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Seventeen UC Berkeley Journalism alums have been honored with 2025 California Journalism Awards from the California News Publishers Association for excellent reporting, photography, multimedia and design in print and online publications across the state. Three of the winners, Saumya Gupta (‘24), Tarini Mehta (’24) and Kathleen Quinn (’24), graduated just two years ago and are…
An investigation developed at UC Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program in collaboration with the San Francisco Chronicle by alums Matthew Mitchell (’25) and Susie Neilson (’19) is shedding light on serious failures by San Francisco’s HomeRise, one of the largest non-profits serving formerly unhoused people in the city. The first piece published in March —…
UC Berkeley Journalism alums were honored in the National Headliner Awards, one of the oldest and largest annual awards competitions, for extraordinary print, online, television, radio and photographic journalism in the news industry. More than 1,000 entries were received for this year’s competition that covered journalism published in 2025. Becca Andrews (’15) won in the…
The top award for Audio Reporting in the 2026 James Beard Media Awards, considered the “Oscars of Food,” has been awarded to alums Alyssa Jeong Perry (’16) and Teresa Cotsirilos (’17) for “A post-pollinator world,” for “Buzzkill” from the Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN), distributed by PRX. The awards, established in 1993, recognize “journalists…
Zane Karram (’25) and Kelsey Oliver’s (’25) thesis documentary, “Strangers on Our Land,” has been selected for the longlist of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts prestigious Student BAFTA Awards, the international student equivalent of the Student Academy Awards. The documentary investigates the killing of Raymond Mattia, a member of the Tohono…
Eight alums and a UC Berkeley Journalism instructor have been honored with 2026 Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association’s Region 2 for outstanding achievements in both professional and student-level broadcast and digital journalism. The awards recognize local news stories that uphold the news association’s Code of Ethics, demonstrate technical expertise…
The Asian American Journalists Association, which has honored excellence in journalism for nearly 40 years, celebrates “the power of journalism that informs, investigates, uplifts communities, and tells the stories that matter most.” This year’s winners include several UC Berkeley Journalism alums — including 2026 graduate Ava Hu — who will be honored during a gala…
Investigations by five UC Berkeley Journalism alums have won top honors in the 2025 IRE Awards. The annual contest showcases exemplary work by members of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) from the past year. Two other alums, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the same reporting, were named finalists. Since 1979, the IRE Awards have…
UC Berkeley Journalism alumni Susie Neilson (’19) at the San Francisco Chronicle, Garance Burke (’04) at The Associated Press and Kathleen Hennessey (’04) at the Minnesota Star Tribune were named 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners by the Pulitzer Board at Columbia University today. Another eight Berkeley Journalism alumni were honored as part of award-winning or finalist…
Eleonora Bianchi (’22) and Leah Rosenbaum (’19) have been named finalists in the 2026 INNY Awards, honoring the best in nonprofit newsgathering. Judges comments: For “Hidden In Plain Sight,” a contender for the Insight Award for Visual Journalism in the Medium division, the New Bedford Light took a creative risk. Photos of residents of a…