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Alum/lawyer Gisela Pérez de Acha ('20) part of
@nytimes
visual investigations team's
#NewsEmmy
win for Coverage of a Breaking News Story for Siege of Culiacán
@TheWeekly
, reconstructing eyewitness videos on Sinaloa cartel's response to Mexico's failed try to capture
#ElChapo
son.
🎙
@EarlonneWoods
will be the Class of '20 commencement speaker! He's the co-producer/ host/creator
@earhustlesq
, a recent Pulitzer Prize–finalist podcast on the daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it & post-incarceration stories from the outside.
#proud
We are very proud to announce the Class of 2021's commencement speaker will be award-winning journalist, author, teacher, trailblazer, role model and needle-mover Maria Hinojosa, founder
@futuromedia
, anchor & executive producer
@LatinoUSA
& so much more!
#grateful
@UCBerkeley
The Class of 2021's commencement speaker this weekend will be award-winning journalist, author, teacher, trailblazer, role model and needle-mover
@Maria_Hinojosa
, founder
@futuromedia
, anchor & executive producer
@LatinoUSA
& so much more!
#grateful
#calgrad
Berkeley Journalism announces new Spring 2022 instructors: The hires reflect the school’s goal of taking the limits off who gets to be a journalist by impacting who trains and mentors them.
🎓 ICYMI:
@EarlonneWoods
@earhustlesq
will be the Class of '20 commencement speaker! Proud to host the recent Pulitzer Prize–finalist reporting on the daily realities of life inside prison & post-incarceration stories from the outside.
#Graduation2020
@UCBerkeley
🔥 We are very proud to announce that the Class of 2023 commencement speaker will be Corey Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist
@propublica
and co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society!
#commencement2023
@UCBerkeley
@Cal
@chefjoseandres
@chefjoseandres
We are currently offering $10K fellowships for print and audio journalists wanting to address issues like food-related crises you mention. Program founded by
@michaelpollan
. Deadline 3/15. Would love a reTweet.
The California Local News Fellowship program— a path-breaking initiative funded by the people of CA and signed into law by Gov. Newsom last year—announces its inaugural cohort of 39 journalists who will fan out to local newsrooms across the state: .
💥 4
@ucbsoj
alums: Julie Johnson ('09), Robert Digitale ('79), Brett Wilkison ('08) & Diane Peterson ('82) win Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News "For lucid and tenacious coverage of historic wildfires that ravaged the city of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County" !
Nazmul Ahasan ('23) and his A1
@sfchronicle
story on Internet entrepreneurs far from the U.S. taking advantage of political division — and inflaming it — to juice sales of t-shirts and other novelty products: . Photo:
@koritsuzuki
('23).
#proud
@ucberkeley
🎥 Native American director
@Tsanavi
Spoonhunter's ('20) thesis documentary 'Crow Country: The Right to Food Sovereignty'—following tribal members navigating a food apartheid and fighting for a better future for their community—awarded
@BerkeleyFilmFdn
funding!
#proud
@UCBerkeley
José Andrés Fellow
@xxjdv
's ('23) investigation on teenage farmworkers—written through the informed lens of personal experience and those of "invisible" workers as young as 15— runs in
@TeenVogue
!
#proud
@ucberkeley
TY
@chefjoseandres
It is with great pleasure we present the Class of '23! These are the carefully selected journalists we will invest our hearts and minds & souls in training over the next 2 years. We are so thrilled they chose us.
#inspired
@UCBerkeley
#thefuture
👇 Big news: Award-winning
@nytimes
investigative reporter
@jodikantor
, breaker of Harvey Weinstein scandal will be the Class of 2018's commencement speaker! 🚺 💪
#luckyus
Bestselling author & Prof.
@michaelpollan
's latest book "This Is Your Mind on Plants" (Jul 06, 2021)—a unique blend of history, science, memoir, as well as participatory journalism—available for preorder now: .
#proud
@UCBerkeley
Announcing a $10 million gift to
@UCBerkeley
Journalism from Angela and David Filo! “Great journalism is essential to a thriving democracy. We have to invest in training the next generation of journalists..." said Angela Filo ('99).
Welcome to UC Berkeley
@erikaaaguilar
, director of podcasts
@KQED
—where she sets strategy and develops new content—teaching J212 Advanced Audio! Erika has been a producer, reporter, anchor and editor during her 15 years in public radio.
#luckyus
@ucberkeley
Niema Jordan (MJ/MPH'16) was story producer and Bo Kovitz (’19) co-story producer on the docuseries
#TheMeYouCantSee
—exploring mental health and emotional well-being—directed by
@dawnporter
, EP's
@Oprah
& Prince Harry, premiering May 21: .
#proud
Bravo to the two students selected by their peers to be Class of 2023 commencement speakers: Nazmul Ahasan and MJ Johnson!
This is a high honor here at the school and reflects the respect each of them has earned. Please join us in congratulating them.
#proud
@UCBerkeley
Pedro Cota (‘20) producing the NASA en Español broadcast of the Perseverance landing on Mars—
@NASA
's *first ever* Spanish-only broadcast of a planetary landing—from
@ucbsoj
.
#proud
@UCBerkeley
“To be here at Berkeley and to be awarded the Marlon T. Riggs Fellowship is the highest honor. To know that Riggs showed up as his whole self, through his work as a filmmaker, is a beautiful affirmation for me."
