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.
The latest in a long streak of wins and finalist nods for multimedia journalists Francesca Fenzi (‘19) and Yutao “Todd” Chen’s (‘19) thesis project, “Dirty Business,” was May’s award for best Nonfiction Series at the 40th College Television Awards. The multimedia story, which featured vivid written reporting, stirring photos and video, and data visualization is…
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By Aashna Malpani (‘21) Rudabeh Shahbazi has trudged alone through swamps and braved unbearable heat and cold, laden with heavy camera equipment, just to get a story. She graduated from the J-School in the middle of an economic downturn but was willing to do all that work solo just to make it. “While other Berkeley…
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the shortlist for the 2020 BAFTA Student Film Awards. Four of the nominees are 2019 graduates of Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, a record for the School.
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Sarah M. Broom’s (’04) exquisite debut book “The Yellow House,” that tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities, has won the National Book Award for Nonfiction writing. It is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy, and that…
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A FRONTLINE and Associated Press investigation on the mass confinement of migrant children, produced by FRONTLINE’s Daffodil Altan (’04) and Berkeley Journalism Prof. Andrés Cediel (’04), featuring AP investigative reporter Garance Burke (’04), will air tonight on PBS stations nationwide. The film exposes the traumatic stories of kids detained under President Trump’s immigration policies, and reveals…
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Documentary filmmaker and 2019 Berkeley Journalism graduate Eva Rendle has been named one of seven finalists in the 46th Student Academy Awards. Eva’s thesis film “All That Remains” is an intimate portrait of the second responders and vineyard workers who are still dealing with the aftermath of the 2017 North Bay Fires, one year later.…
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Berkeley Journalism alumna, lecturer and Advisory Board member Carrie Lozano (‘05) is among the 842 artists and executives invited to join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The highly coveted membership review which takes place just once a year, recognizes filmmakers and others “who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion…
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Nearly five years after a Berkeley Journalism graduate student began reporting on a deadly Navy helicopter crash, his work has led to the first feature documentary film from UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program. “Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn?” follows the death of a pilot concerned about the safety of his aircraft to reveal larger…
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Recent graduates of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism dominate the nationwide slate of finalists for Student Academy Awards in documentary film, which was posted Aug. 12. The 2018 thesis films of four graduates —Grace Oyenubi, Lauren Schwartzman, Alan Toth and Nani Sahra Walker — accounted for three of seven finalist spots in the documentary…
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Dr. Elena Conis, a 2004 graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has been promoted to associate professor at the School. Conis, a writer and historian specializing in medicine, public health, and the environment, has 14 years of teaching experience. Since returning to Berkeley in 2016, she has taught J200, the School’s intensive…
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