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Journalists with a passion for reporting on food and agriculture will have a chance to pursue their interest yet again, owing to The 11th Hour Project, a program of The Schmidt Family Foundation created by Berkeley Journalism alumna Wendy Schmidt (’81). The 11th Hour Project funds 10 Food and Farming Journalism fellowships of $10,000 each.…
Dr. Elena Conis, a 2004 graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has been promoted to associate professor at the School. Conis, a writer and historian specializing in medicine, public health, and the environment, has 14 years of teaching experience. Since returning to Berkeley in 2016, she has taught J200, the School’s intensive…
If any journalist can attest to the value of digging into surprising finds or leveraging even the most tenuous connections, it’s The New York Times’ David Gelles. That kind of tenacity got the reporter and columnist a Page 1 credit in the Times when he was five weeks into journalism school and, several years later,…
Logan photojournalism Prof. Ken Light collaborated with East Bay musicians Los Cenzontles on a remarkable music video installation featuring dozens of images taken of migrants along the US/Mexico border by Light over four decades. The images, curated from Ken’s books “Valley of Shadows and Dreams” and “To The Promised Land” provide a graceful and illuminating…
Award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter, whose acclaimed four-part documentary series “Bobby Kennedy For President” debuted on Netflix this month, is joining the faculty of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. As adjunct professor of documentary, Porter will teach production and will serve as lead adviser to the School’s documentary students and as interim director…
Author, foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Geeta Anand is joining the faculty of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Anand has been a journalist for 27 years, specializing in investigative reporting and narrative writing. A graduate of Dartmouth College, she began her career at newspapers in New England where she covered courts, crime…
It was April 1992, and Sam Green had never been to Los Angeles before. A first-year student in the School of Journalism’s documentary program, he had volunteered to help a classmate shoot a video story on bilingual education in the city. It was a Wednesday, and the two friends had packed their supplies and one…
(From left to right: Alex Nieves, Alondra De La Cruz, Abené Clayton and Sarah Hoenicke. Mallory Newman not pictured.) Five first-year students–Abené Clayton, Alondra De La Cruz, Sarah Hoenicke, Mallory Newman and Alexander Nieves–have been awarded the first Helzel Fellowships at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The fellowship was established in 2017 by…
(From left to right: Rachel Loyd, Pablo De La Hoya and Briana Flin) Photo Credit: Rosa Furneaux (’18) For Rachel Loyd, a Master of Journalism degree from UC Berkeley is the first step towards a bright career as a multimedia journalist. But the financial reality of attending graduate school almost put her dreams out of…