Three Class of 2025 audio producers—Negar Ajayebi, Hussain Khan, and Aisha Wallace-Palomares—won Best Narrative Podcast at the Society of Professional Journalists regional Mark of Excellence Awards for collegiate journalism. They secured the honor for their work on Berkeley Journalism’s flagship radio show and podcast, North Gate Radio.
Home is Where the Harmony Is, an audio triptych broadcast on KALX 90.7 in February 2025, asks existential questions: If you’ve left home and can’t move back, where is home? What if you can return, but your home, neighborhood, your entire city was destroyed, then where is home? What if your home doesn’t resemble the one your parents remember, the language most people speak and the food they eat have changed, are you still home?
Read more about the students, the program, and the award here: https://journalism.berkeley.edu/mark-of-excellence-awards
