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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…

Alumni Portrait: Reporter Parker Yesko of investigative podcast “In The Dark”

Parker Yesko (’16) always knew she wanted to be a criminal justice reporter. But she never would have predicted that just two years out of journalism school, her work would help to overturn a murder conviction and set a man free. About a year after graduating from Berkeley Journalism, Yesko landed a job as an…

Berkeley Journalism Announces New Advisory Board Members Ron Nixon and Andrea Wishom Young

The Graduate School of Journalism of the University of California, Berkeley, is proud to announce two new members to our distinguished advisory board: Ron Nixon and Andrea Wishom Young. Nixon leads global investigations at The Associated Press, and Wishom Young is a veteran television producer. They join an advisory board comprised of some of the…

2022 Media Mayhem Career Fair A Huge Success

On Saturday, April 2, Berkeley Journalism and its NABJ student chapter co-hosted the third annual Media Mayhem career fair and networking event. Eighty-four recruiters from across the country attended the gathering to scout for interns, full-time hires and students to track for future openings. Participating students included members of Berkeley Journalism’s classes of 2021, ’22,…

Berkeley Journalism’s 7 Mastercard Foundation Scholars

Growing up in Sudan, Alsanosi Adam knew one thing for certain: “Southern Sudan is a place you go to die.” This was during the Second Sudanese Civil War, the brutal, 22-year conflict between the country’s central government and the south’s resistance forces. In school, no one believed his South Sudanese classmates about their homeland’s peace…

Berkeley Journalism alumni discuss covering extraordinary election

Every four years, voices in the political industrial complex proclaim the upcoming presidential election the most important of our lives — perhaps even the most important since some long-ago marker like the Civil War. Each election, we’re told, is a fight for the very soul of America!  This year is certainly no different, but what…

Alumni Portrait: Radio Correspondent Jason Margolis

Jason Margolis (second from left) interviewing sugar farmers in Brazil for The World in 2014. (Photo courtesy Jason Margolis.)

Recent grads’ COVID-19 reporting appears in The New York Times and PBS NewsHour

Alyson Stamos (’20) and Meiying Wu (’20) reveal how early planning and communication spared San Francisco’s Chinatown from the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. In January, Meiying Wu (’20) had flown to China for Chinese New Year. Unlike previous holiday visits, she couldn’t go out to see family and friends. An epidemic had started in…

Faculty, Students and Alumna Honored at SPJ James Madison Freedom of Information Awards

On March 16, the Society of Professional Journalists’ Northern California chapter honored students Ari Sen, Freddy Brewster and Katie Licari-Kozak, lecturer Jim Wheaton and alumna Sukey Lewis at the 37th annual James Madison Freedom of Information Awards. Jim Wheaton was honored with the Norwin S. Yoffie Career Achievement award. A founder of the Environmental Law…

Alums win big at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards

Several alumni of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism graced the stage at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards.