Posts by Marlena Telvick
“Gabriel’s Fund” launched to support reporting on vulnerable children
We’ve launched a special fund called “Gabriel’s Fund” to support the Investigative Reporting Program’s reporting on vulnerable children – in memory of the young boy in the Netflix docuseries “The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez.”
Read MoreRecord 4 Berkeley Journalism filmmakers shortlisted for prestigious BAFTA Student Awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the shortlist for the 2020 BAFTA Student Film Awards. Four of the nominees are 2019 graduates of Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, a record for the School.
Read MoreEarlonne Woods to Give Commencement Address
Earlonne Woods will be the Class of 2020 commencement speaker at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He’s the co-producer/host/creator of “Ear Hustle”, a recent Pulitzer Prize–finalist podcast on the daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it and post-incarceration stories from the outside.
Read MoreBerkeley Journalism launches COVID-19 California reporting initiative with The New York Times
Berkeley Journalism has joined forces with The New York Times to help meet the need for comprehensive reporting on how the novel coronavirus crisis is affecting California.
Read MoreFilmmaker Jennifer Redfearn to lead documentary program
The Graduate School of Journalism announces the appointment of filmmaker Jennifer Redfearn as professor of documentary and director of the School’s prestigious documentary program.
Read MoreStay strong: A message from the dean
The first in an occasional series to students from Edward Wasserman, dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Read MoreProfile: Jim Marshall Fellow Wesaam Al-Badry (‘20)
Wesaam Al-Badry, a second-year master’s student in multimedia at the Journalism School, is this year’s recipient of the Jim Marshall Fellowship for photojournalism.
Read MoreFilmmaker Nisha Balaram awarded Chauncey Bailey Fellowship
Second-year documentary film student Nisha Balaram is this year’s recipient of the Chauncey Bailey Fellowship.
Read MoreSearch for new dean of the Graduate School of Journalism begins
The University of California, Berkeley seeks a visionary leader, courageous innovator and accomplished journalist to serve as the next dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Read MoreSarah Trent (’20) Wins Prestigious Overseas Press Club Award
Sarah Trent, a second-year student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, received an Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Award at the OPC’s annual ceremony in New York Feb. 28, marking an unbroken decade of honors for Berkeley Journalism students in the annual competition.
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