By: E&P Staff The University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism awarded three year-long investigative journalism fellowships Monday. The $45,000 fellowships will run through the 2008-2009 academic year, beginning Sept. 1, and are part of a continuing effort by the Graduate School of Journalism to support investigative reporting.
"While [newsroom staffs] shrink, the desire of reporters to dig deeper grows as does the need and demand for their work,? Lowell Bergman, a Distinguished Professor of Investigative Reporting and a former producer for CBS' ?60 Minutes,? said in a statement.
The competition was open to all working journalists, but preference was given graduates of Berkeley?s master?s in journalism program. As a result, all the winners of the fellowships are Berkeley graduates: Jonathan Jones (?05), Samuel Kennedy (?01) and Carrie Lozano (?05). The winners were selected from a panel of Berkeley professors and working investigative journalists, who judged them on detailed proposals, references, presentations and past work samples.
According to Bergman, the fellows will be reporting on stories about crime and corruption throughout the world. As part of the fellowship, the three will receive office space (shared with PBS? ?Frontline? program), phones and basic expenses. Past fellows have seen their work appear in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle, as well as on ?Frontline,? ABC?s ?Nightline,? ?The CBS Evening News,? and ?60 Minutes II.?
The Investigative Reporting Program at Berkeley was established permanently in 2006, and is mostly funded by private grants and gifts. According to the program?s Web site, the program is ?dedicated to promoting in-depth reporting in the public interest.? Bergman has taught investigative reporting seminars at the university since 1991.
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