Recent News
Berkeley Journalism announces faculty hires
June 17, 2021
Berkeley Journalism is proud to announce that it has hired two talented journalists and educators, both women of color,…
Berkeley Journalism lecturer, students and alumni honored in 2021 Pulitzer Prizes
June 12, 2021
The work of a Berkeley Journalism lecturer, five students and two alumni was honored in the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes, in the…
May 2021 Dean’s Letter
May 24, 2021
Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, Together, we’ve persevered through the pandemic, the racial reckoning and the polari…
Alumni nominees for 2021 Peabody Awards
May 12, 2021
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has selected 60 nominees that represent the most compelling and empowering stories re…
Featured Alum: Alyssa Jeong Perry
May 7, 2021
For Alyssa Jeong Perry (’16), the recent wave of anti-Asian violence has underscored the need to report on the diversity…
Berkeley Journalism announces 2021 Food and Farming Fellows
May 5, 2021
Ten journalists from around the country—including two Berkeley Journalism alums—selected from over 100 entries. Plus the…
Berkeley Journalism announces the expansion of popular summer journalism minor year-round
April 28, 2021
The addition of fall and spring classes marks the return of a regular-term undergraduate journalism degree program at UC…
Message from Dean Geeta Anand: Let the verdict be a call for journalists to continue to hold police accountable
April 20, 2021
A jury has convicted Derek Chauvin of all three charges in the murder of George Floyd. We feel so many different emotion…
Katie Bernstein (’21) named Brian Pollack Fellow in Documentary Filmmaking
April 20, 2021
Documentary filmmaker Katie Bernstein has been named the Brian Pollack Fellow in documentary filmmaking at the UC Berkel…
Inside Climate News & the Investigative Reporting Program uncover potential health hazards from storage tanks
April 19, 2021
An 18-month investigation by Inside Climate News in collaboration with Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Pro…
