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David Simon: Writer-in-Residence
A former reporter for the Baltimore Sun, the creator and writer of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire and Generation Kill, will visit classes and give talks at the J-School from Sept. 8-10.

J-School Welcomes Three New Hires
Gina Rieger has been appointed Assistant Dean for School Relations, while two nationally-distinguished Multimedia Journalists, Richard Koci Hernandez and Geeta Dayal, are now on board to lend training expertise and vision to the School's Ford Foundation-funded Digital News Project.

Welcome Class of 2010!
The J-School is pleased to welcome 59 new students who have come to Berkeley from around the nation, and countries as varied as Iraq, Spain, and Burkina Faso. See their photos from Orientation.

What's at Stake in Election 2008? Nothing short of the American Dream.
News 21 Fellows explore the tough choices facing Americans and the next president in battleground states across the country. Visit our website and watch for updates through November.

FRONTLINE/World Nominated for National Emmy Awards
Nine current and former J-School students and faculty worked on three FRONTLINE/World stories nominated recently for national news and documentary Emmy Awards, honoring superior work in online stories and video. (continue reading)

Berkeley Skills Displayed at Unity Conference in Chicago
Faculty, staff, students, and alumni traveled to Chicago for Unity '08, the biggest journalism conference of the year, recruiting new applicants, joining panels, and teaching multimedia skills to eager young participants.

School Wins Ford Foundation Grant To Develop Digital News Sites in Bay Area
The J-School is pleased to announce an exciting new teaching, research, and technology development initiative supported by a $500,000 Ford Foundation grant to produce digital news sites for San Francisco Bay Area communities. (continue reading)

Clay Felker Remembered
The legendary magazine editor was the namesake of the J-School's Felker Magazine Center, a distinguished member of the faculty, and beloved teacher.(continue reading)

Felker Magazine Center Wins Awards
The 2007 student magazine, J-Spam Magazine won the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for Region 11, taking 1st Place for Best Student Magazine. In addition Meghann Farnsworth, '07, won the Region 11 3rd Place award for Best Non-fiction Article. At the national level Edwin Okong'o, '07, won the Mark of Excellence award for Best Non-fiction Article and Shane Bauer won the Mark of Excellence award for Feature Photography.

Carnegie Approves New Berkeley Grant
The $375,000 award will support new J-School courses in a range of fields from Business to Public Health, and Key Issues and international travel classes. Read press release for more information about the Carnegie-Knight Initiative.

'Frontline' UC Berkeley Co-Production Wins Mirror Award
"News War" has won the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University's Mirror Award for Best Investigative Piece. The award honors the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public's benefit. The awards were presented on June 23rd in New York City.

'Frontline' UC Berkeley Co-Production wins NPC Award
"News War" has won the Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism honoring the year's best coverage of the media industry. Logan Professor Lowell Bergman was the series correspondent, lecturer Stephen Talbot was a producer and Marlena Telvick was the series associate producer. The awards will be presented in Washington on July 14.

"Mexico: Crimes at the Border," PBS FRONTLINE/World, Tuesday, May 27th
10:00pm KVIE CH-6 and KQED CH-9, June 10th at 9:00pm.
Investigative Reporting Fellow Andrew Becker's nine-month project, "Mexico: Crimes at the Border," a joint investigation by PBS FRONTLINE/World and The New York Times examines the increasingly lucrative business of human smuggling at the U.S.-Mexico border, and the American border officials corrupted by the trade. Through interviews and dramatic undercover surveillance video from U.S. law enforcement, Mr. Becker, along with correspondent Lowell Bergman and producer Oriana Zill, report on how this illicit and growing business has spurred an increase in corruption cases investigated by the FBI and other federal agencies across the southwest border. Berkeley alumni that worked on the documentary include: Andrew Becker, Andres Cediel, Matt Vree, Manal Ahmad, Charlotte Buchen, Josiah Hooper, Andi McDaniel and Alison Satake. An extensive website produced by Jackie Bennion and Matt Vree of FRONTLINE/World will go live immediately after the broadcast.

