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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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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, has won a 2023 George Polk Award as part of the team that revealed “secret, lavish and highly questionable gifts” that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has received for decades from…
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Four alumni of our Investigative Reporting Program and its managing editor are among those honored in the 2023 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Awards. The prestigious annual contest recognizes the most outstanding watchdog journalism of the year by print, broadcast and online media. Brett Murphy (’16) is on the team of “Friends of the Court”…
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Recent graduate Nazmul Ahasan (’23) has won a Sigma Award, which recognizes the best data-driven projects of the past year, for “Body Count: Extrajudicial Executions in Bangladesh,” published by Netra News. The prize committee had high praise for Ahasan’s investigation: Body Count is an exceptional data journalism effort where the numbers paint a gruesome story…
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Award-winning documentary filmmaker and media executive Carrie Lozano (’05) will speak at Berkeley Journalism’s 2024 Commencement on Saturday, May 11, at North Gate Hall in Berkeley, Calif. Lozano, an alum and former instructor of documentary filmmaking at the school, is now the president and CEO of ITVS, which co-produces independent films for PBS and produces…
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Two Berkeley Journalism alums are finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, which honors the public service journalism that has made a notable impact on public policy. The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School named the eagerly anticipated finalists in an announcement Tuesday. Brian Howey (’22) is part…
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UC Berkeley will honor “60 Minutes” Correspondent Bill Whitaker (’78/’16) with the 2024 Alum of the Year Award and ITVS President and CEO Carrie Lozano (’05) with the Campanile Excellence in Achievement Award, campus announced today. The Berkeley Journalism alums — both members of the school’s advisory board — will be celebrated with other Achievement…
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The prolific multimedia producer calls on journalists to witness and record moments of joy and celebration. “I hope this inspires journalists, both students and professionals, to take big swings in seemingly small corners.” Alum Steve Saldivar (’10) has been named winner of 2023 National Ruben Salazar Journalism Award in Digital from the CCNMA: Latino Journalists…
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Myah Overstreet’s (‘23) “To Be Invisible,” will premiere in the Nonfiction Short Films category at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20 — only the third Berkeley Journalism thesis film to be screened at the prestigious festival. The film offers a critical analysis of the family policing system through two mothers, Alexis and Kellie, as they…
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