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Berkeley Journalism students Karla Caraballo-Torres, Alondra De La Cruz, Lorin Eleni Gill and Francesca Fenzi have been named Hearst Fellows. The fellowships, established by the Hearst Foundation in 2016, has provided $200,000 in financial aid over the past three years to 10 promising second-year students. Karla Caraballo-Torres, from Falls Church, Va. is a bilingual multimedia…
[…] Journalists Student Projects in Detroit. He’s soon to graduate from Rutgers University with a double major in Urban Studies and Theater Arts-Filmmaking. Skyler’s journalism experience also includes internships with NBC Bay Area and NBC10 Philadelphia, and the Shingetsu New Agency in Tokyo, Japan. Brooke Henderson is a senior at the University of Florida, majoring […]
Five students from the Class of ‘20–Amy Mostafa, Eric Murphy, Lulu Orozco, Katey Rusch and Brandon Yadegari–have been awarded Helzel Fellowships at the Graduate School of Journalism. The fellowship was established in 2017 by siblings Deborah Kirshman and Larry Helzel, board members of the Oakland-based Helzel Family Foundation. The goal of the fellowship is “to…
The Investigative Reporting Program’s PBS Frontline documentary “Trafficked in America” has been named one of seven finalists for the prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School. “Trafficked in America” investigates how teenagers from Central America were smuggled into the U.S. by traffickers who promised them jobs and a better…
He’s been threatening for years. But this time it’s real. Lowell Bergman is retiring. Briefly. In June, Bergman will step aside as the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor in Investigative Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. A month later, he’ll be back as an emeritus chair who will continue…
Second-year master’s candidate Eva Rendle has been named the recipient of the newly established $3,000 Brian A. Pollack Documentary Film Scholarship. The fellowship, established in 2018, is awarded annually to a promising student of documentary selected by the prestigious program’s faculty. Brian Pollack…
Bo Kovitz, a second-year graduate student in filmmaking, has been named this year’s Marlon T. Riggs Fellow. Named for the late J-School alumnus and professor Marlon T. Riggs (’81), the $10,000 fellowship was created in 2014 through the efforts of Vivian Kleiman, Riggs’ former collaborator. Funding was provided by Riggs’ Oakland-based production company Signifyin’…
The Student Leadership Committee, or the “TLC” as it is known in the hallways of the School, is back— with a fresh set of faces and voices— to continue a longstanding tradition of serving the needs and answering the questions of students in both years. In simple terms, the TLC is a group of first-…