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Alums Katey Rusch (’20) and Casey Smith (’20), have won the 2025 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for “Right to Remain Secret,” the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government announced in an awards ceremony today. The winning two-part investigative series, a collaboration between UC Berkeley’s Investigative…
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“Right to Remain Secret” — a two-part story about a secret system that has concealed misconduct by California law enforcement officers for decades — by UC Berkeley Journalism alums Katey Rusch (’20) and Casey Smith (’20) and published in the San Francisco Chronicle, has won the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, USC’s Annenberg School…
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Applications are open now through February 15 for the Bloomberg Business Journalism Diversity Program, in partnership with UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The program welcomes undergraduate students who are interested in learning about business journalism, and they’ll explore how journalists report effectively on the economy,…
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The just-released documentary “Voces: Latino Vote 2024” — produced and directed by Bernardo Ruíz and produced by award-winning documentary filmmaker Andrés Cediel (’04) and Marcia Robiou — takes a deep dive into the powerful and complicated Latino voting bloc across multiple states. The hour-long film is a collaboration among CPB, PBS, PBS Socal, ITVS, and…
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‘All stories are business stories’ UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Haas School of Business — with support from Bloomberg News — have launched an initiative to enable journalism and business students to take classes across the two disciplines. The schools are pursuing a formal joint certificate in Business Journalism, with the goal…
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The second season of the award-winning KQED investigative podcast “On Our Watch” — reported by alum Sukey Lewis’ (’15) and Julie Small — takes listeners inside California State Prison, Sacramento, known as New Folsom. The podcast tells the story of two correctional officers who work in an elite investigative unit and what happens when…
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Our Better Web convenes high-level Berkeley leaders to help guide public policy to support web platforms that are healthy and safe for people, communities and U.S. democracy. With the U.S. midterm elections approaching and political disinformation posing a continued threat to democracy, UC Berkeley’s ambitious new Our Better Web initiative is advancing efforts to study…
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There are 26 words that have made the Internet what it is today. “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” These words are enshrined in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The statute, which has…
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“American Insurrection,” a collaboration between Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program, PBS Frontline and ProPublica, has won a George Polk Award, one of the most prestigious honors in journalism. The collaboration, honored in the category of National Television Reporting, was one of 15 winners announced on Monday by Long Island University, which administers the Polk Awards.…
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The Human Rights Center (HRC) at Berkeley Law and the Investigative Reporting Program at Berkeley Journalism have launched the country’s first multidisciplinary investigative reporting course using open source intelligence (OSINT) at a university. Building off the skills and knowledge incubated in the HRC Investigations Lab at Berkeley Law, the course will introduce journalism and law…
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