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@ucbsoj
Berkeley Journalism
4 years
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.
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🎙 @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
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Berkeley Journalism
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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
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Berkeley Journalism
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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
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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.
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Berkeley Journalism
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🎓 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
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🔥 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
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Berkeley Journalism
2 years
Alum @AllisonPDavis ('10) got a *bit* of a scoop this week in @NYMag ... . #MeghanMarkle #journalism #profile
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Berkeley Journalism
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@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.
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Berkeley Journalism
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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: .
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💥 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" !
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Berkeley Journalism
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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
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Berkeley Journalism
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🎥 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
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Berkeley Journalism
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Reporter Sawsan Morrar ('18) has been named a 2017 White House Correspondents' Association Scholar. Congratulations!
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Berkeley Journalism
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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
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Berkeley Journalism
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🎥 Filmmaker Skyler Glover ('21) has been awarded a $10,000 @NABJ / @Facebook Journalism Project Scholarship! #proud @UCBerkeley #thefuture 👇🏿
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Berkeley Journalism
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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
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Prof @michaelpollan 's 'In Defense of Food' becomes a @PBS documentary @idofmovie in December! http://t.co/RNGJjKd1fU http://t.co/DCB69wKzuC
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👇 Big news: Award-winning @nytimes investigative reporter @jodikantor , breaker of Harvey Weinstein scandal will be the Class of 2018's commencement speaker! 🚺 💪 #luckyus
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Berkeley Journalism
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Congrats to the 1st cohort selected for the Ferriss-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship: @jonathan_moens , @shayla__love , Kenya Denise @DominoSound , @londonoe , @OliviaGoldhill , @kimondegreef , @cassadyariel & @bikejournalist ! Next deadline 7/31 .
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Berkeley Journalism
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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
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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).
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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
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Berkeley Journalism
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🔥 Alum @BrettMmurphy ('16) named #PulitzerPrize Finalist for @USATODAY stories on shocking conditions for port truckers. Brett began reporting this series at the Investigative Reporting Program at @UCBerkeley 's Graduate School of Journalism: #proud @Cal
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Berkeley Journalism
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Ladies and gentlemen, we proudly present #thefuture of #journalism 👇 Welcome #UCBSOJ20 !
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Berkeley Journalism
3 years
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
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Berkeley Journalism
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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
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Berkeley Journalism
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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
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Berkeley Journalism
4 years
Don't miss: @wkamaubell in conversation with our own Chan’Cellore Makanjuola ('21) @cityartssf ! Friday, November 20 12PM Pacific Time #journalism #race #Blackexcellence #virtualevent
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Berkeley Journalism
2 years
“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)
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Berkeley Journalism
4 years
Lawyer/journalist Gisela Pérez de Acha ('20) reported on @nytimes visual investigations team's remarkable 'Siege of Culiacán' @TheWeekly , reconstructing eyewitness videos on Sinaloa cartel's brutal response to Mexico's failed try to capture #ElChapo son: .
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Berkeley Journalism
3 years
Yuriria Avila's ('21) work on this @nytimes dataviz on racial disparities in the #vaccinerollout is incredible.
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Berkeley Journalism
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Reporter @jeremiahorhodes ('24) and his 1A @sfchronicle story on long-term HIV survivors finding familial support in a unique S.F. group home. Part of @UCBerkeleyIRP 's "Aging in America" series: . #proud @UCBerkeley
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Berkeley Journalism
3 years
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
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As part of #WomensHistoryMonth we celebrate Geeta Anand, the first woman to serve as dean of Berkeley Journalism! #proud @UCBerkeley #glassceiling #genderequality
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Berkeley Journalism
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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 👇🏿
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Berkeley Journalism
8 years
Don't miss Dr. David Tuller's report on #CFSME treatment 'worse than the disease,' in @MIT 's @undarkmag : #health
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Berkeley Journalism
4 years
Clara Mokri ('21) selected for the prestigious #EddieAdamsWorkshop honoring the country’s most talented young photographers! #proud @UCBerkeley
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Berkeley Journalism
5 years
🎥 📺 Beautiful afternoon for a @60Minutes B-roll shoot @UCBerkeley with @ucbsoj Prof. @michaelpollan for an upcoming @andersoncooper segment.
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Berkeley Journalism
2 years
Welcome to the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Class of 2024! Photo: @jenniferrwiley ('23)
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Berkeley Journalism
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🎓 Ladies and gentlemen, we proudly present #thefuture 👇 #UCBSOJ18
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Berkeley Journalism
3 years
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
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Berkeley Journalism
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Sofie Kodner ('22) with her front page story about the lack of wi-fi in SF’s SRO buildings, in today's @sfchronicle ! #proud @UCBerkeley
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Berkeley Journalism
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@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:
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Berkeley Journalism
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🔥 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.
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Berkeley Journalism
3 years
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 .
