Journalism

Jason Berry to Speak at GUH Symposium “Techniques of Memory”

Techniques of Memory Landscape, Iconoclasm, Medium and Power April 17 – 18, 2019, 7 pm David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA The Global Urban Humanities Initiative is excited to invite investigative reporter and author Jason Berry to speak on “Jazz as Urban Memory” and moderate the…

Visiting Scholar Talk: Steffen Moestrup — 9/18/2017

The Journalist as a Performative Persona Steffen Moestrup’s research critically investigates what we might term persona-driven journalism. He analyzes how journalistic personas are created and used across different types of media and how the interaction between old media and new media plays into such processes. Considering persona-driven journalism as performances,…

Soref Fellowship — Applications accepted now

The Washington Institute’s Soref fellowship is for those with an advanced degree who are considering whether to pursue a career in government or journalism. The fellowship is a one-year research position, designed primarily for those who have recently earned a PhD related to U.S. foreign policy or…

Job Opportunity at Blendle for Journalists

Blendle is a media startup from the Netherlands, looking to transform the world of high quality journalism. Blendle allows readers to buy individual articles from a range of premium publishers and publications for a few cents a pop. Launched in 2014, and counting well over 500,000 users in Holland and Germany,…

“The Berkeley Graduate” Offers a Another Student Perspective

Check out the The Berkeley Graduate, the Graduate Assembly’s online publication by, for and about graduate students. At their site you will find articles on students, events, research, academic life, science and technology, politics, op-eds, entertainment, and more. In their words: “Its goal is to inform…

Conversations with Tavis Smiley — 2/21/2014

The NABJ Student Chapter of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Department of African American Studies welcome the American talk show host, author, liberal political commentator, entrepreneur, advocate, and philanthropist Tavis Smiley for an engaging conversation. Light refreshments will be served. February 21, 2014 at 3:30-5:00…
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Investigative Reporting Program Wins Prestigious DuPont Award

The Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism recently won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for broadcast and digital news for the documentary “Rape in the Fields.”
Angela Hart posing with Barack Obama

J-School student wins WHCA Scholarship and meets President Obama

Angela Hart, a student in the Graduate School of Journalism, was a recipient of the 2013 White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) Student Scholarship. In April, Hart attended the WHCA awards dinner in Washington D.C. and a luncheon with President Obama.
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Grad students’ film ‘Presumed Guilty’ wins an Emmy for best investigative journalism

In light of the competition, Roberto Hernández didn’t expect to take home a trophy from September’s News & Documentary Emmy ceremony in New York. But win he did — for outstanding investigative journalism — along with his wife and fellow UC Berkeley grad student, Layda Negrete, and fellow makers of Presumed Guilty ("Presunto Culpable").
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The Peace Corps is very Berkeley

In the half century since the Corps was founded, UC Berkeley has supplied more volunteers than any other university in the U.S. — over 3,400 in more than 120 countries.
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Threesomes get noticed

Two trios of grad students made the news recently, not for their trinity but for the interesting work they've been doing in very different fields.
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Profile: Eve Ekman

A family group closely associated with the Graduate Division is well-represented in the trust-themed Fall '08 issue of Greater Good, in a feature called "Can I Trust You?".