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Student Academy Award Finalists Two of the seven national finalists for this year's Student Academy Awards in documentary are J-Schoolers: Kimberlee Bortfeld with "Cheerleader" and Shilpi Gupta with "When The Storm Came." Their films will now be screened for and judged by Academy members in order to select the winners. Gold, silver and bronze medals, along with accompanying cash prizes of $5000, $3000 and $2000, are scheduled to be awarded June 13. The Trials of the Sultan of Smut Screens in SF A documentary by James Guardino, class of 2001, about the once-famous porn king Al Goldstein called "Goldstein: The Trials of the Sultan of Smut" is screening at the Women's Building in San Francisco on May 14. The film chronicles Al's attempt at turning a simple misdemeanor charge into a court case that will change the world and thrust him back into the spotlight. Instead, the pressure from the trial and rejection from his son sends Al into a self-destructive tailspin. Guardino directed and produced this feature length film.
Students Win National Television Academy Scholarship Awards Two students in the first year television program, Xiaoli Zhou and Rob Harris, received $6,000 in scholarship awards from the National Television Academy, San Francisco/Northern California Chapter. Zhou won the Peter Marino Award for production and Harris, the Shelly Fay videography award. This is the 3rd straight year Berkeley J-school students have won the competition.
The Washington Post has published a collection of interview snippets produced by J-Schoolers Wang Feng and Adam Shemper on their reporting trip to Taiwan. Hear what a random selection of people in Taipei had to say about whether Taiwan should be a part of China or apart from it. On March 20, citizens there choose a president and vote on a referendum calling on China to withdraw about 500 missiles said to be pointing at the island. Grad Chronicles Birth of East Bay Girls School J-School alum Ilana DeBare has written a book, "Where Girls Come First: The Rise, Fall and Surprising Revival of Girls' Schools," about the founding of the Julia Morgan School for Girls.
Revisiting Virtual Communities: The Internet's Impact on Society and Politics Craig Newmark of craigslist, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of the Daily Kos Weblog, Mark Pincus of Tribe Networks and Susan Mernit of the Navigating the Info Jungle Weblog appeared for a panel discussion on Friday, April 30, at 9 am on how the Internet is changing social interaction and political activism.
Disrupting the News Industry: Media Concentration and Participatory Journalism A panel discussion was held on Friday, April 30, at 10:30 am with Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News, Neil Chase of CBS MarketWatch, Vin Crosbie of Digital Deliverance and Ken Sands of The Spokane Spokesman-Review on how media companies are coping with the competing demands of ownership concentration and participatory journalism.
Maeda received the second place award, Ferrero the third place award. The awards are meant to encourage the pursuit of a career in journalism focusing on international affairs. The Importance of Being Famous: Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industrial Complex Maureen Orth has made headlines reporting the landscapes of fame and power - where its citizens strive to stay young, unindicted, and always camera-ready. Orth unveiled a juicy, devastating, and often heartbreaking portrait of the "era of celebrity" and its very public lives at a talk on Wednesday, April 28.
Alexia Foundation Scholarship's student competition, sponsored at Syracuse University. He won a $6,000 scholarship to study photojournalism in London next fall and a grant of $500. Biotech & Nanotech: Remaking Nature in the Image of Technology A brown-bag lunch talk on Tuesday, April 27, by Andrew Kimbrell, the executive director of the Center for Food Safety.
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