Richard Koci Hernandez

Richard Koci Hernandez

Faculty – Associate Professor

Office: Digital Media Center / B1

Richard Koci Hernandez is an internationally recognized, award-winning innovator in journalism and multimedia. Koci Hernandez published ”The Principles of Multimedia Journalism: Packaging Digital News” Taylor & Francis, 2015. In this much-needed examination of the principles of multimedia journalism, experienced journalists Koci Hernandez and co-author Jeremy Rue systemize and categorize the characteristics of the new, often experimental story forms that appear on today’s digital news platforms. Koci Hernandez is a national Emmy award-winning multimedia producer who worked as a visual journalist at the San Jose Mercury News for 15 years. His photographic work has appeared in The New York Times, Wired, The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and a National Geographic Book on iPhone Photography, among others. His photographic monograph, Downtown was published in 2013 by French publisher, outofthephone. In 2013, his multimedia project for CNN, Our Mobile Society, earned him his fourth national Emmy nomination from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. In 2008, Richard was awarded a national Emmy award for the New Approaches to Documentary category for his work on the Mercury News multimedia project entitled, Uprooted. His work for the Mercury News covering the Latino Diaspora and the California Youth Prison System earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations and in 2003  and the James K. Batten Knight Ridder Excellence Award. In 2006, Richard was named deputy director of photography and multimedia at the Mercury News after spearheading the creation of the organizations first visual journalism website, MercuryNewsPhoto.com. He has taught multimedia workshops for Stanford University, National Press Photographers Association, The Southern Short Course, National Association for Hispanic Journalists and National Association for Black Journalists, among many others. He has lectured at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Stanford University. Koci-Hernandez is a San Francisco State University journalism graduate, where he has been a guest instructor. In 2008 Koci Hernandez was invited to join the Faculty at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism as a visiting Fellow supported by a Ford Foundation grant to produce digital news sites for San Francisco Bay Area communities. In 2017 Koci Hernandez was named an Associate Professor for New Media at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley.

TEACHING SCHEDULE:

Sec. Title Time Location
001 J209 Bootcamp
Fall 2022
(Aug 22-23 everyone); (Aug 24-26 video students) 142 North Gate (LMC) — 142 North Gate (LMC)
001 J209 Multimedia Bootcamp
Fall 2021
Th 8/26 9-6:30; F 8/27 9-7:30
001 J209 Multimedia Bootcamp – August 26 and 27
Fall 2019
M-F 9:00am - 9:00pm 142 North Gate (LMC) — 142 North Gate (LMC)
2 J209 Multimedia Bootcamp – Week of August 20-August 24 – Oakland North and Richmond Confidential
Fall 2018
M-F 9:00am - 9:00pm
1 J209 Multimedia Bootcamp – Week of August 27-August 31 – Environment/Health and Living on the Flipside of the Tech Boom
Fall 2018
M-F 9:00am - 9:00pm
4 J211 Reporting the News Lab
Fall 2018
Th 9:00-12:00 142 North Gate (LMC) — 142 North Gate (LMC)
001 J215 Introduction to Multimedia
Fall 2022
Th 1:00 - 4:00 108 North Gate (Lower News) — 108 North Gate (Lower News)
001 J215 Introduction to Multimedia
Fall 2021
M 1:00 - 4:00 108 North Gate (Lower News) — 108 North Gate (Lower News)
001 J216 Multimedia Reporting
Fall 2021
Tu 10:00 - 1:00 108 North Gate (Lower News) — 108 North Gate (Lower News)
001 J216 Multimedia Reporting
Fall 2022
Tu 9:00 - 12:00 108 North Gate (Lower News) — 108 North Gate (Lower News)
001 J216 Multimedia Reporting
Spring 2022
Tu 10:00 -1:00 B1 North Gate — B1 North Gate
002 J216 Multimedia Reporting
Fall 2021
Tu 10:00 - 1:00 106 North Gate (Upper News) — 106 North Gate (Upper News)
1 J216 New Media Master’s Project Seminar
Spring 2018
T/Th 2:00 - 3:30 B1 North Gate — B1 North Gate
1 J216 New Media Master’s Project Seminar
Spring 2019
Tu/Th 4:00 - 5:30 B1 North Gate — B1 North Gate
1 J216 New Media Master’s Project Seminar
Fall 2018
T/Th 4:00-5:30 B1 North Gate — B1 North Gate
001 J216 New Media Master’s Project Seminar – section 001
Spring 2020
W 2:00 - 5:00 B1 North Gate — B1 North Gate
1 J216 New Media Master’s Project Seminar-Section 1
Fall 2019
W 2:00 - 5:00 B1 North Gate — B1 North Gate
3 J219 Animating the News
Spring 2018
W 9:30 - 12:30 106 North Gate (Upper News) — 106 North Gate (Upper News)
008 J219 Animating the News 10/8 – 11/26
Fall 2019
Tu 6:00 - 8:00 B1 North Gate — B1 North Gate
001 J219 Animating the News 9/9 – 10/21
Fall 2021
Th 10:00 - 1:00 106 North Gate (Upper News) — 106 North Gate (Upper News)
001 J222 Interactive Narratives: Future Storyforms
Spring 2020
Th 2:00 - 4:00 106 North Gate (Upper News) — 106 North Gate (Upper News)
1 J222 Interactive Narratives: Future Storyforms
Spring 2018
Th 3:30 - 5:30 106 North Gate (Upper News) — 106 North Gate (Upper News)
1 J222 Interactive Narratives: Future Storyforms
Spring 2019
Th 2:00 - 4:00 106 North Gate (Upper News) — 106 North Gate (Upper News)
1 J282 Intro to Visual Journalism – Section 1
Fall 2018
M 1:00 - 4:00 142 North Gate (LMC) — 142 North Gate (LMC)
016 J294 Master’s Project Seminar – Koci Hernandez
Fall 2021
By appt. By appointment — By appointment
020 J294 Master’s Project Seminar – Koci Hernandez
Spring 2022
By appt. By appointment — By appointment
016 J294 Master’s Project Seminar – Koci Hernandez
Fall 2022
By appt. By appointment — By appointment
009 J294 Master’s Project Seminar: New Media – Koci Hernandez
Fall 2019
By appt. By appointment — By appointment
005 J294 Master’s Project Seminar: New Media – Koci Hernandez
Spring 2020
By appt. By appointment — By appointment
3 J294 Master’s Project Seminar: New Media – Koci Hernandez
Spring 2019
By appt. By appointment — By appointment
009 J294 Master’s Project Seminar: New Media – Koci Hernandez
Fall 2019
By appt. By appointment — By appointment
3 J294 Master’s Project Seminar: New Media – Koci Hernandez
Spring 2019
By appt. By appointment — By appointment
9 J294 Master’s Project Seminar: New Media – Koci Hernandez
Fall 2018
By appt. By appointment — By appointment
3 J294 Master’s Project Seminar: New Media – Koci Hernandez
Spring 2018
By appt. By appointment — By appointment
6 J298 – Alternative Video
Fall 2018
Tu 10:00 - 1:00 106 North Gate (Upper News) — 106 North Gate (Upper News)
024 J298 OSINT Seminar – Open Source Investigations
Fall 2021
W 9:00 - 12:00 142 North Gate (LMC) — 142 North Gate (LMC)

REPORTING INTERESTS

Arts, Investigative, Technology, Urban Reporting

MEDIA PLATFORMS

Multimedia, Video Journalism