Lecturer/TSP Jobs

 

Fall 2025

Teacher of Special Programs (TSP)

5–7 hours per week for 15 weeks.

Berkeley Journalism is seeking Teacher of Special Programs (TSP) roles for teaching assistant positions for the J211 Introduction to Reporting Seminar classes. These positions support the main instructor for the course. Duties include meeting with students one-on-one to provide editing feedback on their stories, managing the story budget, prepping stories for publication, and some other logistical course support.

Summer 2025

(FILLED) J39 Fresh/Soph Seminar: Foundations & Practice of Journalism

Class time/format: In-Person
Jul 7 - Aug 15 | MTWTh 10:00am - 11:59am
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.

(FILLED) J100 Introduction to News Reporting

Class time/format: Online
Jul 7 - Aug 15 |  MTWTh 10:00am - 11:59am
This is an intensive introduction to the principles, practices, and fundamentals of what it means to be a journalist. Students will learn classic forms of reporting and news writing—including learning how to conduct interviews, gather information, and write quickly, concisely and accurately in a style that engages mass audiences. Students will meet professional practitioners and newsmakers, and will examine ethical issues that may arise in reporting, verifying and publishing information.

(FILLED) J110 Introduction to Multimedia Storytelling

Class time/format: In-Person
In-Person Jul 7 - Aug 15 | MTWTh 2:00pm - 3:59pm
Competence in the use of new media tools is essential for any communicator in the 21st century. This intensive introductory course teaches foundational skills for understanding multimedia and creating multimedia news packages. The course consists of lectures, guest-speakers, seminar-style discussions and lots of hands-on instruction: in video, photojournalism, audio, data and other elements that go into the creation of effective visual multimedia stories. No equipment is required; student smartphones will be their primary news gathering tool.

(FILLED) J111 Social Media Verification & Engagement

Class time/format: Online
Jul 7 - Aug 15 | MTWTh 12:00pm - 1:59pm
Social media has entered a new age of relevance, making it of critical interest to journalists and communicators of all kinds. This course will help students better understand and use social media by focusing on how social networks, conversational media, and associated digital media tools and platforms can be used to develop new sources, converse with end users, identify new ideas and emerging trends, aggregate and curate the work of others, and promote their own work.

(FILLED) J120 Digital Research & Investigative Journalism

Class time/format: Online
May 27 - Jul 3 | MTWTh 2:00pm - 3:59pm
Whether it’s matters of national security, public health, or official misconduct, investigative reporters play a crucial role in a democracy, exposing events, realities and conditions that powerful interests would often prefer kept quiet. The best investigative reporters – such as Woodward and Bernstein, Seymour Hersh, Glenn Greenwald – change the way we think about the world.

(FILLED) J130 Special Topics

Topic may include: AI & Journalism; Misinformation

Class time/format: Online
May 27 - Jul 3 | MTWTh 8:00am - 9:59am
Learn background and techniques for deepening your journalism skills and gain subject-matter expertise through intensive coverage of a single topical area. This course will explore the concepts and methods used by specialists to conduct inquiries that go beyond general reporting– including source development, finding and interpreting key documents, understanding important issues and how key institutions function.

ALL JOBS APPLY HERE:

https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04760

Please specify in your cover letter the position(s) you wish to be considered for.

Please contact Daniela Veneros, veneros_d at berkeley dot edu with questions.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status. The University of California, Berkeley is an AA/EEO employer.