Winners In Competition For Investigative Reporting Fellowships
To help develop a new generation of investigative reporters in an era of cutbacks at major news organizations, UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism has announced the winners of three fellowships in investigative reporting. The competition was open to all working journalists, but preference was given to graduates of the master's program in journalism. Winners of the $45,000 full-time year-long fellowships are Jonathan Jones, a 2005 Berkeley graduate, Samuel Kennedy, a 2001 Berkeley graduate and Carrie Lozano, a 2005 Berkeley graduate. The fellowships are funded by the Sandler Foundation, the Gruber Family Foundation, Scott and Jennifer Fearon, Ian and Rita Isaacs and the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust. The fellowships will begin on September 1st.

Longform Class Launches TelevisionLives.org
Stories produced by the J-school's second-year longform television class can now be viewed at TelevisionLives.org. Cuban cowboys, Mongolian musicians and Mexican luchadors round out this year's batch of work. Stay tuned for more student productions, and feel free to leave your comments.

The Future of Investigative Reporting
Top brass from The New York Times, ‘60 Minutes', PBS ‘Frontline', The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News and NPR joined investigative reporters and editors from around the country, and non-profits like ProPublica to debate the future of investigative reporting April 25-27th at the Journalism School. Journalism professors and lecturers Lowell Bergman, Paul Grabowitz, Tom Goldstein, Sharon Tiller and Steve Talbot served on panels.

Frontline/WORLD Wins Webby People's Voice Awards
The 12th Annual Webby Award winners were announced last week.
Nearly 500,000 people voted online for their favorites in the People's Voice Awards, and FRONTLINE/World won two of them: for best online documentary series; and for best single episode of a news and politics series: "Dubai: Night Secrets" by jschool faculty Mimi Chakarova and alum Sachi Cunningham. The series is produced by lecturers Sharon Tiller and Steve Talbot. The production facilities and editorial offices for Frontline/WORLD across from the Journalism School are supported by the Reva and David Logan Family Foundation.

'Frontline' UC Berkeley Co-Production Earns Bart Richards Award
From Penn State
A four-part series produced by "Frontline" titled "News War" has won the 2007 Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism. The award is one of the few in the country to take a hard look at the media and the job being done by publishers, editors, and reporters. Logan Professor Lowell Bergman was the series correspondent, lecturer Stephen Talbot was a producer and IRP Deputy Director Marlena Telvick was the series associate producer. Eighteen current and former Berkeley students contributed to "News War." Major funding was provided by the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Foundation. Additional funding was provided by The Nathan Cummings Foundation and The Reva and David Logan Family Foundation. Students and alumni assisting in the production of "News War" were Jonathan Jones, Lee Wang, Matt Levin, Cathy Bussewitz, Sachi Cunningham, Josiah Hooper, Ariana Reguzzoni, Aaron Selverston, Zachary Stauffer, Kate Golden, Pamela Harris, Charlotte Buchen, Cerissa Tanner, Clayton Worfolk, Jason Blalock, Marjorie McAfee and Matt Levin and Aman Muhar.

J-School Alums at Washington Post
Earn Pulitzer
Chris Jenkins, class of 2000; Michael Chandler, class of 2005; Sandhya Somashekhar, class of 2006; Nick Miroff, class of 2006; and several dozen of their colleagues at the Washington Post have been awarded a 2008 Pulitzer prize for breaking news coverage of last year’s shooting rampage at Virginia Tech. As reporters on the Post’s Virginia desk, they traveled to the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg and worked round-the-clock to help piece together fragments of the worst school shooting tragedy in U.S. history. Prize money for the award is being donated to a scholarship fund honoring victims. Overall, the Post won six awards Monday, a record for the paper.

New Multimedia Projects
Students in the Advanced Multimedia class recently completed projects on the growing problems facing San Francisco taxi drivers , the weak state of the U.S. dollar, a look at the life and death of Harvey Milk and Dan White, and the life of immigrant stable workers at Berkeley's Golden Gate Fields .

NPR Segment on Video Game Class
National Public Radio has done a story about a Journalism School project to re-create Oakland's famed blues and jazz clubs scene from the 1940s and 1950s as a virtual world and video game. The project is a partnership between the J-School and the UC Berkeley Architecture School.

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