Posts by Marlena Telvick
Prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting awarded to Berkeley Journalism alums for IRP/SF Chronicle collaboration
Alums Katey Rusch (’20) and Casey Smith (’20), have won the 2025 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for “Right to Remain Secret,” the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government announced in an awards ceremony today. The winning two-part investigative series, a collaboration between UC Berkeley’s Investigative…
Read MoreBerkeley Journalism goes to IRE’s NICAR conference and comes home with awards, accolades, and new insights on data journalism
Berkeley Journalism faculty members, students and alums recently convened in Minneapolis for IRE’s annual data journalism conference NICAR, where members of our community took home two of the three prizes that recognize the best use of social science research methods in journalism. Professor Jennifer LaFleur, who leads Berkeley Journalism’s data reporting, was part of the…
Read MoreMastercard Foundation Scholars thrive at UC Berkeley Journalism
Four gifted first-year students — Daniel Ekonde of Cameroon, James Mawien Manyuol of South Sudan, Victor Ochieng of Kenya and Jennifer Ugwa of Nigeria — are this year’s Mastercard Foundation Scholars at UC Berkeley Journalism, part of a campuswide program in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation that covers the educational costs of students seeking master’s…
Read MoreNorth Gate Update: February 2025
Narrative Alumni Reunion Details Announced Did you focus on print, long-form, or narrative journalism at Berkeley Journalism? This year’s alumni reunion is designed for you! Scheduled for March 15 at North Gate Hall, the day is aimed at both working journalists and those who have moved on to a new field. It kicks off with…
Read MoreNorth Gate Update: Five Questions for Tasneem Raja (’10)
Tasneem Raja (‘10) is the Editor-in-Chief of The Oaklandside, a nonprofit, digital newsroom covering Oakland, Calif., where she lives with her family. Founded in March 2020, the newsroom’s mission is to “amplify community voices, share the power of real information, and investigate systems, not just symptoms.” Over her career, Raja co-founded the nonprofit local news…
Read MoreNorth Gate Update: Five Questions for Ilana DeBare
Ilana DeBare (‘87) worked as a reporter at the Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Chronicle for about 20 years, then as communications director for an environmental nonprofit. In 2018 she decided to work full-time on her first novel, Shaken Loose, which came out in 2023. Publisher’s Weekly said, “DeBare leavens this fast-paced and often brutal…
Read MoreAkbari and Marino named Jim Marshall Fellows: ‘Capturing the world in a way words often cannot’
The competitive Jim Marshall Fellowships have been awarded to two second-year students, Denis Akbari and Walter David Marino. The $6,000 prize, named after renowned photographer Jim Marshall, supports a new generation of photojournalists by helping to reduce the debt burden they carry into their professional lives. The funding is provided by former reporter and legendary…
Read MoreSelden Ring Award goes to alums Rusch and Smith who — with the IRP and SF Chronicle — expose system for concealing police misconduct
“Right to Remain Secret” — a two-part story about a secret system that has concealed misconduct by California law enforcement officers for decades — by UC Berkeley Journalism alums Katey Rusch (’20) and Casey Smith (’20) and published in the San Francisco Chronicle, has won the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, USC’s Annenberg School…
Read MoreBerkeley Journalism Quarterly Newsletter: Winter 2025
Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, Our hearts go out to you and yours in the Los Angeles-area who have been contending with the devastating fires and aftermath. And thanks to all of the devoted journalists who are covering this ongoing crisis. At a time of turmoil in our natural and political worlds, it feels more…
Read MoreApplications open for the annual Bloomberg-UNC-Berkeley Business Journalism Diversity Program
Applications are open now through February 15 for the Bloomberg Business Journalism Diversity Program, in partnership with UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The program welcomes undergraduate students who are interested in learning about business journalism, and they’ll explore how journalists report effectively on the economy,…
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