Posts by Chuck Harris

UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism recently announced a call for entries for its seventh-annual competition for yearlong fellowships in investigative reporting. The fellowships are open to all working investigative journalists. Graduates from UC Berkeley’s master’s program in journalism are encouraged to apply.

The North Gate News is now online. Find out what is happening at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Congratulations to the seven J-Schoolers selected to receive Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. The awards will be announced at the Region 11 Spring Conference in April, in Las Vegas.

"Can't Hold Me Back," a documentary for the PBS series American Graduate, by Betty Bastidas ’10 and Madeleine Bair ’10, has been selected to be part of the PBS Online Film Festival.

Caroline Dijckmeester-Bins ’12 and Carl Nasman ’12 produced a video about using design to fight landmines on Time.com.

Dean Edward Wasserman, along with deans from several journalism programs, participated in an analysis of the state of journalism and addressed the concern about the decrease of accountability in journalism. Read the
Dean’s Statement and Council Foundation’s report for more information.

Lily Mihalik ’11 and Armand Emamdjomeh ’10 won the Documentary Project of the Year Award for their work on “Dying For Relief,” a series of investigative reporting pieces by the Los Angeles Times. Emamdjomeh also worked on “Beyond 7 Million,” which was also a finalist for this award.

Documentaries by Hunter Holcombe ’12 and Becca Friedman ’12 are nominated for the 2013 College Television Awards. Holcombe’s doc, “Exit Wound,”” and Friedman’s doc, “Past Their Prime,”” were both master’s projects done at the J-School.

The New York Times reviewed “Detroit: An American Autopsy,” the new book by Pulitzer Prize winner and J-School alumus, Charlie LeDuff ’95.