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Since its founding 52 years ago during Berkeley's watershed Free Speech Movement, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism has graduated more than 2,000 students. Alumni have gone on to win virtually every major industry award and to staff--and run--the country's top news organizations. Widely regarded as one of the country's best journalism programs, it is also one of the only remaining two-

year master of journalism programs in the United States and is the only graduate-level journalism program in the vast, publicly funded University of California system. The School's core master's program enrolls approximately 120 students, while its summer-only journalism minor serves another 300 undergraduates. Its Investigative Reporting Program routinely produces award-winning reports for national media outlets, and its UC Berkeley Advanced Media Institute (BAMI) offers certification courses in specialized training for mid-career professionals.

Please join us for a talk at Berkeley's Hillside Club on Monday, June 1: "The State of Journalism in 2026," featuring Sa...
05/22/2026

Please join us for a talk at Berkeley's Hillside Club on Monday, June 1: "The State of Journalism in 2026," featuring San Francisco Chronicle editor-in-chief Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, UC Berkeley Journalism Dean Michael Bolden and Trust Project CEO Sally Lehrman. RSVP at the eventbrite link below. The event is free and open to the public.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fireside-meeting-june-2026-registration-1988042195724?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true&fbclid=IwY2xjawRwk-9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFtNnQ4V0ZodkpWVHR3Y2lIc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHpiIrWxcxMB17p_YuLJGQtX4uKSLEVdx3aEJ56ke6aoPj6Gm-GOyLs_niFq2_aem_Bjw8RKIpiqyklUZvDfg5EQ

A Discussion on the State of Journalism in 2026

05/16/2026

Alumni reporting on last year's most urgent stories in California, the nation and the world earned one of journalism’s highest honors.

🎓 What wonderful, inspiring work from the Class of 2026, presented during our first two days of Showcase at Berkeley Art...
05/16/2026

🎓 What wonderful, inspiring work from the Class of 2026, presented during our first two days of Showcase at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and North Gate Hall. We could not be prouder.

Photo 1: The doc cohort by Xavier Zamora ('27)
Photo 2: The multimedia cohort by Richard H. Grant ('26)

https://journalism.berkeley.edu/event/class-of-2026-commencement/

🎥 Such a great first-year Doc Showcase last night!Congratulations Dune Strickland, Michael Han, Joshua Olawuyi, Yumo Lu,...
05/08/2026

🎥 Such a great first-year Doc Showcase last night!

Congratulations Dune Strickland, Michael Han, Joshua Olawuyi, Yumo Lu, Shreya Mishra, Dan Chamberlain, Laurata Pechuqui and Charlie Wang. Your work was incredible.

Special thanks to their instructors | mentors Cassandra Herrman, Amy Ferraris and Chris O'Dea, pictured at left.

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🎉 UC Berkeley Journalism alumni Susie Neilson (’19) at the San Francisco Chronicle, Garance Burke(’04) at The Associated...
05/05/2026

🎉 UC Berkeley Journalism alumni Susie Neilson (’19) at the San Francisco Chronicle, Garance Burke(’04) at The Associated Press and Kathleen Hennessey (’04) at the Minnesota Star Tribune were named 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners by the Pulitzer Board at Columbia University yesterday! Another eight Berkeley Journalism alumni were honored as part of award-winning or finalist teams.

“We are extraordinarily proud of our alumni for stories that illuminated facts in dark places and chronicled humanity in the face of brutality,” said Michael D. Bolden, dean of UC Berkeley Journalism. “The Pulitzers are exciting and gratifying, but the real prize is the powerful impact of these stories on people and communities, rights and rule of law.”

From top left: Garance Burke, Susie Neilson, Kathleen Hennessey, Cynthia Dizikes, Serginho Roosblad, Nick Miroff, Joaquin Palomino, Brett Murphy, Andy Mannix, Tracy Weber and Maggie Beidelman.

Read about the winners, finalists and stories below.

https://journalism.berkeley.edu/2026-pulitzer-prizes/

Pulitzer Prizes UC Berkeley

Eleonora Bianchi (’22) of the New Bedford Light - A community-news organization and Leah Rosenbaum (’19) of The War Hors...
05/04/2026

Eleonora Bianchi (’22) of the New Bedford Light - A community-news organization and Leah Rosenbaum (’19) of The War Horse have been named finalists in the 2026 INNY Awards, honoring the best in nonprofit newsgathering!

Bianchi is a finalist for “Hidden In Plain Sight,” a contender for the Insight Award for Visual Journalism. The photographs are a documentary exploration of ICE activity in the community. “The photos have humanity and a sense of immediacy, as if you are living the horror,” the judges said.

Rosenbaum is a finalist in two categories: an Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism for “Terminating Treatment” for The War Horse, and Journalism Collaboration of the Year for The War Horse and NPR for a series exposing companies charging vets for free benefits.

Institute for Nonprofit News

INN will announce award winners during a ceremony in Pittsburgh on June 16.

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