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A smiling man with a bald head and light skin tone is standing in front of a blurred background. He is wearing a blue button-up shirt and a green corduroy jacket. The image is a close-up, showing his upper body and face, reminiscent of Jason Spingarn-Koff discussing climate change at Berkeley Journalism.

Jason Spingarn-Koff joins Berkeley Journalism faculty to transform climate change coverage

June 8, 2023

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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An image depicts a police officer in uniform with a hat and badge, but instead of a discernible face, it features a collage of blurred, different faces—a surreal portrayal that echoes themes often explored in Berkeley Journalism. The background consists of dark, stormy clouds.

“California’s Criminal Cops” wins investigative reporting, public service awards from Society of Professional Journalists

February 10, 2021

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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A newspaper article titled "Julian Assange and the War on Whistle-Blowers," written by Edward Wasserman, Dean of Berkeley Journalism. The text discusses Assange's imprisonment, extradition, and the implications for government secrecy and journalism ethics. The publisher is The New York Times, dated April 27, 2019.

Dean Edward Wasserman Op-Ed in NYT: Julian Assange and the Woeful State of Whistle-Blowers

April 30, 2019

Opinion Julian Assange and the Woeful State of Whistle-Blowers As the media’s indispensable helpmates, don’t they deserve constitutional protection too? By Edward Wasserman Dr. Wasserman is the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. April 26, 2019 Illustration by Adam Maida; Photographs by aaaaimages and Boris Roessler/picture alliance, via Getty…

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Investigative reporting professor Lowell Bergman to retire

January 14, 2019

He’s been threatening for years. But this time it’s real. Lowell Bergman is retiring. Briefly. In June, Bergman will step aside as the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor in Investigative Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. A month later, he’ll be back as an emeritus chair who will continue…

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Writer and historian Elena Conis (’04) awarded tenure

July 18, 2018

Dr. Elena Conis, a 2004 graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has been promoted to associate professor at the School. Conis, a writer and historian specializing in medicine, public health, and the environment, has 14 years of teaching experience. Since returning to Berkeley in 2016, she has taught J200, the School’s intensive…

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Geeta Anand joins faculty

May 23, 2018

Author, foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Geeta Anand is joining the faculty of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Anand has been a journalist for 27 years, specializing in investigative reporting and narrative writing. A graduate of Dartmouth College, she began her career at newspapers in New England where she covered courts, crime…

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Close-up of stacks of U.S. hundred-dollar bills secured with white bands. The focus is on the front faces of the bills featuring Benjamin Franklin's portrait. A red "PBS FRONTLINE" logo is positioned in the bottom right corner of the image, reminiscent of their Gerald Loeb Awards-winning coverage on Black Money.

“Black Money” collaboration with PBS FRONTLINE earns Gerald Loeb Awards nomination

July 9, 2010

“Black Money” has won an honorable mention in the enterprise television category in UCLA’s prestigious Gerald Loeb Awards, the highest honors in business journalism.

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