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Berkeley Journalism alum Angela Filo and her husband David Filo, the co-founder of Yahoo, have made a $10 million pledge to the journalism school — the largest single gift to the school in its history. The gift publicly kicks off a five-year $54.4 million Campaign for Berkeley Journalism. “Great journalism is essential to a thriving…
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Tim Ferriss Gift Creates Journalism Fellowships at Berkeley’s new Center for Science of Psychedelics
An $800,000 gift supports The Center for Science of Psychedelics at Berkeley Journalism Leading podcaster and bestselling author Tim Ferriss has made a substantial gift to help grow the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP). Launched last fall, the BCSP was co-founded by Michael Pollan, a longtime faculty member at…
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With the aid of $245,000 from the Knight Foundation, Berkeley Journalism creates new program to guarantee students a paid summer internship between the first and second year of the school’s prestigious two-year graduate program. To address the lack of diversity in the field and cutbacks in internship budgets around the country, Berkeley Journalism announced today…
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We’ve launched a special fund called “Gabriel’s Fund” to support the Investigative Reporting Program’s reporting on vulnerable children – in memory of the young boy in the Netflix docuseries “The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez.”
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Berkeley Journalism students Karla Caraballo-Torres, Alondra De La Cruz, Lorin Eleni Gill and Francesca Fenzi have been named Hearst Fellows. The fellowships, established by the Hearst Foundation in 2016, has provided $200,000 in financial aid over the past three years to 10 promising second-year students. Karla Caraballo-Torres, from Falls Church, Va. is a bilingual multimedia…
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Bo Kovitz, a second-year graduate student in filmmaking, has been named this year’s Marlon T. Riggs Fellow. Named for the late J-School alumnus and professor Marlon T. Riggs (’81), the $10,000 fellowship was created in 2014 through the efforts of Vivian Kleiman, Riggs’ former collaborator. Funding was provided by Riggs’ Oakland-based production company Signifyin’…
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Journalists with a passion for reporting on food and agriculture will have a chance to pursue their interest yet again, owing to The 11th Hour Project, a program of The Schmidt Family Foundation created by Berkeley Journalism alumna Wendy Schmidt (’81). The 11th Hour Project funds 10 Food and Farming Journalism fellowships of $10,000 each.…
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From top left: Jonathan Rodas, Terrence Johnson, Gabriel Schneider, Akintunde Ahmad, Lauren Edmonds, Jessica Alvarenga, Betty Marquez Rosales, Ravleen Kaur, Marissa Beale, Ashvini Malshe, Carla Williams, Annette Choi. Photo: Yesica Prado (’19). Twelve recently admitted students from as far away as Virginia, Mississippi and Wisconsin attended the annual Spring Welcome Week as Rodgers Fellows in…
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(From left to right: Rachel Loyd, Pablo De La Hoya and Briana Flin) Photo Credit: Rosa Furneaux (’18) For Rachel Loyd, a Master of Journalism degree from UC Berkeley is the first step towards a bright career as a multimedia journalist. But the financial reality of attending graduate school almost put her dreams out of…
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Five second-year students are the recipients of special funding for international travel to cover reporting in Africa, Asia and Central America. The students–Rosa Furneaux, Chloe Lessard, Stefanie Le, Marc Vartabedian and Grace Oyenubi–are the beneficiaries of funding from 1955 journalism graduate Dick Hafner in memory of his wife Mary. The gift, Dick Hafner wrote at…
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