Posts by Marlena Telvick
Berkeley Journalism Honors Pride Month
Dear Berkeley Journalism Community: I would like to take the opportunity during Pride Month—celebrated annually in June to honor the historic Stonewall Uprising in New York City in 1969—to reiterate our commitment to make the School inclusive and welcoming for all. Three years ago, we put up a Pride flag during Pride Month and decided…
Read MoreSerginho Roosblad (’18) named first fellow of Associated Press and Ida B. Wells Society collaboration
From the Ida B. Wells Society For Investigative Reporting, a news trade organization which seeks to raise the awareness of, and opportunities for, investigative reporting among journalists of color: June 14, 2021 Serginho Roosblad will be joining the global investigative team at The Associated Press as the first hire in a new program developed…
Read MoreNABJ Berkeley Chapter’s Ande Richards and Dean Anand on Celebrating Juneteenth
Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, I write together with our NABJ chapter president Ande Richards to celebrate Juneteenth. At this historic moment, our national leaders have taken steps to make this day that marks the end of slavery a national holiday. These efforts have been recognized by our campus leadership, and UC President Drake has announced that Juneteenth is now an…
Read MoreBerkeley Journalism announces faculty hires
Berkeley Journalism is proud to announce that it has hired two talented journalists and educators, both women of color, onto its prestigious faculty after a nationwide search. The hiring of Lisa Armstrong and Shereen Marisol Meraji reflect the School’s goal of taking the limits off who gets to be a journalist by determining who trains…
Read MoreBerkeley Journalism lecturer, students and alumni honored in 2021 Pulitzer Prizes
The work of a Berkeley Journalism lecturer, five students and two alumni was honored in the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes, in the Breaking News, National News and Public Service categories, Columbia University announced. Abbie VanSickle was a key member of the staff of The Marshall Project that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a…
Read MoreAlumni nominees honored at 2021 Peabody Awards
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has selected 60 nominees that represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2020. The nominees were chosen by a unanimous vote of 19 jurors from over 1,300 entries from television, podcasts/radio and the web in entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, public service…
Read MoreBerkeley Journalism announces 2021 Food and Farming Fellows
Ten journalists from around the country—including two Berkeley Journalism alums—selected from over 100 entries. Plus the announcement of a new, concurrent fellowship for a graduating student in 2022 funded by renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés. Prof. Michael Pollan, the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at Berkeley Journalism established the program…
Read MoreBerkeley Journalism announces the expansion of popular summer journalism minor year-round
The addition of fall and spring classes marks the return of a regular-term undergraduate journalism degree program at UC Berkeley not available since the 1970s. The summer-only journalism minor has become one of the most heavily enrolled summer programs at UC Berkeley, drawing hundreds of students from across the hard sciences, social sciences, as well…
Read MoreMessage from Dean Geeta Anand: Let the verdict be a call for journalists to continue to hold police accountable
A jury has convicted Derek Chauvin of all three charges in the murder of George Floyd. We feel so many different emotions in response to this verdict. We feel relief that a police officer who killed someone has been held criminally accountable, which has rarely happened in our history. We feel grief that George Floyd died…
Read MoreKatie Bernstein (’21) named Brian Pollack Fellow in Documentary Filmmaking
Documentary filmmaker Katie Bernstein has been named the Brian Pollack Fellow in documentary filmmaking at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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