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Faculty, Students and Alumna Honored at SPJ James Madison Freedom of Information Awards

On March 16, the Society of Professional Journalists’ Northern California chapter honored students Ari Sen, Freddy Brewster and Katie Licari-Kozak, lecturer Jim Wheaton and alumna Sukey Lewis at the 37th annual James Madison Freedom of Information Awards. Jim Wheaton was honored with the Norwin S. Yoffie Career Achievement award. A founder of the Environmental Law…

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Celebrating Women’s History Month

Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, In the face of overwhelming odds and geopolitical conflict, women rise. It gives me great joy to celebrate Women’s History Month at Berkeley Journalism. When I think of women blazing a trail in the field of journalism, the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa comes to mind. As co-founder of…

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Traci Curry’s (‘05) “Attica” Nominated for Best Documentary at the 2022 Academy Awards

Berkeley Journalism alumna Traci Curry (’05), co-director and producer of the Showtime feature-length documentary “Attica,” was a finalist for best Documentary Feature at the 2022 Academy Awards. “Attica” details the five-day rebellion that transpired in 1971 at the state prison  in upstate New York and remains the deadliest prison uprising the country has ever witnessed.…

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Celebrating Early Diversity Initiatives at Berkeley Journalism: An Essay by Professor Bill Drummond

  More than 200 Black journalists studied at Berkeley Journalism during the ’70s and ’80s in a landmark summer diversity program many know nothing of. They went on to work for news organizations around the country. Some went on to win national recognition, including the Pulitzer Prize. At a conference for newspaper executives in 1978,…

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Berkeley Journalism hiring temporary, part-time instructors for spring 2022

J255 Journalism Ethics — (7 weeks; 3 teaching hrs/wk) This is a required class for all students on the values and rules guiding journalism practice. This class should begin with the overriding ethical principles of journalism, then delve into case studies and contemporary ethical dilemmas often encountered by media professionals. Areas could include the evolving…

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Kristen Hwang (‘21) Wins Student Academy Award for Best Documentary

Kristen Hwang’s thesis documentary, “When They’re Gone,” about humanity’s fragile dependence on nature and the consequences of industrializing honey bees for crop pollination, has won the top honor for student documentary filmmaking in the 48th Student Academy Awards. Hearing the news, Hwang said, “Never in a million years could I have imagined my film being…

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Dean Geeta Anand on making Berkeley Journalism accessible to all

Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, As we enter National Disability Employment Awareness Month, I write to express my commitment to fostering an inclusive institution where each of you is celebrated for your abilities every day of every month. So many people in our lives are touched by some form of disability. Some of us have  sensory…

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Berkeley Journalism Emeritus Professor, current student and alumni nominated for Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

Lecturer Abbie VanSickle and researcher Michelle Pitcher (’21) were named one of six finalists, and Emeritus Professor Lydia Chávez, Molly Oleson (’13) and Stephen Hobbs (’14) semi-finalists in the annual Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.

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Alumni Portrait: Reporter Parker Yesko of investigative podcast “In The Dark”

Parker Yesko (’16) always knew she wanted to be a criminal justice reporter. But she never would have predicted that just two years out of journalism school, her work would help to overturn a murder conviction and set a man free. About a year after graduating from Berkeley Journalism, Yesko landed a job as an…

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In the Bay Area, hope and anxiety

BY BRIAN HOWEY AND STEVEN RASCÓN  NOVEMBER 5, 2020 As President Trump and his supporters moved to stop the counting of mail-in votes in key battleground states yesterday, local activist groups greenlighted rallies in several Bay Area cities. Their message was simple: count every vote. Anxious, scared, but cautiously optimistic, hundreds of protesters peacefully gathered in parks and…