoke Times; Seth Familian, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business; Joe Howry, Bruce McLean, Colleen Cason and Tom Kisken, Ventura County S
- Nov
- 09-07
- 2006
- Kevin Sites: Conflict Journalism in the Digital Age
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Kevin Sites of Yahoo! News will discuss his solo journalism approach to
digital story-telling. Sites is Yahoo!'s first news correspondent, covering a number of major global conflicts for "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone" on Yahoo! News in the last year.
- Nov
- 15
- 2006
- The New Yorker College Tour
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The New Yorker College Tour stops at the University of California November 13th to 15th. The tour will feature in-classroom visits by New Yorker staff writers and New Yorker Editor David Remnick: free daytime, on-campus lectures, and evening entertainment.
- Nov
- 13
- 2006
- How The New Yorker Covers The World
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David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker talks with Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism.
- Jan
- 25
- 2007
- Manifesto for Change
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Geneva Overholser, who holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism, has spent more than a year examining the future of journalism and produced, "A Manifesto for Change." She will discuss her findings during this event.
- Nov
- 14-09
- 2006
- GMOs and the Law
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Please join us for a talk by Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer who battled Monsanto all the way to the Supreme Court, followed by a conversation with Professor Michael Pollan, Ignacio Chapela and Schmeiser.
- Nov
- 09
- 2006
- Nation Writers on the State of the Nation
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Meet a panel of writers from The Nation, one of America's oldest and most critical non-mainstream magazines.
Featuring:
Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation environmental correspondent;
Lakshmi Chaudhry, The Nation Institute Writing Fellow;
Tom Hayden, The Nation editorial board
- Oct
- 04
- 2006
- Ethics and Journalism: Should We Trust the Media?
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The New York Alumni Committee, of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism Felker Magazine Program, helped bring together the sponsors and speakers in this important conversation about the current state of the media. The event honors Clay Felker, the founder of New York magazine and one of the
- May
- 21-24
- 2006
- Summer New Media Lecture Series (May 2006)
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The Graduate School of Journalism presents the Summer 2006 New Media Lecture Series featuring top reporters, editors and executives at online newsrooms around the country discussing topics in online publishing and digital storytelling.
- Mar
- 23
- 2006
- The Writer in the Digital Age
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Challenges to writers: rapid technology change and the radical upheaval in publishing. Union initiatives to protect and advance writers' jobs and incomes and to defend writers' rights.
- Mar
- 21
- 2006
- Elizabeth Kolbert on Global Warming
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New Yorker Staff Writer Elizabeth Kolbert will talk about global
warming and how the issue now is not whether it's happening, but
whether its effects on the environment can ever be reversed. She will also discuss her new book Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Cha
- Apr
- 01-31
- 2006
- Watching Guadalcanal Village
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In keeping with its mission of providing access to contemporary water-related materials, the Water Resources Center Archives (WRCA) is presenting an exhibit of color photographs of a Northern California wetlands restoration site near Vallejo.
- Apr
- 30
- 2004
- Revisiting Virtual Communities
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A panel discussion with Criag Newmark of craigslist, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of the Daily Kos Weblog, Mark Pincus of Tribe Networks and Susan Mernit of the Navigating the Info Jungle Weblog on how the Internet is changing social interaction and political activism.
- Sep
- 29
- 2008
- New York Times Ideas Issue 2009
- New York Times Magazine Senior Editor Alex Star visits the J-School to discuss pitches for the publication's annual "ideas" issue.
- Nov
- 06
- 2008
- Mission Loc@l Kickoff Party
- Students and staff of Mission Loc@l, the j-school's new hyper-local news site made possible by a grant from the Ford Foundation.
- May
- 19-23
- 2003
- Multimedia Reporting & Convergence Workshop II
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Featuring sessions on weblogging, charging for content, dayparting, putting multimedia into practice, and more.
- Sep
- 29-01
- 2009
- UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit
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The UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit, an invitation-only conference sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism and Haas School of Business.