UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

2 months ago | journalism.berkeley.edu | Marlena Telvick

Dear Berkeley Journalism Community,Our hearts go out to you and yours in the Los Angeles-area who have been contending with the devastating fires and aftermath. And thanks to all of the devoted journalists who are covering this ongoing crisis. At a time of turmoil in our natural and political worlds, it feels more important than ever to be a journalist and to be in a position to educate future journalists.

2 months ago | journalism.berkeley.edu | Marlena Telvick

Applications are open now through February 15 for the Bloomberg Business Journalism Diversity Program, in partnership with UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The program welcomes undergraduate students who are interested in learning about business journalism, and they’ll explore how journalists report effectively on the economy, companies, financial and commodity markets, government and labor, where wealth and power converge.

Jan 24, 2025 | journalism.berkeley.edu | Marlena Telvick

The competitive Marlon Riggs Fellowship that honors filmmaker Marlon T. Riggs (’81) — now in its tenth year — has been awarded to UC Berkeley Journalism Documentary Program students Neenma Ebeledike (’25) and Zane Karram (’25). The fellowship celebrates the life and work of Riggs, an alum who taught in the school’s Documentary Program more than three decades ago. He died at age 37 in 1994.

Jan 9, 2025 | journalism.berkeley.edu | Marlena Telvick

Two current Berkeley Journalism students and 15 alumni were honored last month in the San Francisco Press Club’s 47th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards, which celebrate the best journalism from the region. The winning entries represent extraordinary local reporting on everything from the housing and mental health crises, to deadly interactions with law enforcement officers regionally, to local election and immigration coverage and the safety of countertop fabrication workers.

Dec 20, 2024 | journalism.berkeley.edu | Marlena Telvick

First-year UC Berkeley Journalism graduate student Erin Sheridan (’26) has been named this year’s Dorothea Lange Fellow by a multidisciplinary panel of judges. The judges, who are photographers, curators and academics, also awarded Fikremariam Gedefaw, a Ph.D. student in political economics at Haas School of Business, an Honorable Mention.