Lecturer Jobs – Summer 2025

The Journalism School offers summer classes only during in the two following sessions:

  • Session A — Tuesday, May 27, 2025 to Thursday July 3.

  • Session D — Monday, July 7, 2025 to Thursday Aug 14.

All classes are scheduled for two hours per day Mon–Wed and 1.5 hours on Thursday. No classes on Friday.

Most classes (unless listed otherwise as in-person) are taught online using Zoom and teaching can be done remotely. However, all employees must be based in the United States to work for the university.

J39 Fresh/Soph Seminar: Foundations & Practice of Journalism

Class time/format: In-Person
Jul 7 – Aug 15 | MTWTh 10:00am – 11:59am
 
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
 

J100 Introduction to News Reporting

Class time/format: Online
Jul 7 – Aug 15 |  MTWTh 10:00am – 11:59am
 
This is an intensive introduction to the principles, practices, and fundamentals of what it means to be a journalist. Students will learn classic forms of reporting and news writing—including learning how to conduct interviews, gather information, and write quickly, concisely and accurately in a style that engages mass audiences. Students will meet professional practitioners and newsmakers, and will examine ethical issues that may arise in reporting, verifying and publishing information.
 

J110 Introduction to Multimedia Storytelling

Class time/format: Online & In-Person
Online Jul 7 – Aug 15 |  MTWTh 2:00pm – 3:59pm
In-Person Jul 7 – Aug 15 | MTWTh 2:00pm – 3:59pm
 
Competence in the use of new media tools is essential for any communicator in the 21st century. This intensive introductory course teaches foundational skills for understanding multimedia and creating multimedia news packages. The course consists of lectures, guest-speakers, seminar-style discussions and lots of hands-on instruction: in video, photojournalism, audio, data and other elements that go into the creation of effective visual multimedia stories. No equipment is required; student smartphones will be their primary news gathering tool.
 

J111 Social Media Verification & Engagement

Class time/format: Online
Jul 7 – Aug 15 | MTWTh 12:00pm – 1:59pm
 
Social media has entered a new age of relevance, making it of critical interest to journalists and communicators of all kinds. This course will help students better understand and use social media by focusing on how social networks, conversational media, and associated digital media tools and platforms can be used to develop new sources, converse with end users, identify new ideas and emerging trends, aggregate and curate the work of others, and promote their own work.
 

J120 Digital Research & Investigative Journalism 

Class time/format: Online
May 27 – Jul 3 | MTWTh 2:00pm – 3:59pm
 
Whether it’s matters of national security, public health, or official misconduct, investigative reporters play a crucial role in a democracy, exposing events, realities and conditions that powerful interests would often prefer kept quiet. The best investigative reporters – such as Woodward and Bernstein, Seymour Hersh, Glenn Greenwald – change the way we think about the world.
 

J130 Special Topics

Topic may include: AI & Journalism; Misinformation

Class time/format: Online
May 27 – Jul 3 | MTWTh 8:00am – 9:59am
 
Learn background and techniques for deepening your journalism skills and gain subject-matter expertise through intensive coverage of a single topical area. This course will explore the concepts and methods used by specialists to conduct inquiries that go beyond general reporting– including source development, finding and interpreting key documents, understanding important issues and how key institutions function.
 

Lecturer Jobs – Fall 2025

No positions available at this time.
 

ALL JOBS APPLY HERE:

https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04760

Please specify in your cover letter the position(s) you wish to be considered for.

Please contact Daniela Veneros, veneros_d at berkeley dot edu with questions. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status. The University of California, Berkeley is an AA/EEO employer.