Alumni Portrait: Acclaimed Filmmaker Sam Green (’93)

Close-up photo of a middle-aged man with short, graying hair and brown eyes, gazing directly into the camera. The background, reminiscent of Berkeley Journalism's nuanced storytelling, is softly blurred to keep the focus on his facial features. His expression appears neutral and calm.

It was April 1992, and Sam Green had never been to Los Angeles before. A first-year student in the School of Journalism’s documentary program, he had volunteered to help a classmate shoot a video story on bilingual education in the city. It was a Wednesday, and the two friends had packed their supplies and one…

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Alumni Portrait: NPR Editor and Correspondent Ron Elving

A man with a mustache, wearing headphones and a shirt with a tie, is smiling as he sits in front of a microphone. The background is a dimly lit room, reminiscent of a Berkeley Journalism recording studio.

It was luck more than anything that got one of the country’s foremost Washington, D.C. journalists into the news business in the first place. Ron Elving, senior editor and correspondent at NPR’s Washington Desk, went to Stanford University without giving The Stanford Daily much thought. He got a Master’s in English from the University of…

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