Pulitzer Prize

As the one-year anniversary of the “Ghost Ship” fire approaches, two local journalists who received a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on the tragedy spoke at UC Berkeley on Friday.

Three UC Berkeley alumni were of the 24 winners selected Wednesday for this year’s MacArthur Fellowship ‘Genius’ Grant Awards, which comes with a five-year grant of $625,000 to fund any of the winners’ pursuits.

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UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism has allowed its accreditation with the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) to expire.

Thomas Peele, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on Monday along with several other reporters at the East Bay Times, for their coverage of the “Ghost Ship” fire, a tragedy that killed 36 in Oakland last December, including two campus students and two campus alumni.

“Crimes of the Heart” is uneven but the relationship between the three sisters is recognizable and touching.

Two Daily Californian alumni and a Berkeley-based author were the recipients of 2016 Pulitzer Prizes, announced Monday.