The China Reporting Project

Your donation will help Berkeley Journalism train the next generation of journalists to report on China with nuance, sensitivity, and accuracy. And thanks to a generous donor, you can double your gift - so please give.

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Contact Steve Katz 
Assistant Dean for Advancement
stevekatz@berkeley.edu

Unique among American journalism programs, Berkeley Journalism’s China Reporting Project gives our journalism students a head start on covering China’s culture, history, and politics.

The need couldn’t be more urgent: Recent hostility and harsh rhetoric between the United States and China has become unnecessarily overheated, even dangerous. How Americans understand their relationship to China matters to all of us.

This is why we hope you’ll make a generous donation to the Berkeley Journalism China Reporting Project today.

Led by veteran New York Times reporters Edward Wong and Amy Qin, the project gives a select group of J-School students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge and reporting skills. By the end of the class, students will have produced a body of work that’s publication-ready, too.

Thanks to a generous gift by Berkeley alum Bak Chan, a board member and past president of the UC Berkeley California Alumni Association Chinese Chapter, Berkeley Journalism also provides tuition support to an incoming Berkeley Journalism student with a demonstrated interest in covering China, and awards a $5000 annual prize for the best reporting to come out of the class.

Now, Bak has pledged to match every dollar raised for Berkeley Journalism’s China
Reporting project up to $100,000. That means you can double the impact of your donation, and help us cover the costs of this special training opportunity.

In making this matching gift offer, Bak explained to Dean Geeta Anand that he was doing so because he “truly believes that the future relations between these two countries that so many of us care so passionately about can be positively shaped by outstanding journalism.”

Please join Bak in supporting the China Reporting Project with as generous a gift as you can. It’ll make all the difference in the world.

China Reporting ProjectFrom left to right: Edward Wong, Bak Chan, Sasha Hupka, Katie Licari, Freddy Brewster and Geeta Anand, Dean of Berkeley Journalism.

"My favorite class..."

The China Reporting class was by far my favorite class in my second year of journalism school and it was a privilege to work my tail off to keep up. Learning from working professionals and their first-hand experiences reporting on China was enlightening. Our guest lecturers were some of the most talented writers, most celebrated filmmakers, innovative multimedia reporters, analysts, and historians.

Michaela Vatcheva ('22)

Our Faculty

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Edward Wong

Edward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times who reports on foreign policy from Washington. He has spent most of his career as an international correspondent, reporting for 13 years from China and Iraq for The Times. As Beijing bureau chief, he ran The Times’s largest overseas operation.

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Amy Qin

Amy Qin is an international correspondent for The New York Times covering the intersection of culture, politics and society in China. In 2020, she was on a team of Times journalists that was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for a series exposing China’s crackdown on Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.