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Jason Hanasik Selected as First Virtual Reality Intern at LA Times

First-year Berkeley J-School student Jason Hanasik will be interning at The Los Angeles Times this summer as the news organization’s first virtual reality (VR) intern, a field journalists are paying closer attention to as it grows in popularity. VR aims to give users an immersive experience by allowing them to interact with a 360-degree visual…

Dean’s Letter – November 2016

November 16, 2016 Warm greetings from North Gate Hall: The fall term is hurtling toward an unusually eventful close. The electoral outcome not only triggered fevered talk about press failings, social media power, and the need for a courageous Fourth Estate. It also touched off several nights of raucous street protest in Oakland, which J-students…

Portrait: National Association of Hispanic Journalists Chapter at the J-School

Back row (left to right): Gabriel Tolliver (’17), Robin Simmonds (’17), Pablo De La Hoya (’18)
Front row (left to right): Jackeline Luna (’18), Raquel Dillon (’07), Angelica Casas (’17), Mariela Patron (’17), Akira Olivia Kumamoto (’17), Juan Reyes (’17). Photo: Joe Bush (’17).

Dean’s Letter – March 2017

March 30, 2017 Warm greetings from North Gate Hall: Keeping up with the flood of news about our students, teachers and alums is one of the true pleasures of this job. The latest happenings include a continuing cascade of honors for our journalists, a two-week Robert Frank photography show that brought hundreds to North Gate Hall,…

Serginho Roosblad named Marlon T. Riggs Fellow

Photo: Raffi Roy (’18) A multilingual international student and former radio reporter has been awarded one of Berkeley Journalism’s top honors. Serginho Roosblad (’18), a documentary film student whose most recent work focuses on telling stories about homelessness and displacement, is winner of this year’s Marlon T. Riggs Fellowship in Documentary Filmmaking. Named for the…

Alumni Portrait: NPR Editor and Correspondent Ron Elving

It was luck more than anything that got one of the country’s foremost Washington, D.C. journalists into the news business in the first place. Ron Elving, senior editor and correspondent at NPR’s Washington Desk, went to Stanford University without giving The Stanford Daily much thought. He got a Master’s in English from the University of…

April 2019 Dean’s Letter

Dear friends of Berkeley Journalism, Our Spring Welcome visit, which gives recently admitted applicants a chance to see the School up close so they can decide if they want to come, is a powerful reminder of just how strong the appeal of journalism remains. Despite the anti-media cynicism and disparagement that they’ve grown up with,…

Clara Mokri (‘21) named Jim Marshall Fellow for Photojournalism

Clara Mokri, a second-year documentary student at Berkeley Journalism, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the fifth Jim Marshall Fellowship for photojournalism.  The fund was created in 2015 after an exhibit of Marshall’s work at the School’s Reva and David Logan Gallery of Documentary Photography. Named after renowned photographer Jim Marshall, the fellowship…

Dean Geeta Anand on making Berkeley Journalism accessible to all

Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, As we enter National Disability Employment Awareness Month, I write to express my commitment to fostering an inclusive institution where each of you is celebrated for your abilities every day of every month. So many people in our lives are touched by some form of disability. Some of us have  sensory…

Alumni Portrait: Rudabeh Shahbazi

By Aashna Malpani (‘21) Rudabeh Shahbazi has trudged alone through swamps and braved unbearable heat and cold, laden with heavy camera equipment, just to get a story. She graduated from the J-School in the middle of an economic downturn but was willing to do all that work solo just to make it. “While other Berkeley…