Journalism

Campus & community

Michael Bolden selected to be next dean of UC Berkeley Journalism

Bolden is a veteran journalist who is the CEO of the American Press Institute and has worked at the Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle.

a man in a red hat and winter gear stands onboard the green deck of a ship with red railing in Antarctica. He is holding a camera and filming something, looking focused.

Arts & culture

In a tiny boat 7,800 miles from UC Berkeley, graduate students made a daring documentary

An image of the Pulitzer Prize medal shows the front and the back. The medal is gold, with the image of Ben Franklin on one side and on the back is someone operating a printing press.

Arts & culture

Six UC Berkeley alumni named 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners

Awards

Several Berkeley Journalism faculty and alumni honored with 2025 Pulitzer Prizes

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Pulitzer-winning journalism professor discusses a ‘radical’ Berkeley experiment to develop the next generation of investigative reporters

A man in his 70s wearing a Stone Harbor hoodie and a Carleton College baseball cap stands in front of a flowering tree and wood-paneled windows

After a 50-year leave of absence, returning to Berkeley’s School of Journalism

four people, the left two wearing name tags, stand in front of a blue backdrop that says Columbia University. They are smiling broadly.

Journalism professor and alums win awards for ambitious investigative reporting

Academy Award

Berkeley Journalism faculty and alumni shortlisted for Academy Awards

From left: Marty Baron and Dean Baquet speak to an audience

Berkeley Talks: Veteran news editors on how the media covered the election

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How World War I helps explain what gave rise to Trump’s second term

Michael Pollan and Mina Kim sit on stage in conversation

Berkeley Talks: It’s not just psychedelics that change minds, says Michael Pollan. Storytelling does, too.

Portrait of Jemele Hill smiling

Berkeley Talks: Journalist Jemele Hill on the intersection of sports and race (revisiting)

dozens of tv screens showing various sporting events from the control room of the Beijing Olympics

What is lost — and gained — when Olympics coverage becomes a round-the-clock spectacle?

Ken LIght, a Berkeley professor and documentary photojournalist, stands on the red carpeting of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee holding a camera and wearing a cap and vest.

Camera in hand, Berkeley professor chronicles this week’s Republican National Convention

Daniel Ellsburg talking with students

Berkeley Journalism’s new whistleblower program honors Daniel Ellsberg

four portraits of women journalists

Berkeley Talks: International journalists on women’s rights in Iran and Afghanistan