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A woman stands on a circular stage giving a TED Talk. Behind her is a large screen displaying a scientific diagram, and there are smaller screens with her image and name, Jennifer Kahn. The audience is seated in a semi-circular arrangement, captivated by the insights Jennifer shared in the March 2016 Dean's Letter.

Dean’s Letter – March 2016

March 2, 2016 Warm greetings from North Gate Hall: Sometimes things happen the way they’re supposed to, and virtue is rewarded. We’ve been having a strong run of good news, I’m pleased to report, from faculty and alums nominated for Oscars and drawing stellar reviews for new books and TV productions, to current students honored…

Dean’s Letter – March 2015

[…] alike reported success, and we’re going to do it again this fall. We’re also offering students who already have solid newsroom experience a summertime alternative to traditional internships, if they have projects they want to undertake or educational options that would broaden their competencies—my own favorite is intensive language immersion, since too many of […]

A large group of graduates in caps and gowns poses together outdoors on a sunny June 2016 day. They stand on a curved pathway in front of a building surrounded by greenery and trees. Some graduates wear honor cords and sashes, while others are dressed in academic regalia, proudly holding the Dean's Letter.

Dean’s Letter – June 2016

June 3, 2016 Warm greetings from North Gate Hall: Under a blazing Berkeley sky we sent the Class of ’16 on its way a few Sundays ago. It was the biggest graduating class in recent memory (66 grads) as well as the most international (nearly 28 percent, from 12 countries.) It was a remarkably accomplished…

Dean’s Letter – June 2015

June 9, 2015 Warm greetings from North Gate: Whether you’re student, teacher, or staff, the end of the school year comes like the sprint at the end of a distance event, and you wind up feeling much the same mix of pride and exhaustion. This year’s harvest of student work—presented, for the first time, in…

2017 Logan Symposium

The 11th Annual Reva & David Logan Symposium on Investigative Reporting Friday, April 28-Saturday, April 29, 2017

Since 2007, the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program has hosted a “by invitation only” symposium each spring in honor of the Reva and David Logan Foundation, which endowed the program. The only symposium of its kind in the country, it routinely brings together a veritable “who’s who” of top journalists, law…

Abramson

Jill Abramson speaks at 2015 commencement honoring this year’s J-School grads

[…] for KCRW’s Vulnerable Populations Project and Richmond would take on a full time job at NPR’s “Morning Edition.”   During their tenure, the class of 2015 completed internships from Hong Kong to Buffalo. They went on reporting trips that brought them from the shark-infested waters of western Australia to the chocolate factories of Hawaii, […]

A nighttime view of the Venetian Macao, a large, well-lit hotel and casino resort in Macau. The image showcases the resort's towering structure, intricate architecture, and gondola-filled canals reminiscent of Venice, Italy, with city lights in the background—a focus of Reuters/IRP collaboration on organized crime.

Reuters/IRP collaboration into organized crime in Macau launches

The Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) at the Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley, announces the publication of a major investigation by one of our 2009-2010 IRP Fellows.

Undergraduate Minor In Journalism

Wojcicki Online Journalism Program Take Journalism Courses Online this Summer Berkeley Summer Sessions welcomes a diverse range of students, encompassing UC Berkeley degree-seeking students, students from other UC campuses, visiting scholars from across the United States and abroad, and members of the general public. Whether pursuing academic advancement or advancing your skillset, Berkeley Journalism online…

In this still from an officer’s body camera video, Thompson Nguyen walks through a South San Jose power plant, carrying a metal pipe and an ax and yelling, “Shoot me.”

Losing control: When San Jose police confront people in mental health crisis, why do they end up hurting them so often?

A first-of-its-kind investigation finds that huge proportions of the people officers beat, tase, shoot and kill are mentally ill or intoxicated By ROBERT SALONGA | rsalonga@bayareanewsgroup.com, HARRIET BLAIR ROWAN | hrowan@bayareanewsgroup.com and LISA PICKOFF-WHITE, KQED | This story was originally published by The San Jose Mercury News on October 8, 2023. Pictured above: In this…

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Why did Oakland’s Measure QQ fare so much better than other youth vote propositions in California?

November 16, 2020 Elena Neale-Sacks Oakland’s Measure QQ, which allows 16-year-olds to vote in school board elections, became the sole youth vote measure in California to pass in this election, with over 67% of the vote. San Francisco’s Proposition G—which would have let 16-year-olds vote in all city elections—is projected to fail by a margin…