{"id":356578,"date":"2026-06-11T18:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356578\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:26:16","slug":"opportunity-at-uc-berkeley-for-contra-costa-residents-interested-in-a-journalism-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356578\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity at UC Berkeley for Contra Costa residents interested in a journalism career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all aspiring journalists: <a href=\"https:\/\/journalism.berkeley.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley School of Journalism<\/a>, in partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ccpulse.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Contra Costa Pulse<\/a>,\u00a0will offer up to two Contra Costa County residents a chance to gain journalism skills this fall.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cReporter in Residence\u201d program is accepting applications from residents considering a journalism career. Those selected will learn reporting skills in the classroom and on the beat, while sharing their knowledge of the community with Berkeley Journalism students. <\/p>\n<p>No journalism experience is required. <\/p>\n<p>Each reporter will receive a $2,000 stipend and one-on-one mentoring, as they learn fundamental reporting skills and apply them to reporting stories for Richmond Confidential. Participants also will have opportunities to engage with editors at Contra Costa Pulse, a community news organization covering Contra Costa County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reporters in residence will be required to fully participate in an in-person Introduction to Reporting class, which meets from 9 a.m. to noon on Mondays and Wednesdays on the Berkeley campus.<\/p>\n<p>To date, nine Contra Costa County residents have participated in the program, which started in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1zjJZnAgJV9Vna7fx6QXgF8IEhcgdZQKt384VD99RzXk\/edit\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1zjJZnAgJV9Vna7fx6QXgF8IEhcgdZQKt384VD99RzXk\/edit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">application form may be found here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Applications must be submitted by July 10.  The program runs through the fall semester, from Aug. 26 to Dec. 18. <\/p>\n<p>More information about the program is on\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journalism.berkeley.edu\/news-category\/reporters-residence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Journalism School\u2019s website<\/a>. Please email any questions to Richmond Confidential, richconstaff@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo by Roger H. Goun, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journalism.berkeley.edu\/richmond-pulse-fellows\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Journalism establishes community fellowships with Richmond Pulse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calling all aspiring journalists: UC Berkeley School of Journalism, in partnership with\u00a0The Contra Costa Pulse,\u00a0will offer up to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,145250],"class_list":["post-356578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-reporter-in-residence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}