From national to international: Bloomberg-UNC Business Journalism Diversity Program extends overseas

The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media has announced the 2019 participants of the Bloomberg-UNC-Berkeley Journalism Diversity Program, and will partner with the City, University Department of Journalism in London to extend the program overseas this year. 

The Bloomberg-UNC-Berkeley Business Journalism Diversity Program and the Bloomberg-UNC-City Business Journalism Diversity Programme give students the opportunity to join a week-long program that will show how business journalists report on what's most at stake in the economy, global stock and bond markets, government regulations and the job market.

Six of the 22 selected Bloomberg-UNC-Berkeley participants are Hussman School students — Aysha Diallo ’21, Samantha Hopkins ’21, Ruth Samuel ’21, Amena Saad ’21, Maria Elena Vizcaino ’19 and Marin Wolf ’21.

With instruction by senior Bloomberg journalists and executives, participants are led through The Bloomberg Way, the principles of reporting, editing and applied business and economic knowledge that helped transform Bloomberg News into the world's most successful business reporting operation. Participants will learn to demonstrate that the story of the economy, business and markets is best recorded when the focus is on the greatest diversity of participants.

2019 Bloomberg-UNC-Berkeley Program participants

East Coast

Aysha Diallo ’21
UNC-Chapel Hill

 

Jessica Floyd ’19
Northwestern University

 

Peyton Forte ’20
North Carolina A&T State University

 

Neda Jahanbani ’19
University of California, San Diego

 

Sabrina Kharrazi ’20
University of California, Berkeley

 

Ruth Samuel ’21
UNC-Chapel Hill

 

Amena Saad ’21
UNC-Chapel Hill

 

Zijia Song ’19
Boston College

 

Maria Elena Vizcaino ’19
UNC-Chapel Hill

 

Ryan Williams ’21
Duke University

 

Marin Wolf ’21
UNC-Chapel Hill

 

West Coast

Monique Langston Bonds ’20
Langston University

 

Anne Colleen DeGuzman '21
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

 

Sydney Forsee '20
University of Oklahoma

 

Samantha Hopkins ’21
UNC-Chapel Hill

 

Addison Kliewer '19
University of Oklahoma

 

Mikayle Lowery '19
University of California, San Diego

 

Emmy Lucas '21
University of Missouri

 

Christian Nunley '20
University of Oklahoma

 

Maria Sestito '20
University of California, Berkeley

 

Kara Tippins '19
Georgetown University

 

Natalie Venegas '20
The University of Texas at Austin

 

 

2019 Bloomberg-UNC-City Program participants

Caterina Dassie ’19
Cardiff University

 
 

Raj Khan ’20
University of Reading

 
 

Jessica Mann ’19
University of Bristol

 
 

Abigail Oyedele ’22
King’s College London

 
 

Marta Santivanez Fernandez ’20
London School of Economics and Political Science

 
 

Pina Schipani ’19
City, University of London

 
 

Liam Smillie ’21
University of Stirling

 
 

Raagulan Umashanker ’20
University of Reading

 
 

Annissa Warsame ’20
University of Exeter