Jason Margolis (second from left) interviewing sugar farmers in Brazil for The World in 2014. (Photo courtesy Jason Margolis.)

Filmmaker, lecturer and alum Dan Krauss teaching Daphne Matziaraki to shoot in 2014.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has narrowed the field of documentary award contenders for the 89th Academy Awards to 10 films, two of them produced by graduates of the Berkeley J-School. Five of the shortlisted films will earn Oscar nominations. May 2016 documentary graduate Daphne Matziaraki‘s stunning thesis film “4.1 Miles”–on the…

They didn’t announce the winners until last weekend. But since mid-August, this year’s Online News Association top student award for small projects was going to two UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alums. Rachel Hiles (’16) and Nina Zou (’16) won the David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award for their master’s theses, the multimedia project “Chasing…

Dr. Elena Conis, a 2004 graduate of the J-School, has been named the newest member of the faculty at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Elena has 12 years of teaching experience. Most recently she was an Assistant Professor of History and Faculty Fellow in the Health and Humanities in the Department of History…

In what may be a record, five UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism professors, four lecturers and nineteen alums have been honored in the latest round of News & Documentary Emmy Award nominations. “These awards are a tribute to the outstanding work being done by men and woman at the highest level of the broadcast…

Pamela Harris (’07) and Vivian Kleiman.

Pete Nicks (“÷99), Daffodil Altan (“÷04) and AndrÌ©s Cediel (“÷04) .

The J-School alum credits the school with training her to be publishable, to dig, and to ask good questions.

Tamara Keith (’01)