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Berkeley Journalism Announces New Advisory Board Members Ron Nixon and Andrea Wishom Young

The Graduate School of Journalism of the University of California, Berkeley, is proud to announce two new members to our distinguished advisory board: Ron Nixon and Andrea Wishom Young. Nixon leads global investigations at The Associated Press, and Wishom Young is a veteran television producer. They join an advisory board comprised of some of the…

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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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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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Berkeley Journalism alumni discuss covering extraordinary election

Every four years, voices in the political industrial complex proclaim the upcoming presidential election the most important of our lives — perhaps even the most important since some long-ago marker like the Civil War. Each election, we’re told, is a fight for the very soul of America!  This year is certainly no different, but what…

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Clara Mokri (‘21) named Jim Marshall Fellow for Photojournalism

Clara Mokri, a second-year documentary student at Berkeley Journalism, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the fifth Jim Marshall Fellowship for photojournalism.  The fund was created in 2015 after an exhibit of Marshall’s work at the School’s Reva and David Logan Gallery of Documentary Photography. Named after renowned photographer Jim Marshall, the fellowship…

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Berkeley Journalism’s 7 Mastercard Foundation Scholars

Growing up in Sudan, Alsanosi Adam knew one thing for certain: “Southern Sudan is a place you go to die.” This was during the Second Sudanese Civil War, the brutal, 22-year conflict between the country’s central government and the south’s resistance forces. In school, no one believed his South Sudanese classmates about their homeland’s peace…

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Recent grads’ COVID-19 reporting appears in The New York Times and PBS NewsHour

Alyson Stamos (’20) and Meiying Wu (’20) reveal how early planning and communication spared San Francisco’s Chinatown from the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. In January, Meiying Wu (’20) had flown to China for Chinese New Year. Unlike previous holiday visits, she couldn’t go out to see family and friends. An epidemic had started in…

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Important Message from Berkeley Journalism: No More

[…] the high-quality, in-person classes on which this School’s reputation was built. We’ve raised new funding to allow our second-years to conduct summer projects despite drastically reduced employer-funded internships. We’ve got new leadership for the fall in our audio and documentary programs. And the School has already set an extraordinary new milestone, led by our […]

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Alumni Portrait: Rudabeh Shahbazi

By Aashna Malpani (‘21) Rudabeh Shahbazi has trudged alone through swamps and braved unbearable heat and cold, laden with heavy camera equipment, just to get a story. She graduated from the J-School in the middle of an economic downturn but was willing to do all that work solo just to make it. “While other Berkeley…

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National Association of Black Journalists at UC Berkeley Career Fair, Saturday, November 2

[…] is open to undergraduate and graduate students from universities and colleges in the Bay Area. Our desired goal is to match companies with the ideal candidates for internships, fellowships, and full-time jobs. WHEN: Saturday, November 2, 2019 12:00-5:00PM WHERE: Anna Head Alumnae Hall, UC Berkeley Campus The Anna Head Alumnae Hall entrance for the […]