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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).

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Feb
06-30
2008
Combating the Participation Gap: Why New Media Literacy Matters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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)

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

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

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

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

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

Featuring sessions on weblogging, charging for content, dayparting, putting multimedia into practice, and more.

Sep
29-01
2009
UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit

The UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit, an invitation-only conference sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism and Haas School of Business.