Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley

Please describe your aptitude and motivation for graduate study in journalism, including your journalistic preparation, what specific skills you hope to learn through the Berkeley Journalism curriculum, and your future career goals. Please also inclu m, and your future career goals. Please also include specific reasons you would like to attend Berkeley Journalism at this point in your career. At the Graduate School of Journalism, we recognize the intrinsic relationship between diversity and excellence in all our endeavors. Diversity refers to the variety of personal experiences, values, and worldviews that arise from differences of culture and circumstance. Such differences include race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, language, abilities/disabilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, academic and professional backgrounds, political beliefs, and geographic region, to name a few. Given this description of diversity, describe how you would add to the diversity of the Graduate School of Journalism community. Describe how your personal background and experiences shaped your decision to pursue a journalism graduate degree, and how they have motivated you to become a reporter. Include any relevant information on how you overcame barriers to access higher education, or to achieve your journalistic goals. The Personal History Statement is required for all applicants. A two-year course of study widely admired by industry leaders, our MJ program graduates informed journalists of uncommon skill, tenacity and vision, prepared to thrive in a dynamic and evolving professional landscape. Dedicated to promoting, protecting and practicing sophisticated investigative reporting, the IRP is committed to creating journalism that exposes injustice and abuse of power while training the next generation of practitioners in the highest standards of our craft. The Bloomberg-UNC-Berkeley Business Journalism Diversity Program has two aims: to introduce journalism students to the dynamic field of business journalism and to increase diversity among journalists reporting on business. ...view more