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Lauren Schwartzman Named One of Three Winners in Student Academy Awards

By Javaria Khan (‘19) Documentary filmmaker and 2018 J-School graduate, Lauren Schwartzman, was on her way to meet a sound recordist for coffee when she got the call. She was excited and humbled but had to keep her focus on microphones and mixers. On any other day, that would be normal for a documentary filmmaker.…

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Drew Costley Awarded Jim Marshall Fellowship for Photojournalism

  The fourth annual Jim Marshall Fellowship for photojournalism has been awarded to second-year student Drew Costley. Costley, originally from Arlington, Va., has redirected his energies to photojournalism after having focused on writing for 15 years. “I chose photojournalism because I want to visualize the stories of those who have spent too long living in…

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Alumni Portrait: Washington Post National Security Correspondent Nick Miroff

Nick Miroff doesn’t write about the happiest stories in the world. Soon after he started full-time at the Washington Post, there was the massacre at Virginia Tech. He covered opioid addiction in Appalachia before the rest of the country knew the devastating extent of the crisis. Earlier this year, he laid out what would happen…

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Edward Wasserman on Fake News and the Threat to Democracy

On Sept. 21, 2017 Edward Wasserman, Ph.D, Dean and professor of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism was the keynote speaker at California State University, Bakersfield’s Kegley Institute of Ethics 13th Annual Fall Lecture. The lecture, titled, “Fake News and the Threat to Democracy,” explores the difference between fake and real news, the gray…

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Overseas Press Club Foundation Winners

Mateo Hoke ’14 and Xiaoqing Pi ’13 won the 2013 Overseas Press Club Foundation Award.

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Electrifying report on TIME.com

Mark Oltmanns ’12 had his report, “Electrifying India”, published on TIME.com. The report was filmed during the India Travel Class here at the J-School.

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2025 Media Mayhem draws more than 100 recruiters to connect with students and recent grads

[…] in March, co-hosted by the school’s National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) student chapter, connected more than 120 recruiters with students and recent graduates about jobs and internships across the news industry. Recruiters came scouting for interns, fellows, freelancers, full-time hires and students to consider for future openings. “The most exciting thing for me […]

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Prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting awarded to Berkeley Journalism alums for IRP/SF Chronicle collaboration

Alums Katey Rusch (’20) and Casey Smith (’20), have won the 2025 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for “Right to Remain Secret,” the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government announced in an awards ceremony today. The winning two-part investigative series, a collaboration between UC Berkeley’s Investigative…

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[…] audio storytelling. The program gave me the opportunity to learn from some of the best producers, editors and hosts in the field, and access to Berkeley exclusive internships that have impacted my career for the better. Through the courses, I was able to gain experience in field production, audio reporting, editing, engineering and sound […]

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IRP Fellowship Winners Announced

The Investigative Reporting Program of the Graduate School of Journalism today announced its 2011-2012 Fellows in Investigative Reporting.