Berkeley Journalism is proud of the 2800+ students who have graduated from North Gate Hall. We celebrate the immense contributions they’ve made to the communities and organizations they serve.
Five UC Berkeley Journalism alumni and one of our multimedia lecturers are among the finalists for the 2024 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Sarah Cahlan (’19) and multimedia Lecturer John Harden were part of The Washington Post team named as finalists in the Feature Category for “American Icon,” a series of…
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A message from Emily Gurnon (’93), a longtime friend and classmate of Jennifer’s: Jennifer Bjorhus, a 1993 graduate of the journalism school and longtime newspaper reporter, died Aug. 9 after a nine-month battle with glioblastoma. She was 59. After earning her MJ, with a joint master’s in Asian Studies, she worked for eight years on…
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The National Association of Black Journalists celebrated Berkeley Journalism Professor Lisa Armstrong and alums Corey Antonio Rose (’23) and Jason Samuels (’95) at the organization’s 2024 convention in Chicago. The Salute to Excellence Awards — the only journalism competition in the United States to honor exemplary coverage of the African diaspora and Black issues exclusively…
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Eight Berkeley Journalism alumni are among the “exceptional journalists and documentarians” named nominees in the News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Violet Du Feng (’04) is nominated for Best Documentary for Independent Lens’ Hidden Letters (PBS), which reveals how modern women in China are working to maintain the tradition of Nüshu, a secret calligraphy language used…
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Four prolific Berkeley Journalism alums were honored with Sigma Delta Chi Awards for the most outstanding work published or broadcast in 2023. Their coverage explored everything from the paucity of mental health care to court challenges regarding social media content moderators in Africa to the stunning number of skydiving accidents at one Northern California company.…
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Amid the redwood trees on the California-Oregon border sits one of the most infamous prisons in United States history. Pelican Bay is a labyrinthine construction of solid cement blocks — a supermax prison — opened in 1989 and designed specifically for mass-scale solitary confinement. For decades, it held men alone in tiny cells indefinitely. Then…
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Alum Coral Murphy Marcos (’24) and student Negar Ajayebi (’25) were honored by the White House Correspondents’ Association at a celebration in Washington, DC in late April. Ajayebi was awarded the White House Correspondents’ Association college scholarship in 2024 alongside journalism students from 16 colleges and universities nationwide. Murphy Marcos, who graduated from Berkeley Journalism…
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Eight Berkeley Journalism graduates are among those honored for distinguished journalism in the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University announced May 6. Following a string of high honors from the nation’s top investigative reporting competitions, alum Brett Murphy (’16), a reporter on ProPublica’s national desk, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Judges noted the…
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Five Berkeley Journalism alums are nominated for Peabody Awards, an honor that celebrates the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media in 2023. Nominees were chosen by the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from more than 1,100 entries from television, podcasts/radio and the web. Celebrated filmmaker Violet Du Feng (’04) was…
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For more than a year, filmmaker Serginho Roosblad (’18) of the AP’s Global Investigations team has followed a group of journalists from The Associated Press as they set out to document how many people in the U.S. die after police officers use restraint tactics not meant to kill — as what happened to George Floyd…
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