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After a national search, campus professor Geeta Anand was named dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism on Wednesday, making her the first woman to serve in the role.
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In response to student criticism over the lack of diversity in the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Academic Senate faculty members have established five working groups to make recommendations by July 15.
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Campus alumnus T. Christian Miller, who is also a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and former member of The Daily Californian, was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize on Sunday for his work on a ProPublica investigation.
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UC Berkeley panelists discussed challenges researchers and journalists face when providing accurate information about a pandemic and helping the public to navigate COVID-19 in a Berkeley campus conversation event Wednesday.
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The New York Times announced its partnership with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism to collaborate on coverage of COVID-19’s impact on all 58 California counties. The idea came about shortly after the Bay Area enacted a shelter-in-place order.
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Amidst President Donald Trump’s travel ban with Europe, 24 students at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism have self-quarantined after possible exposure to COVID-19.
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Jigsaw — a unit within Google that foresees and works with emerging cyber threats — launched the platform Assembler, which can detect the manipulation of images, according to a blog post on Medium.
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As we enter the first week of the second month of this year, perhaps we can utilize the new year’s theme of self-improvement to improve our external community.
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New York Times deputy director and UC Berkeley alumnus Julie Bloom discussed her experience covering the West Coast as an East Coast paper with an increasingly Californian readership at a Berkeley Forum event Monday hosted by The Berkeley Forum.
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Oakland-based newspaper East Bay Express laid off almost its entire editorial staff in January and replaced it with freelance workers because of financial difficulties, continuing a recent trend found at several news and media outlets.
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