2023 Journalism Showcase

Profiles

Class of 2023

Schedule - Day One:

Wed, May 10

Schedule - Day Two:

Thu, May 11

Schedule - Day Three:

Fri, May 12

Showcase Venues

Map & Directions

Friday, May 13

Sutardja Dai Hall - UC Berkeley Campus

There will be overflow seating in the Logan Multimedia Center, Room 142 North Gate Hall.

Photojournalism

11:00 - 12:00pm

In-Person Location:

310 Banatao Auditorium - Sutardja Dai Hall

On March 11, 2011, a massive tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake in Japan disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, releasing a large amount of radiation. I will show you the photos that capture what Fukushima looked like on the eve of the eleventh anniversary of the accident.

A peek into a 5 year olds life through a mother's journalistic lens.

Real Eyes magazine is an advanced an in-depth documentary project class where students work photographing and investigating problems and stories facing California and its people and try to visually document the causes and effect, issues such as wildfires, schools, homelessness, urban sprawl, development etc.
 
For the 19th edition of Real Eyes, 10 photojournalists take the viewer from the San Francisco Bay Area, to the San Joaquin Delta, Napa Valley and then into the Sierra Nevada mountains to explore concepts of place, home, work, family and survival in the Golden State.
 
This year's Real Eyes magazine was produced by Dereka Bennett, Eliza Partika, Isaac Ceja, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Katie Rodriguez, Kori Suzuki, Mathew Miranda, Melissa Perez Winder, Nekia Daste, and Semantha Raquel Norris. Ken Light supervised production and Christine Schiavo provided editing support.

12:00 - 12:30pm

Break

Documentary

12:30 - 4:30pm

In-Person Location:

310 Banatao Auditorium - Sutardja Dai Hall

When Snap Inc. sees her child’s lost life as the cost of doing business, a grieving mother sets out to change the way social media works.

The legal fight against pregnancy discrimination has left one mother, and her family, spread thin.

An airman’s suicide leaves her family with lingering questions and a feeling of abandonment.

Project description TK.

Public High School students in the Bay Area are being overworked and don’t have the resources to handle stress or anxiety, which, after the pandemic, has led to a rise in suicide and hospitalizations. Mental health stigma is only making the problem harder to solve.

Messengers follows the Wiseman family and student activists Avani Gireesha and Amy Bone, on their journeys to end intergenerational mental health stigma and overwork in California Public Schools, which will ultimately lead to better mental health help and resources for students. It will also follow their personal experiences with mental health challenges within familial, scholastic and communal settings.

A newfound newspaper editor navigates grief while saving California’s oldest weekly paper.

An international team of marine biologists is investigating a mysterious gray whale die-off along the North American West Coast.

4:30 - 6:00pm

Reception: 
Join us in the North Gate Hall Courtyard for food and drinks.