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Top 9 Things I’ve Learned from My Summer Internship

[…] 9 Things I’ve Learned from My Summer Internship We’re halfway through the summer, and Berkeley J-School students are scattered around the globe working in a variety of internships. Whether joining the staff of an established news team, working with a small documentary crew or pursuing an independent project, second-year students are finding their summer […]

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News & Documentary Emmy nominations for more than a dozen alums

UC Berkeley Journalism alums were nominated for multiple 2025 News & Documentary Emmy Awards announced by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on May 1. Winners will be announced at two ceremonies, on June 25 and 26, in New York City. Nominees include: Jeffrey Plunkett (’05), showrunner and an executive producer of “Trafficked…

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Berkeley Journalism Quarterly Newsletter

[…] our alums, donors and friends — are a huge part of these successes. Your donations big and small last year enabled us to fund 29 newsroom summer internships, ensuring that no student was compelled to work for free. Read below about our efforts to raise $35,000 this fall to help the next generation of […]

A newspaper article titled "Julian Assange and the War on Whistle-Blowers," written by Edward Wasserman, Dean of Berkeley Journalism. The text discusses Assange's imprisonment, extradition, and the implications for government secrecy and journalism ethics. The publisher is The New York Times, dated April 27, 2019.

Dean Edward Wasserman Op-Ed in NYT: Julian Assange and the Woeful State of Whistle-Blowers

Opinion Julian Assange and the Woeful State of Whistle-Blowers As the media’s indispensable helpmates, don’t they deserve constitutional protection too? By Edward Wasserman Dr. Wasserman is the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. April 26, 2019 Illustration by Adam Maida; Photographs by aaaaimages and Boris Roessler/picture alliance, via Getty…

J298 Covering the Election

This course will explore how to cover campaigns and elections — in the middle of the 2024 campaign and election cycle. Students will learn the basics of how to cover candidates and campaigns: how to source, how to avoid being spun, and how to connect campaign rhetoric with the pressing issues that shape people’s daily…

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Students win SPC Scholarships

2011 Journalism scholarships awarded to Kevin Fixler ’12 and Christina Lopez ’12 at the Sacramento Press Club luncheon.

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Berkeley Journalism Honors Pride Month

Dear Berkeley Journalism Community: I would like to take the opportunity during Pride Month—celebrated annually in June to honor the historic Stonewall Uprising in New York City in 1969—to reiterate our commitment to make the School inclusive and welcoming for all. Three years ago, we put up a Pride flag during Pride Month and decided…

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Berkeley Journalism announces faculty hires

Berkeley Journalism is proud to announce that it has hired two talented journalists and educators, both women of color, onto its prestigious faculty after a nationwide search. The hiring of Lisa Armstrong and Shereen Marisol Meraji reflect the School’s goal of taking the limits off who gets to be a journalist by determining who trains…

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Geeta Anand named director of Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program

Geeta Anand, acting professor of reporting at the Graduate School of Journalism, has been named director of the School’s Investigative Reporting Program (IRP). Prof. Anand had been serving as interim director since July under Prof. David Barstow, who leads the IRP as the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Journalism. During her time…