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Dan Krauss ’04, who’s currently teaching first-year students at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and enjoying a deluge of award nominations and other recognition for his film, “The Kill Team,” talks about his niche as a “nonfiction filmmaker.”

Online News Association Honors Four Other Recent Graduates and an ex-IRP Fellow. From left: Alexandra GarretÌ_n (’15), Lynne Shallcross (’15) and Chris Schodt (’15) were among six J-School alumni nominated for Online Journalism Awards this year. Shallcross took home the award for best work in the small student project category.

Alumni nominated for 36th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards include Daffodil Altan (’04), Jonathan Richard Jones (’05), Jason Spingarn-Koff (’01), Tommy Nguyen (’05), Bret Sigler (’03) and Sweta Vohra (’10).

The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism community is pleased to announce that alums Angel Gonzalez (’03), Jim Simon (’84), Alexa Vaughn (’11), and Gregory Winter (’00) are among those who have earned journalism’s top honors.

The International Documentary Association (IDA) brings several award-winning filmmakers with ties to the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism together to discuss the overlap between journalism and documentary filmmaking.

The Society of Professional Journalists Northern California chapter honored second-year student Joaquin Palomino and several alumni of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism at its annual Excellence in Journalism Awards.

Several alumni of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism graced the stage at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards.

“Rape in the Fields,” a yearlong investigation into the widespread sexual assault of American field workers, won the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights’ top journalism award. In addition to the grand prize, the committee also selected the film for the 2014 Domestic Television Award. The documentary was a collaboration between the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, The Center for Investigative Reporting, PBS Frontline and Univision.