Recent News
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…
Berkeley Journalism collaborates with FRONTLINE, ProPublica on “American Insurrection”
April 9, 2021
Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) is collaborating with the PBS series FRONTLINE and ProPublic…
Prof. Ken Light awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
April 9, 2021
The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship reci…
Dean Geeta Anand on Women’s History Month
March 29, 2021
Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, It is ironic that as we celebrate Women’s History Month, there are so many examples…
