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Dean Geeta Anand statement in support of Asians and Asian Americans

Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, I want to express solidarity with our Asian and Asian American communities who have experienced a surge in unprovoked and violent attacks in recent months, fueled by the racist rhetoric from politicians blaming China for the Covid-19 pandemic. We have a long and painful history of bias and xenophobia against Asians…

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Honoring Our Black Community in Black History Month

Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, Here’s what we’re reflecting on at Berkeley Journalism during Black History Month, and some ways you can join us in our journey toward creating a better world.  Who is in the newsroom matters. Black voices matter. A 2018 survey from the Pew Research Center found that 77 percent of newsroom employees…

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Meet our New Fall 2020 Instructors

Berkeley Journalism has hired veteran radio producer and senior editor of the Weekend Desk at KQED Queena Kim (’00) as head of our audio program and Jonathan Blakley, executive director of radio programming at KQED to co-teach advanced radio with current lecturer Ethan Lindsey. To teach our introduction to reporting classes, we hired Yumi Wilson, a former news reporter and editor for…

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Christine Schiavo joins IRP as local news editor

  (Berkeley, CA) — We’re pleased to announce that Christine Schiavo is joining Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program as local news editor. In this new role, Schiavo will be leading coverage of Berkeley Journalism’s two community news sites,  Richmond Confidential and Oakland North. She will work closely with journalism students to produce a broad range…

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Prof. Mark Danner recounts his experience at the Capitol riot

Prof. Mark Danner recently wrote a remarkable story ‘Be Ready to Fight’ documenting his experience in Washington on January 6 attending the Trump rally and the attack on the Capitol that followed. Prof. Danner holds a joint appointment at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Department of English.  Mark Danner has written about foreign affairs and American politics for more than…

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Dean Geeta Anand’s statement on mob attack on the U.S. Capitol

January 6, 2021 Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, I write to say to our fellow journalists covering the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol that we are thinking of you and grateful that you are doing the important job of accurately and courageously reporting the news. We are watching with horror the images being shared of…

Investigative Reporting Program

VIEW by Media Platform: Audio Journalism Documentary Video Journalism Photo Journalism Narrative Writing Multimedia VIEW by Special Topic: Investigative Reporting Program

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Berkeley Journalism establishes community fellowships with Richmond Pulse

To invest in the city of Richmond, a Bay-area community long reported on by our student publishing site Richmond Confidential, Berkeley Journalism has established a fellowship program with the youth-led, local community news outlet Richmond Pulse. The idea was spurred by students in Dean Geeta Anand’s class in 2018—when she was the J200 instructor for…

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Wesley Lowery joins Berkeley Journalism as IRP’s Special Projects Editor

BERKELEY, CA — Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Wesley Lowery is joining Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program as Special Projects Editor this semester. Lowery is leading a team of graduate students investigating police misconduct in the United States, and he’s offering advice and guidance on other IRP investigations. Lowery is currently a correspondent for 60 in 6, a…

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Alumni Portrait: Bestselling Author Terry McMillan

At the outset of her undergraduate time at UC Berkeley, Terry McMillan did not have a major. When it came time to declare, she told a school counselor that she wanted to do sociology. “Why?” he asked. “I said, ‘I care about the human race,’” she remembers replying, “‘and how we treat each other and,…