Posts by Marlena Telvick
Kathryn Styer Martínez and Katie Rodriguez named Jim Marshall Fellows in Photojournalism
For the first time since it was created in 2015, the annual Jim Marshall Fellowship in Photography is being granted to two students Kathryn Styer Martínez and Katie Rodriguez, both second years at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. The quality of the work they submitted was so high and the need so great, the…
Read MoreInvestigation by alums Meg Shutzer and Rachel Lauren Mueller runs on front page of The New York Times following film festival premiere
Two back-to-back suicides at a juvenile detention center in rural Louisiana raise troubling questions about the state’s justice system and exposes a legacy of abuse and neglect. The explosive findings by recent J-School graduates appear in a documentary short and on the front page of the country’s newspaper of record. On Oct. 30, Berkeley Journalism…
Read MoreMajor IRP investigation into non-fatal police shootings runs on front page of The Washington Post
On October 21, Berkeley Journalism alumnus Brian Howey (‘22) published a major investigation into non-fatal police shootings on the front page of The Washington Post. Howey collaborated with Wesley Lowery, one of the country’s premiere investigative reporters covering law enforcement, and Washington Post Data Editor Steven Rich on the story. Berkeley Journalism alums Bashirah Mack…
Read MoreJosé Andrés Fellow Jessica De La Torre’s investigation of teenage farmworkers runs in Teen Vogue
Jessica De La Torre, a second-year graduate student at Berkeley Journalism, never expected that their gripping story on the plight of teenage farmworkers in California’s Central Valley would end up being published in Teen Vogue. De La Torre also never expected to be invited to travel to Washington, D.C., to talk about it in a…
Read MoreChrista Scharfenberg named project director of $25 million California Local Journalism Fellowship program at Berkeley Journalism
Veteran nonprofit journalism leader Christa Scharfenberg will direct a new $25 million, state-funded fellowship program at Berkeley Journalism to support and strengthen local news reporting in communities throughout the state. Believed to be the largest state-level funding for journalism in the United States, the new Berkeley fellowship program will provide multi-year stipend support for up…
Read MoreJ-School Faculty and Alumni Honored with News & Documentary Award Nominations
When the 43rd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards are presented on Wednesday (Sept. 28) and Thursday (Sept. 29) and by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, 22 Berkeley Journalism alumni and faculty will be among the nominees being honored. We were thrilled to not only see veteran journalists Bill Whitaker (’78/’17) and…
Read MoreAs online harms surge, Our Better Web initiative advances at UC Berkeley
Our Better Web convenes high-level Berkeley leaders to help guide public policy to support web platforms that are healthy and safe for people, communities and U.S. democracy. With the U.S. midterm elections approaching and political disinformation posing a continued threat to democracy, UC Berkeley’s ambitious new Our Better Web initiative is advancing efforts to study…
Read MoreState funds Berkeley Journalism $25 million to strengthen California’s local news coverage
The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism will launch a $25 million, state-funded fellowship program this spring that aims to support and strengthen local reporting in underserved and historically underrepresented areas across the state. What is believed to be the largest state allocation ever made in California and in the U.S. to support local journalism,…
Read MoreA Note of Gratitude to Professor Jeremy Rue
Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, We don’t do this enough. We don’t remember to thank people who have performed extraordinary service. I want to make sure we do. And so I am writing this note of gratitude to Prof. Jeremy Rue who has returned his focus to teaching after service to the community for the past…
Read MoreAlumni Portrait: Documentary Producer/Director Michael Milano
Michael Milano doesn’t like interviews. It is not that he doesn’t like people — he loves people, and people, generally, love him. But he says everything he wants to say is in his work. He gave very few interviews after his two widely acclaimed films came to light and those were not to the biggest…
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