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Honor & Awards
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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Berkeley Journalism is proud to announce it has hired the pioneering documentary filmmaker, journalist and media industry trailblazer Jason Spingarn-Koff to lead an effort to reinvent journalism about climate change. After a monthslong, nationwide search, the school selected Spingarn-Koff as the new professor of journalism and Knight Chair of Climate Journalism. Knight Chairs in Journalism…
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On May 9, alumnae Sarah Cahlan (‘19), Ariel Plotnick (‘18) and Emma Brown (’09) were among the staff at The Washington Post awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the costs, causes and aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection. And Alsanosi Adam (’16) of NPR was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in…
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Joey Horan (‘22) has been named the Brian Pollack Fellow in Documentary Filmmaking at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The $5,000 fellowship, established in 2018, is awarded annually by a committee of the program’s faculty to a promising second-year documentary film student with a passion for tackling social justice issues and exploring the…
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Kristen Hwang’s thesis documentary, “When They’re Gone,” about humanity’s fragile dependence on nature and the consequences of industrializing honey bees for crop pollination, has won the top honor for student documentary filmmaking in the 48th Student Academy Awards. Hearing the news, Hwang said, “Never in a million years could I have imagined my film being…
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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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We’re proud of the recognition Berkeley Journalism students get from outside entities, ranging from Student Oscars and BAFTAs to Emmy Awards to Online News Association prizes. But every year we also convene representatives of our own community to decide whom they want to single out for outstanding first and second-year work that exemplifies what the…
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced shortlists in nine categories for the 93rd Academy Awards. In this most prized of lists is “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution,” competing for Best Documentary Feature. “Crip Camp,” which premiered on Netflix, is about a groundbreaking summer camp in the Catskills in the 1970s—”a…
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A six-month investigation of California police officers with criminal records, led by Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) and the Bay Area News Group (BANG), was honored this month by the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. “California’s Criminal Cops,” which exposed hundreds of current and former police officers with rap sheets across the…
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Director and producer Lucas Guilkey’s (‘19) thesis film, “What Happened to Dujuan Armstrong?” has been named one of three documentary finalists in the 2020 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Student Film Awards. The recognition follows a string of successes for the film, a deeply reported and beautifully filmed story about a mother’s…
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