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Berkeley Journalism
2 years
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
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Berkeley Journalism
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Got a good psychedelic story? Apply for $10K Ferriss Fellowship from @UCBerkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics to report in-depth print and audio stories by 7/31: . @WritersofColor @najournalists @POCinAudio @NABJ @NAHJ @aaja
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Berkeley Journalism
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Producer/directors Clara Mokri and Katie Bernstein (’21) shooting their thesis doc out on the water in Sausalito, CA. #thefuture 👇🏿
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Berkeley Journalism
7 years
🎥 Alum Brad Bailey ('17) named one of three winners in Student Academy Awards for best Documentary: #PROUD @Cal
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Berkeley Journalism
4 years
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
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Berkeley Journalism
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Congratulations alum @singeli @nytimes ! Her @TheWeekly series with @rcallimachi @tadashi_lives & @samdolnick 'Collision'—about a 29 y/o American couple who quit their office jobs to bike around the world— tragically killed by ISIS in Tajikistan received 3 #NewsEmmys nominations!
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Berkeley Journalism
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A hat-tip to all of the incredible women graduates of The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism on #InternationalWomensDay ! #inspiring #womenwholead #RebeccaSolnit
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Berkeley Journalism
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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
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Berkeley Journalism
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👏 The promotion of Richard 'Koci' Hernandez to associate professor with tenure has been approved by @UCBerkeley ! #thefuture #journalism
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Berkeley Journalism
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🍀 Good luck tonight to all of our faculty, students and alumni honored with News & Documentary Emmy nominations! We could not be prouder @cal + @UCBerkeley . Special thanks to our partners @frontlinepbs & @propublica . #NewsEmmys 🏆
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Berkeley Journalism
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Major @frontlinepbs and @AP investigation on mass confinement of migrant children—produced by @ucbsoj alums & current students— airs tonight on @pbs : #proud @ucberkeley
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Berkeley Journalism
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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.
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Berkeley Journalism
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The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship offers ten $10K reporting grants for in-depth print and audio stories. Apps due 1/31! @SciPsychedelics @ScienceWriters @columbiajourn @MedillSchool @Open_Notebook @WritersofColor @POCinAudio @NABJ
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Berkeley Journalism
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🎓 Screenshots from the first virtual commencement in our 50 year history. It felt just as happy somehow. Bravo Class of 2020 🍀! #thefuture 👇🏿
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Berkeley Journalism
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**Special event notice** 'Fighting the Disinformation Machine: Social Media and the Future of Journalism'—a @calperformances livestream event with @tristanharris #TheSocialDilemma & Dean @GOAnand —Wed, Feb 10 7pm (PST) Free registration: .
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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
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Berkeley Journalism
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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
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Berkeley Journalism
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🇲🇽 Special @NAHJ_UCB #event with #Mexico 's Carmen Aristegui & Lowell Bergman will #livestream at: on 4/21. #Trump
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Berkeley Journalism
4 years
Yuri Ávila ('21) has been awarded @IRE_NICAR 's Jennifer Leonard Scholarship— established by reporter @DavidCayJ —to attend the #NICAR2020 Conference in New Orleans March 5-8. #proud @UCBerkeley #MoreLatinosInNews
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Berkeley Journalism
9 years
#DavidCarr gave us the wonderful gift of insight & humor as our 2014 commencement speaker. We are deeply saddened.
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Berkeley Journalism
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The sky over North Gate Hall at @UCBerkeley . #sublime
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Berkeley Journalism
2 years
Bravo Sakura Cannestra ('23), selected for this year's @politico Journalism Institute cohort! #proud @ucberkeley Photo: @koritsuzuki ('23)
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Berkeley Journalism
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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 👇🏿
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Berkeley Journalism
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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
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Berkeley Journalism
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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 @UCBerkeley
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Berkeley Journalism
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🎓 ICYMI: @mikiebarb Host of "The Daily" @nytimes will be the Class of 2019 #commencement speaker in May! #luckyus
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Berkeley Journalism
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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.
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Prof. David Barstow and the new guard of investigative reporting @UCBerkeley . Photo: @BuddyTerry ('23)
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Berkeley Journalism
8 years
📷 of the day? 'Politically Reactive' podcast hosts @harikondabolu & @wkamaubell in North Gate Studios. #daymade #Election2016 #comedy
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Berkeley Journalism
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🎓 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. 🥂
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Berkeley Journalism
3 years
UC Berkeley ranked best public university in US, 4th overall
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Berkeley Journalism
6 years
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
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The Atlantic
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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:
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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.
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Berkeley Journalism
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🎓 Congrats to our Class of 2018 student commencement speakers Ryan Lindsay and Sawsan Morrar! 🔥 #thefuture @Cal
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Berkeley Journalism
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Skyler Glover ('21) named Marlon T. Riggs Fellow in documentary filmmaking | UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
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Berkeley Journalism
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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
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Berkeley Journalism
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🌱 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
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Laurence Du Sault ('20) of  @OpenVallejo  has been named one of three @propublica Local Reporting Network Fellows reporting on law enforcement and public corruption: .  #proud #ucberkeley
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