UC Berkeley Journalism - Faculty

For the past decade, California's ties to the Pacific Rim have been blossoming. The journalism school is playing a role in developing these links through its Journalism and Asian Studies Program. Much of the credit for these efforts goes to Carolyn Wakeman, the faculty coordinator of the concurrent degree program. Wakeman has been at the school since 1989. Since joining the faculty, Wakeman has made many contributions to the Journalism and Asian Studies program. She created the Asia-Pacific Media Studies Center, which holds workshops and hosts visiting scholars and journalists. She also initiated the Hong Kong Studies Project, which includes an intensive seminar/field studies course, and sponsors frequent lectures by experts on politics, human rights, and the media. Wakeman built the school's Asia-Pacific materials archive, has organized several conferences for the school, and edited four issues of a school magazine, the Pacific. A popular lecturer, she has made presentations to dozens of organizations off campus, including the World Affairs Council, where she also served two years on the International Journalism Awards committee. "It's been an extraordinary intellectual journey," said Wakeman, "helping to develop a field of study that doesn't exist anywhere else. I do believe in its importance, in improving the way in which Asia is reported on and understood."

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Lowell Bergman	Joan Bieder
Robert Calo	Lydia Chavez
Mark Danner	Bill Drummond
Jon Else	Thomas Goldstein
Cynthia Gorney	Paul Grabowicz
Neil Henry	Tom Leonard
Ken Light	Michael Pollan
Susan Rasky	Carolyn Wakeman

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