1. MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
I INSIDE E
New provost announcement
Research news
Top newsmakers
Local news highlights
Institutional acclaim
First Quarter 2014

2. 0 20 40 60 80 100
Breakdown of mentions*
Reflection of UC Berkeley
Breakdown of major sources
36,866
Comment- Expert Quotes News
ary 11% 21% 67%
Editorials Less than 1%
Positive
90%
Neutral
4%
Mixed
1%
Negative 5%
Wall Street
Journal 7%
NPR
4%
Washington
Post 7%
Total number of stories that mentioned UC Berkeley
(January 1-March 31, 2014)
Los Angeles
Times 15%
San Francisco Chronicle
29%
New York
Times 12%
Through news releases, press conferences, video, webcasts,
UC Berkeley NewsCenter stories and social media,
Communications and Public Affairs helped broadcast
in the first quarter of 2014 a series of major campus
announcements that captured positive national, and
often global, headlines.
Other Local Media
Outlets 17%
* Statistics take from a sample of 1,009 stories in key media outlets tracked and analyzed by Communications and Public Affairs.
MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS | Q1 2014
Wires
7%
USA
Today 2%

3. A New Provost
San Francisco Chronicle: Stanford’s Claude Steele named UC Berkeley provost Link to article >
Los Angeles Times: Stanford education dean named UC Berkeley’s new provost Link to article >
San Jose Mercury News: Stanford dean takes UC Berkeley’s provost post Link to article >
Chronicle of Higher Education: Stanford Education Dean Is Named
UC Berkeley’s New Provost Link to article >
Research News
Washington Post: ‘Super-Earths’ and ‘mini-Neptunes’ abound among planets outside our solar system
Link to article >
Los Angeles Times: Turkey flesh inspires bomb-detecting technology Link to article >
New York Times: A Powerful New Way to Edit DNA Link to article >
Bill Moyers Online: How Would Buddha Organize Our Cutthroat Modern Economy? Link to article >
EVCP Claude Steele
meets with students
at the Senior
Resource Fair.

4. New York Times:
Severe Drought Has U.S. West
Fearing Worst
Link to article >
CBS Evening News: Calif.
could be in for century-long
megadrought Link to article >
Kevin Gorman, Wikipedian in Residence F
“The goal of cultural
institutions is in
large part to share
knowledge, to make
their information
accessible to the
general public.”
Lynn Ingram, Professor of earth and
planetary science and of geography F
“We are on track
for having the
worst drought
in 500 years.”
CNBC: UC Berkeley creates
‘wiki’ position
Link to article >
UPI (with video): UC Berkeley
has hired the first ‘Wikipedian
in Residence’ at an American
university Link to article
Top Newsmakers

5. Local News Highlights
Oakland Tribune: Cal’s Memorial Stadium taking new tenants Link to article >
San Francisco Chronicle: Moving day success for UC Berkeley’s Julia Morgan building
Link to article >
San Francisco Business Times: UC Berkeley saved $2 million on energy costs in two years
Link to article >
Oakland Tribune: UC Berkeley chancellor promises more help for undergrad students
Link to article >
Institutional Acclaim
San Francisco Chronicle: UC-corporate links produce trove of patents, study finds
Link to article >
Los Angeles Times: Four California universities among world’s top 10, survey says
Link to article >
KGO ABC-7: Survey names UC Berkeley top 10 value college Link to article >
Girton Hall
moves
up the hill.