--Bashirah Mack ('22)
Coral del Mar Murphy-Marcos ('23)—a bilingual reporter from Manatí, Puerto Rico— named Carr Fellow in Business at the New York Times!
#proud
@UCBerkeley
#thefuture
The Class of '22 didn't get to take their group photo last fall due to COVID. We're *so* thrilled to have these exceptional journalists back at North Gate Hall. Watch them all shine. Photo:
@BuddyTerry
('23).
#proud
@UCBerkeley
#thefuture
👇🏿
Alum Shuang Li ('20) wins Jury Award for Best Asian American Student Filmmaker for her thesis doc 'The Long Wait'— about 3 Chinese women claiming their reproductive rights— at the Directors Guild of America's Student Film Awards!
#proud
@UCBerkeley
@aterkel
Apply to be a
@ucbsoj
Food Fellow (a program founded by
@michaelpollan
&
@mwollan
). $10,000 to report a longform print or audio story on issues related to food, health, and agriculture. Applications due March 15. All info and application here:
🔥 Casey Smith ('20) holding the May 12, 2020 front page of The New York Times featuring her & Katey Rusch's story on how Santa Clara District Attorneys field thousands of complaints re stay-at-home violations, from our special collaboration
@nytimes
.
We could not be prouder.
Idris Mukhtar ('22) produced a devastating report on the state of the pandemic in Kenya for
@CNN
: Due to vaccine skepticism, coffin makers say they’re busier than ever, while official data tells "only a small fraction of the full story," with
@scottmclean
.
Berkeley Journalism announces new reporting on China initiative. The full semester course is being co-taught by New York Times reporters
@ewong
&
@amyyqin
, two of the top journalists covering China.
#journalism
#gradschool
Director Tsanavi Spoonhunter's ('20) thesis documentary Crow Country: The Right to Food Sovereignty—on tribal members navigating a food apartheid & fighting for a better future—won Best Documentary Short at the American Indian Film Festival!
#proud
#AIFF45
Print and audio journalists: Apply to be a
@UCBerkeley
11th Hour Food & Farming Journalism Fellow! $10K to report a long form print or audio story on food, health, agriculture, climate change +. Deadline 3/15.
@WritersofColor
@POCinAudio
@NABJ
@NAHJ
Berkeley Journalism announces the expansion of its popular summer journalism minor year-round! The addition of fall and spring classes marks the return of a regular-term undergraduate journalism degree program at
@UCBerkeley
not available since the 1970s.
Dean
@GOAnand
welcomes the Class of '23, an amazing and diverse group from all over the country and world, from North Carolina to Nigeria.
#letsdothis
@UCBerkeley
Iqra Salah ('23)—a former reporter & researcher for the BBC in Kenya covering breaking news in Central and East Africa— has been named a
@pulitzercenter
Reporting Fellow! Her project will look at stateless people in Zimbabwe: .
#proud
@UCBerkeley
In just a few short days, the resilient, can-do journalists from the Class of 2021 will graduate. Their thesis projects—all produced within the constraints of COVID19— showcased this week, have been outstanding. We honestly could not be prouder.
#GoBears
#thefuture
👇🏿
When your name appears on 1A
@nytimes
for the very first time...Congrats to
@nabjucb
's Daniel Lempres ('21) & team for this 💔 report on the pandemic's impact on child abuse investigations for our 'Chronicling COVID-19' project: .
#proud
@UCBerkeley
Visual journalist Clara Mokri ('21) and filmmaker, photographer and journalist Rosa Tuirán ('20) (originally scheduled to attend in 2020) selected for the 2021 New York Times Student Journalism Institute!
#proud
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Join us in welcoming back to North Gate Hall Nani Sahra Walker ('18), an award-winning documentary filmmaker and immersive producer
@latimes
! She'll be teaching J282: Introduction to Visual Journalism to the next generation. Lucky us.
🎓 Tomorrow's the big day for the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Class of '20: the chroniclers, tellers of the tales, keepers of the conscience & the collective memory, the ones who bear witness. Please join us in celebrating this extraordinary group of journalists. 🥂
Each day this week,
@TheAtlantic
will be publishing stories from 'Unequal from Birth,' a remarkable series exploring the vast racial & economic
#inequality
in
#Fresno
, CA produced by 7 students in our '17-18 new media workshop. Watch for videos, dataviz & more.
#proud
@UCBerkeley
In Fresno, California's poorest large city, a legacy of housing discrimination and segregation has lasting effects for the city's most vulnerable residents.
@ReisThebault
reports:
Barbara Harvey ('20), Alex Matthews ('20) & Yuriria Ávila ('21) part of
@nytimes
team that creates stunning, historic 1A without images—instead passages from newspaper obits across the country—to convey the vastness and variety of lives lost to Covid-19.
Where are they now?
@brandonyadegari
('20) is a Climate Justice Fellow
@HighCountryNews
. For 6 months, he’ll be producing videos on disproportionate impacts of climate change on immigrant, Native & low-income communities in the Southwest.
#proud
@UCBerkeley
🌱 10,000 years after humans figured out how to plant seeds/grow food, 3/4 of the seed varieties on earth have become
#extinct
. Lecturer Mark Schapiro's new book reveals pressing threats to the security of world food supply. Available 9/18 .
#climatechange