Asst Professor of New Media
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Richard Koci-Hernandez is an Emmy Award winning visual journalist who worked as a photographer at the San Jose Mercury News for 15 years. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times and international magazines, including Stern. Richard was the recipient of the James K. Batten Knight Ridder Excellence Award and his photography and multimedia work has won numerous awards on the national and international level, including two Emmy and Pulitzer nominations. When he's not shooting pictures on his iPhone and posting them to Instagram, he teaches new media journalism as an assistant professor at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism