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“COVID’s Hidden Toll,” written, directed, and produced by 2004 graduates Daffodil Altan, a Berkeley Journalism lecturer and FRONTLINE producer and correspondent, and documentary filmmaker and Professor Andrés Cediel has been named a finalist for the 2022 duPont-Columbia Awards. The documentary, co-produced by María José Calderón (’09), examined how the absence of workplace protections for essential…
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Some of us arrived at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism as well-seasoned journalists. Others came here from entirely different academic backgrounds. However, we all have one goal in common: to produce creative, impactful journalism that will make the world sit up, listen, and understand. This is the type of journalism that Michael Learmonth, class…
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Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, I am thrilled to announce that Dr. Tracy Pascua Dea will be assuming a new, expanded role at Berkeley Journalism as the Executive Director of Student Services and Chief Diversity Officer. When Tracy joined our School in Spring of 2020 as the Senior Director of Student Services, we did not anticipate…
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Christine Schiavo has spent 30 years in the trenches of local journalism and seen its struggles firsthand: layoffs at The Philadelphia Inquirer, the loss of nearly the entire copy desk at The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and the permanent closure of that paper’s newsroom last year. But even as staff and resources shrank and…
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Five alumni from the Berkeley Journalism school community were honored, some multiple times, in nominations announced July 27 by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the 42nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards. The News & Documentary Emmy Awards honor programming content from more than 2,200 submissions. They originally premiered in calendar-year…
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From the Ida B. Wells Society For Investigative Reporting, a news trade organization which seeks to raise the awareness of, and opportunities for, investigative reporting among journalists of color: June 14, 2021 Serginho Roosblad will be joining the global investigative team at The Associated Press as the first hire in a new program developed…
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The work of a Berkeley Journalism lecturer, five students and two alumni was honored in the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes, in the Breaking News, National News and Public Service categories, Columbia University announced. Abbie VanSickle was a key member of the staff of The Marshall Project that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a…
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The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has selected 60 nominees that represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2020. The nominees were chosen by a unanimous vote of 19 jurors from over 1,300 entries from television, podcasts/radio and the web in entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, public service…
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For Alyssa Jeong Perry (’16), the recent wave of anti-Asian violence has underscored the need to report on the diversity within the Asian American community. Perry, who is Korean American, is a producer at National Public Radio’s “Code Switch” podcast, where she feels fortunate to be able to report deeply on issues of race, ethnic…
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For Jimmy Tobias (’16), investigative reporting is a lot like building a trail. “It’s a slow, deliberate enterprise that rewards experience and attention to detail,” he said. Tobias knows quite a bit about both. Before attending Berkeley Journalism, he worked as a wilderness trail technician for the U.S. Forest Service and the Montana Conservation Corps, which he describes…
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