2025 Media Mayhem draws more than 100 recruiters to connect with students and recent grads
April 9, 2025
UC Berkeley Journalism’s 6th annual Media Mayhem Career and Networking event in March, co-hosted by the school’s Nationa…

Prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting awarded to Berkeley Journalism alums for IRP/SF Chronicle collaboration
April 3, 2025
Casey Smith and Katey Rusch photographed with the 2025 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting at the awards ceremon…

Berkeley Journalism goes to IRE’s NICAR conference and comes home with awards, accolades, and new insights on data journalism
April 1, 2025
Berkeley Journalism faculty members, students and alums recently convened in Minneapolis for IRE’s annual data journalis…

Mastercard Foundation Scholars thrive at UC Berkeley Journalism
March 5, 2025
From left to right: James Mawien Manyuol, Victor Ochieng, Jennifer Ugwa and Daniel Ekonde. Photo: Marlena Telvick Four g…

North Gate Update: February 2025
February 18, 2025
Narrative Alumni Reunion Details Announced Did you focus on print, long-form, or narrative journalism at Berkeley Journa…

North Gate Update: Five Questions for Tasneem Raja (’10)
February 18, 2025
Tasneem Raja. Photo: Kelly Sullivan Tasneem Raja (‘10) is the Editor-in-Chief of The Oaklandside, a nonprofit, digital n…

North Gate Update: Five Questions for Ilana DeBare
February 18, 2025
Ilana DeBare Ilana DeBare (‘87) worked as a reporter at the Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Chronicle for about 20 year…

‘Right to Remain Secret’ wins George Polk Award for Justice Reporting
February 17, 2025
Katey Rusch and Casey Smith On the heels of winning the Selden Ring Award, alums Katey Rusch (’20) and Casey Smith (’20)…

Akbari and Marino named Jim Marshall Fellows: ‘Capturing the world in a way words often cannot’
February 4, 2025
Denis Akbari and Walter David Marino The competitive Jim Marshall Fellowships have been awarded to two second-year stude…

Selden Ring Award goes to alums Rusch and Smith who — with the IRP and SF Chronicle — expose system for concealing police misconduct
February 3, 2025
Katey Rusch and Casey Smith “Right to Remain Secret” — a two-part story about a secret system that has concealed miscond…
