Berkeley Journalism hiring part-time online instructors for spring semester

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The Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley is seeking part-time instructors to provide online course delivery of the following 3-unit courses during the Spring 2021 semester: J222 Interactive Narratives – 33% time appointment (3 teaching hrs/wk) This course explores new and experimental story formats for news, which can include longform scrollytelling,…

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Alumni Portrait: New York Times Columnist Michelle Goldberg

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Michelle Goldberg got her first up-close encounter with what she calls “rightwing postmodernism” covering the 2004 presidential campaign in Ohio. Out on the streets, with all his canvassers, it was easy to think John Kerry might have had the upper hand. But Goldberg found “the bones of what the George W. Bush turnout operation was…

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Berkeley Journalism community recognized at 2020 News & Documentary Emmy Awards

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The 41st Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards were announced this week. In all, more than 20 Berkeley Journalism alumni were recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the highest number in our community since 2016.  Closest to home, alumna and former instructor Daffodil Altan (‘04) and Berkeley Journalism Prof. and alum…

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Alumni Portrait: Bestselling Author Terry McMillan

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At the outset of her undergraduate time at UC Berkeley, Terry McMillan did not have a major. When it came time to declare, she told a school counselor that she wanted to do sociology. “Why?” he asked. “I said, ‘I care about the human race,’” she remembers replying, “‘and how we treat each other and,…

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Carrie Lozano (’05) named director of documentary film at Sundance

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September 9, 2020 Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, Today, the Sundance Institute announced that it is naming Carrie Lozano to the position of director of its documentary film program. Please join me in congratulating Carrie on her appointment to one of the most important and prestigious positions in documentary film in the world. As many of…

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Clara Mokri (‘21) named Jim Marshall Fellow for Photojournalism

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Clara Mokri, a second-year documentary student at Berkeley Journalism, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the fifth Jim Marshall Fellowship for photojournalism.  The fund was created in 2015 after an exhibit of Marshall’s work at the School’s Reva and David Logan Gallery of Documentary Photography. Named after renowned photographer Jim Marshall, the fellowship…

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Queena Kim joins Berkeley Journalism as head of audio program

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Veteran radio producer Queena Kim, a 2000 alumna of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, will join the School this fall as head of its audio journalism program.  Kim is Senior Editor of the Weekend Desk at public broadcaster KQED, a desk she helped launch in 2019. Previously, she held the post of Senior…

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Berkeley Journalism’s 7 Mastercard Foundation Scholars

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Growing up in Sudan, Alsanosi Adam knew one thing for certain: “Southern Sudan is a place you go to die.” This was during the Second Sudanese Civil War, the brutal, 22-year conflict between the country’s central government and the south’s resistance forces. In school, no one believed his South Sudanese classmates about their homeland’s peace…

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