Posts by Chuck Harris

Rebecca Skloot, science journalist and author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,
will be writer-in-residence at the Graduate School of Journalism in spring 2016.

David Littlejohn, arts critic, book author and UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Professor Emeritus who spent 35 years teaching at Berkeley and 29 years at the J-School, passed away on Thursday, June 4. He was 78. As the J-School community mourns this loss, those who knew him remember a brilliant teacher, a cultural adventurer,…

On Sunday, looking over a courtyard filled with more than 300 friends and family of the J-School’s 2015 graduating class, commencement speaker Jill Abramson offered some timeless wisdom to the 41 students, each poised to cross the line from master’s candidate to graduate. “Keep chasing stories,” she said. “Keep up your passion for digging. That’s what’s pulled me through.”

On Sunday, looking over a courtyard filled with more than 300 friends and family of the J-School’s 2015 graduating class, commencement speaker Jill Abramson offered some timeless wisdom to the 41 students, each poised to cross the line from master’s candidate to graduate. ‰”Keep chasing stories,” she said. ‰”Keep up your passion for digging. That’s what’s pulled me through.”

First-year student Gabriel Sanchez (class of 2016) attended this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, giving him a chance to brush shoulders with some of Washington, D.C.’s most powerful and influential journalists and politicians.

Kowloon Walled City, an interactive story for the Wall Street Journal that was co-produced by J-School alum Diana Jou (class of 2011), has won the Scripps Howard Award for Digital Innovation.

The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism mourns the passing of Nan Tucker McEvoy, philanthropist and heiress to the de Young family’s Chronicle Publishing empire.

The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism awarded five scholarships of $10,000 to students pursuing investigative stories.