The J-School hosts numerous public events of interest to students and the general public. The events listed below are of particular interest to students in our program. Use the "Events View" picklist below to see events associated with other programs.
- Monday, June 10th, 2013-Friday, June 21st, 2013
- Multimedia Storytelling Institute
The changing landscape for journalism professionals requires a new skill set in multimedia content production. Register now for the kdmcBerkeley two-week Multimedia Storytelling Institute and prepare yourself for the new media environment.
- Wednesday, May 29th, 2013-Friday, May 31st, 2013
- Video Storytelling
Storytellers advance your digital communication skills at the kdmcBerkeley Video Storytelling Certificate Workshop.
- Saturday, May 4th, 2013
- Compexity & Context Data Symposium
Join kdmcBerkeley at the Complexity & Context Data Symposium as we explore the intersection between journalism and data. Hear from data visualization experts, news organizations and civic groups including Google, Code for America, Texas Tribune & Internews.
- Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
- Social Media Intensive
This one-day conference provides a framework for building your own bussiness plan based on a new understanding of how Social Media can grow your customer base and increase sales to current customers.
- Wednesday, July 25th, 2012-Friday, April 27th, 2012
- Video For Storytellers
This intensive three-day workshop is an immersion in digital storytelling. In addition to providing hands-on training in every phase of planning, production and digital delivery, you will also learn from master storytellers how to capture the attention of your audience and create engaging videos.
- Monday, July 23rd, 2012-Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
- Data Mapping for Beginners
This two-day workshop is a hands-on program focused on applying Geographical Information Systems (GIS) tools to visualize data with industry standard techniques. Participants will learn to utilize publicly available map files and data to build layered and informative maps.
- Monday, June 18th, 2012-Friday, June 29th, 2012
- Multimedia Storytelling Institute
The University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and The Knight Digital Media Center (KDMC) will present a two-week summer Multimedia Storytelling Institute focused on the needs of journalists and communications professionals internationally and the USA.
- Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
- Knight Digital Media Speaker Series January 2012
Will Sullivan, Director of Mobile News, Lee Enterprises
Will Sullivan is a 2010-2011 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow. Together with a team of Missouri School of Journalism students tested and reviewed 75 apps, accessories, web services and indispensable on-the-go gadgets for mobile reporting.- Monday, January 9th, 2012
- Knight Digital Media Speaker Series January 2012
Edward Segel, Financial visualization and interactive storytelling strategist at Bloomberg
Edward Segel shares with us how data storytelling and interactive narratives actually work and the economics and organizational design behind doing interactive visualizations at Bloomberg.- Sunday, January 8th, 2012
- Knight Digital Media Speaker Series January 2012
Bill Mitchell, former head of Entrepeneurial and International programs, The Poynter Institute
Join us as Bill discusses the new style of service journalism, one focused not on the particular pursuits of individual consumers but on the collective needs of communities faced with diminished journalistic resources.- Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
- Knight Digital Media Speaker Series December 2011
Engaging audiences with visual storytelling.
Richard Koci-Hernanadez, U. C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Richard Koci-Hernandez will deliver his sure-to-inspire presentation on crafting engaging video that communicate with clarity and effectiveness.- Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
- Knight Digital Media Speaker Series December 2011
Will Sullivan, Director of Mobile News
Join us as Will leads us on a tour of the latest generation of tools for mobile reporting. A 2010-2011 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow, Sullivan and a team of Missouri School of Journalism students tested and reviewed 75 apps, accessories, web services and indispensible on-the-go gadgets for mobile reporting.- Sunday, December 11th, 2011
- Knight Digital Media Speaker Series December 2011
Our world is changing, and the process is far from complete.
Tom Mallory, Homepage Editor, SignOnSanDiego.com
Tom Mallory will discuss creative destruction in our craft. His presentation will examine changing business models, rise of importance of user content, effective interaction with readers and the value of good journalistic practices in a digital world.- Sunday, June 13th, 2010-Friday, June 18th, 2010
- Knight Digital Media Center June 2010 Lecture Series
The Knight Digital Media Center Invites you to attend the guest speaker presentations for the June Multimedia and Convergence Workshop, in the J-school's Bayley Library. These presentations will also be webcast live and available the following week in streaming format.
- Sunday, May 16th, 2010-Friday, May 21st, 2010
- Knight Digital Media Center May 2010 Lecture Series
The Knight Digital Media Center Invites you to attend the guest speaker presentations for the May Multimedia and Convergence Workshop, in the J-school's Bayley Library. These presentations will also be webcast live and available the following week in streaming format.
