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UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism is a graduate professional school on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. It is designed to produce journalists with a two-year Master of Journalism (MJ) degree. It also offers a minor in journalism to undergraduates and a journalism certificate option to non–UC Berkeley students. The school is located in North Gate Hall on the north side of the central campus of UC Berkeley.
The school is currently being served by Dean Michael Bolden, former CEO and executive director of the American Press Institute. Bolden replaced acting dean Elena Conis in August 2025 following a national search.
Most courses offered by the school are on the graduate level as part of its professional Master of Journalism (MJ) degree. The school offers a minor to undergraduates. The school enrolls approximately 120 students; 60 first-year and 60-second-year students, and is among the smaller graduate schools on the campus of UC Berkeley.
The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism focuses on six media platforms of journalism: Audio journalism, Documentary Film, Narrative Writing, Multimedia, and Photojournalism. It is further separated into four reporting interests: Climate Journalism, Data Journalism, Health and Science Journalism, reporting on incarceration, and Investigative Reporting.
The school's focus is on professional practice rather than research, and requires students to perform an internship at a media outlet as a degree requirement between their first and second year of study.
Students are also required to take an introductory news reporting course called J200, where they publish in one of two hyperlocal news websites that are run by the school: Oakland North and Richmond Confidential.
In 2015, the estate of photographer Jim Marshall created the Jim Marshall Fellowships in Photography at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism's Center for Photography.
China expert and author Orville Schell served as dean of the school from 1996 to the summer of 2007. Before Schell, Thomas Goldstein served as dean from 1988 until he left to become the dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He stepped down from that position after five years, despite being credited for increasing endowments for that school from $54 million to $84 million over his short stint there. He is currently teaching a news writing class at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Pulitzer Prize-winning American media critic Ben Bagdikian also served as a past dean of the UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
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UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism is a graduate professional school on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. It is designed to produce journalists with a two-year Master of Journalism (MJ) degree. It also offers a minor in journalism to undergraduates and a journalism certificate option to non–UC Berkeley students. The school is located in North Gate Hall on the north side of the central campus of UC Berkeley.
The school is currently being served by Dean Michael Bolden, former CEO and executive director of the American Press Institute. Bolden replaced acting dean Elena Conis in August 2025 following a national search.
Most courses offered by the school are on the graduate level as part of its professional Master of Journalism (MJ) degree. The school offers a minor to undergraduates. The school enrolls approximately 120 students; 60 first-year and 60-second-year students, and is among the smaller graduate schools on the campus of UC Berkeley.
The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism focuses on six media platforms of journalism: Audio journalism, Documentary Film, Narrative Writing, Multimedia, and Photojournalism. It is further separated into four reporting interests: Climate Journalism, Data Journalism, Health and Science Journalism, reporting on incarceration, and Investigative Reporting.
The school's focus is on professional practice rather than research, and requires students to perform an internship at a media outlet as a degree requirement between their first and second year of study.
Students are also required to take an introductory news reporting course called J200, where they publish in one of two hyperlocal news websites that are run by the school: Oakland North and Richmond Confidential.
In 2015, the estate of photographer Jim Marshall created the Jim Marshall Fellowships in Photography at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism's Center for Photography.
China expert and author Orville Schell served as dean of the school from 1996 to the summer of 2007. Before Schell, Thomas Goldstein served as dean from 1988 until he left to become the dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He stepped down from that position after five years, despite being credited for increasing endowments for that school from $54 million to $84 million over his short stint there. He is currently teaching a news writing class at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Pulitzer Prize-winning American media critic Ben Bagdikian also served as a past dean of the UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.