Reporting on China

Unique among American journalism programs, Berkeley Journalism’s China Reporting Project gives our journalism students a head start on covering China’s culture, history and politics. Launched in 2022, the project is part of the school’s renewed focus on international reporting.
The need couldn’t be more urgent: Recent hostility and harsh rhetoric between the United States and China has become unnecessarily overheated, even dangerous. How Americans understand their relationship to China matters to all of us.
Led by lecturers like veteran New York Times reporters Edward Wong and Amy Qin, the project gives a select group of students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge and reporting skills. By the end of the class, students will have produced a body of work that’s publication-ready, too.
Thanks to the generous gifts by Berkeley alum Bak Chan, a board member and past president of the UC Berkeley California Alumni Association Chinese Chapter, Berkeley Journalism also provides tuition support to an incoming Berkeley Journalism student with a demonstrated interest in covering China.
Bak explained that he supports the China Reporting Project because he “truly believes that the future relations between these two countries that so many of us care so passionately about can be positively shaped by outstanding journalism.”
You won’t just report about these countries, you’ll report from these countries.
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