TELEVISION LIVES presents the work of second-year television students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

At a time when broadcast news is being criticized on many fronts, we seek to challenge and train a new generation of broadcast journalists to find innovative, creative and journalistically responsible ways of reporting and producing TV news.

Students produce 5 to 10 minute nonfiction  magazine stories and create long-form television programs. They have traveled widely in search of compelling stories, from urban and rural neighborhoods of Oakland, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Ohio, to remote villages and cities in China, Vietnam, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, South Africa, France and Eastern Europe.

Classes are held in the state-of-the-art Nan McEvoy Broadcast Laboratory, which includes nine Final Cut Pro workstations and a broadcast studio. All production is digital, using Sony DSR370, PD100, PD150 and DSR570 cameras; Sennheiser, Schoeps and Shure audio gear; and Lowel and Chimera lighting equipment.