- Monday, March 22nd, 2010-Friday, March 26th, 2010
- KDMC March Independent Journalists Workshop Presentations
The Knight Digital Media Center Invites you to attend the guest speaker presentations for the March Independent Journalists Workshop, in the J-school's Bayley Library. These presentations will also be webcast live and available the following week in streaming format.
- Monday, February 22nd, 2010-Friday, February 26th, 2010
- Knight Digital Media Center February Web 2.0 Training
The Knight Digital Media Center Invites you to attend the guest speaker presentations for the February Web 2.0 Training, in the J-school's Bayley Library. These presentations will also be webcast live and available the following week in streaming format.
- Sunday, January 10th, 2010-Friday, January 15th, 2010
- Knight Digital Media Center January 2010 Lecture Series
The Knight Digital Media Center Invites you to attend the guest speaker presentations for the January Multimedia and Convergence Workshop, in the J-school's Bayley Library. These presentations will also be webcast live and available the following week in streaming format.
- Monday, December 14th, 2009-Friday, December 18th, 2009
- Knight Digital Media Center December 2009 Web 2.0 Training for Journalists
The Knight Digital Media Center invites you to attend the guest speaker presentations for the December 2009 Web 2.0 Training for Journalists, in the Journalism School's Bayley Library. These presentations will be webcast live, and available as streaming video archives the following week.
- Tuesday, September 29th, 2009-Thursday, October 1st, 2009
- UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit
The UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit, an invitation-only conference sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism and Haas School of Business.
- Sunday, July 12th, 2009
- Knight Digital Media Center July 2009 Lecture Series
The Knight Digital Media Center's July 12-17 Multimedia Training Workshop for journalists is under way. For those not able to attend, we're webcasting most of our noon and evening presentations.
- Sunday, June 14th, 2009
- Knight Digital Media Center June 2009 Lecture Series
The Knight Digital Media Center's June 14-19 Multimedia Training Workshop for journalists is under way. For those not able to attend, we're webcasting most of our noon and evening presentations.
- Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
- Knight Digital Media Center May 2009 Lecture Series
The Knight Digital Media Center's May 17-23 Multimedia Training Workshop for journalists is under way. For those not able to attend, we're webcasting most of our noon and evening presentations.
- Sunday, March 22nd, 2009-Friday, March 27th, 2009
- Knight Digital Media Center March 2009 Lecture Series
The Knight Digital Media Center's March 22-27 Multimedia Training Workshop for journalists is under way. For those not able to attend, we're presenting most of our noon and evening speakers as live webcasts.
- Tuesday, February 17th, 2009-Thursday, February 19th, 2009
- Knight Digital Media Center February 2009 Lecture Series
The Knight Digital Media Center invites you to attend the guest speaker presentations for the February 2009 Technology Tools Workshop, in the Journalism School's Bayley Library. These presentations will be webcast live, and available as streaming video archives the following week.
- Thursday, November 6th, 2008
- Mission Loc@l Kickoff Party
- Students and staff of Mission Loc@l, the j-school's new hyper-local news site made possible by a grant from the Ford Foundation.
- Monday, September 29th, 2008
- New York Times Ideas Issue 2009
- New York Times Magazine Senior Editor Alex Star visits the J-School to discuss pitches for the publication's annual "ideas" issue.
- Wednesday, February 6th, 2008-Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
- Combating the Participation Gap: Why New Media Literacy Matters
Henry Jenkins, Co-Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, will discuss curricular materials and activities being developed by MIT's Project nml to support the teaching of these new social skills and cultural competencies.
- Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
- There You Go Again: Orwell Comes to America
There You Go Again: Orwell Comes to America invites historians, linguists, journalists, government officials, and political consultants to assess the state of public discourse and journalism's response to it one year before the presidential election.
To register: www.thereyougoagain.org
- Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
- The 21st Century Family
A panel discussion was held on October 17, 2007 to celebrate Greater Good's Fall 2007 issue on "The 21st Century Family." The panel featured family experts discussing how the American family is changing, and how it can still thrive during this period of transition.
- Thursday, October 4th, 2007
- Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
CNN senior legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin discusses The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, in conversation with UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Professor Cynthia Gorney.
- Saturday, April 21st, 2007
- Turning Journalism into History
David Halberstam will talk about the crafts of both journalism and history and what it means to turn journalistic reporting into a work of history.
- Monday, March 12th, 2007-Monday, March 5th, 2007
- Writing for the Greater Good: Celebrating the New Issue of Greater Good Magazine
Join us for a panel discussion to celebrate the latest issue of Greater Good, the acclaimed new magazine based at UC Berkeley. The panel will feature the magazine's editors and contributors, including legendary psychologist Philip Zimbardo and New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer Ted Jackson.
- Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
- The View From Abroad: Is America Broken?
This event is SOLD OUT. If you do not have a ticket, please join us in Room 145 Dwinelle Hall to view a live video feed of this event.
John Micklethwait, the newly appointed Editor-in-chief of The Economist, talks with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, about the
- Thursday, January 25th, 2007
- Manifesto for Change
Geneva Overholser, who holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism, has spent more than a year examining the future of journalism and produced, "A Manifesto for Change." She will discuss her findings during this event.
- Thursday, January 11th, 2007
- News War
Two veteran journalists will examine the forces challenging the news media today and the press reaction. Lowell Bergman and Steve Talbot trace the recent history of American journalism, from the Nixon administration's attacks on the media to the post-Watergate popularity of the press to the challenges and opportunities in new media.
- Sunday, December 10th, 2006-Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
- Winter New Media Lecture Series (December 2006)
Featured speakers are Howard Rheingold, "Smart Mobs" author; Travis Fox, Washington Post; Robert Hood, msnbc.com; Al Bonner, Lawrence.com;
Seth Gitner, Roanoke Times; Seth Familian, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business; Joe Howry, Bruce McLean, Colleen Cason and Tom Kisken, Ventura County S- Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
- The New Yorker College Tour
The New Yorker College Tour stops at the University of California November 13th to 15th. The tour will feature in-classroom visits by New Yorker staff writers and New Yorker Editor David Remnick: free daytime, on-campus lectures, and evening entertainment.
- Tuesday, November 14th, 2006-Thursday, November 9th, 2006
- GMOs and the Law
Please join us for a talk by Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer who battled Monsanto all the way to the Supreme Court, followed by a conversation with Professor Michael Pollan, Ignacio Chapela and Schmeiser.
- Monday, November 13th, 2006
- How The New Yorker Covers The World
David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker talks with Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism.
- Thursday, November 9th, 2006-Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
- Kevin Sites: Conflict Journalism in the Digital Age
Kevin Sites of Yahoo! News will discuss his solo journalism approach to
digital story-telling. Sites is Yahoo!'s first news correspondent, covering a number of major global conflicts for "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone" on Yahoo! News in the last year.- Thursday, November 9th, 2006
- Nation Writers on the State of the Nation
Meet a panel of writers from The Nation, one of America's oldest and most critical non-mainstream magazines.
Featuring:
Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation environmental correspondent;
Lakshmi Chaudhry, The Nation Institute Writing Fellow;
Tom Hayden, The Nation editorial board- Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
- Ethics and Journalism: Should We Trust the Media?
The New York Alumni Committee, of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism Felker Magazine Program, helped bring together the sponsors and speakers in this important conversation about the current state of the media. The event honors Clay Felker, the founder of New York magazine and one of the
- Sunday, May 21st, 2006-Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
- Summer New Media Lecture Series (May 2006)
The Graduate School of Journalism presents the Summer 2006 New Media Lecture Series featuring top reporters, editors and executives at online newsrooms around the country discussing topics in online publishing and digital storytelling.
- Saturday, April 1st, 2006-Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
- Watching Guadalcanal Village
In keeping with its mission of providing access to contemporary water-related materials, the Water Resources Center Archives (WRCA) is presenting an exhibit of color photographs of a Northern California wetlands restoration site near Vallejo.
- Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
- The Writer in the Digital Age
Challenges to writers: rapid technology change and the radical upheaval in publishing. Union initiatives to protect and advance writers' jobs and incomes and to defend writers' rights.
- Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
- Elizabeth Kolbert on Global Warming
New Yorker Staff Writer Elizabeth Kolbert will talk about global
warming and how the issue now is not whether it's happening, but
whether its effects on the environment can ever be reversed. She will also discuss her new book Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Cha- Friday, April 30th, 2004
- Revisiting Virtual Communities
A panel discussion with Criag Newmark of craigslist, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of the Daily Kos Weblog, Mark Pincus of Tribe Networks and Susan Mernit of the Navigating the Info Jungle Weblog on how the Internet is changing social interaction and political activism.
- Monday, May 19th, 2003-Friday, May 23rd, 2003
- Multimedia Reporting & Convergence Workshop II
Featuring sessions on weblogging, charging for content, dayparting, putting multimedia into practice, and more.
- Events Outside the J-School:
- UC Berkeley Campus
- School of Information
- Commonwealth Club
- Bay Area Journalism Calendar
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