Lecturers and Fellows

Our new Teaching Fellows program brings distinguished journalists from around the world to teach and work on their own projects, often with students. Below is a list of all lecturers and teaching fellows associated with the J-School.

Christopher Beaver

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Todd Carrel

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Todd Carrel is a journalist who covered Asia for more than a decade, first as a reporter for the Associated Press based in Tokyo, then as the ABC News bureau chief and correspondent in China. He has worked for National Geographic on many projects, contributed numerous freelance stories to newspapers, and produced an independent documentary aired on PBS stations.

Mimi Chakarova

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For the past decade, photographer and filmmaker Mimi Chakarova has covered global issues examining conflict, corruption and the sex trade. Her film "The Price of Sex," a feature-length documentary on trafficking and corruption premiered this spring. Chakarova was awarded the Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking at the 2011 Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York. Other awards include a People's Voice Webby as well as a nomination for a News & Documentary Emmy Award.

Marilyn Chase

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Marilyn Chase is a graduate of Stanford University with a BA in English, and the University of California at Berkeley with a Master's in Journalism. As a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Chase covered a variety of medical beats including the biotechnology industry, disease research and personal health. She is the author of "The Barbary Plague: the Black Death in Victorian San Francisco," (Random House, 2003).

Lu Chen

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Lu CHEN has been a producer covering China for European public television for more than seven years.  She has been a broadcast journalist for 15 years, including work as a TV reporter in Hong Kong, a producer at a financial news channel in Taiwan, and a radio current affairs talk show host and interviewer in Hong Kong.  She holds a master’s degree in Communication Studies from Baptist University in Hong Kong and a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Jilin University in China.  She also studied accounting at Douglas College in Vancouver, Canada.

 

David Cohn

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Edwin Dobb

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A former editor and acting editor-in-chief of The Sciences, Edwin Dobb has been an independent writer for the past 20 years, contributing to Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and National Geographic, among others. Dobb is the co-writer and co-producer of a documentary film, called “Butte, America,” that aired on Independent Lens in the fall of 2009. He is a former Hewlett Teaching Fellow in Environmental Journalism and member of the Editing Workshops. Dobb also is an adjunct professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana.

Karen Everett

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Karen Everett is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor based
in San Francisco. She has directed five documentaries which have received
educational distribution and aired on PBS. Everett teaches editing at UC
Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She has edited the nightly news
for a top-ranked NBC affiliate, taught at several Bay Area colleges, and
recently authored “Reality in Three Acts: What Documentary Filmmakers Can
Learn From Screenwriters”.

Andrew Gilbert

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Andrew Gilbert has covered music, modern dance and film for numerous publications since 1989. He is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Contra Costa Times. His CD reviews air monthly on KQED’s “California Report.” Born and raised in Los Angeles, he earned a B.A. in politics from U.C. Santa Cruz. His master’s thesis for U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, a half-hour documentary on jazz/cabaret singer Wesla Whitfield, won a Golden Spire award at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival.

Alma Guillermoprieto

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Alma Guillermoprieto was born in Mexico in 1949. She has written about Latin America for a variety of publications for the past 30 years, most frequently the New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Guillermoprieto is the author of four books. "Samba" (Knopf,  1990), an account of the year she spent with the impoverished carnival-makers of Brazil, was nominated for the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award. "The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now" (Knopf, 1994) and "Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America" (Vintage, 2001) are collections of her essays. Her most recent book is "Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution" (Vintage, 2001). All four books are frequently used in classrooms, for subjects ranging from performance art to Latin American history.

Guillermoprieto has received numerous awards, including the Latin American Studies Association media award and, in 1995, a MacArthur Fellowship. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. She was a 2006-07 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies and holds an honorary degree from Baruch College in New York. In May, a poll conducted by Foreign Policy magazine selected her as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world.

Robert Gunnison

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Rob Gunnison is Director of School Affairs at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. He arrived in 1999 after writing for 15 years for the San Francisco Chronicle in Sacramento, where he covered state government and politics with an emphasis on budget and tax issues. Before that, he was Sacramento Bureau Manager for United Press International where he covered government and politics for 11 years. His reporting on the savings and loan debacle was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. <p /> Mr. Gunnison teaches “Reporting and Writing the News” and has co-taught an investigative reporting class with Professor Bergman for six years.

Samar Halarnkar

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Samar Halarnkar, 46, is an Editor-at-large with Hindustan Times and Mint (Hindustan Times is a leading English daily and Mint, published with the Wall Street Journal, is a leading business newspaper). Apart from his own reportage on internal conflict, poverty, science, politics and nationalism, he heads two teams of reporters working on in-depth editorial projects relating to hunger and reform. He also writes three columns: on emerging India; on science and technology; and on creative cooking. A journalist for 21 years, Halarnkar holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce and economics from Bangalore University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has been a fellow at the American Society for Microbiology and The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi. He is the author of “Under the Rain Tree”, a chronicle of India’s Internet revolution.

Daniel Heimpel

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Adam Hochschild

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Adam Hochschild is the author of seven books, many of them on human rights issues. His 2005 book, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Another volume, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels, collects some of the articles he has done in several decades of writing for various newspapers and magazines. In the past he has been a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," and an editor and writer at Mother Jones magazine. He recently spent several months putting some of the material in 'Bury the Chains' into interactive form for the BBC History website.

Jennifer Kahn

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Jennifer Kahn has been a contributing editor at Wired magazine since 2003, and a feature writer for The New Yorker, National Geographic, Outside, Discover, Mother Jones, and the New York Times, among others. A graduate of Princeton University and UC Berkeley, she has degrees in astrophysics and journalism, and has been a recipient of the CASE-UCLA media fellowship in neuroscience. Her work has been chosen for the Best American Science Writing series four times in the past seven years, most recently for “A Cloud of Smoke,” about a policeman whose death four years after 9/11 was not what it seemed. She is also featured in Best American Sports Writing 2010.

Ben Manilla

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Ben Manilla is one of America's foremost audio producers. His 30-year career spans all aspects of radio. He has produced series for National Public Radio, The Disney Company, The Library of Congress, CBS, PBS, and many others. His consulting firm, Media Mechanics, created a full-time satellite channel for Starbucks, invented a new music format for public radio in Milwaukee, and is developing a new cable TV series starring Laura Dern. For seventeen years, Ben has collaborated with Dan Aykroyd on the House of Blues radio series. Together, they wrote the book, "Elwood's Blues". Ben’s work has been honored with the Major Armstrong Award, The Edward R. Murrow Award, The Music Journalism Award, The Ohio State Public Service Broadcasting Award, Billboard Magazine’s Syndicated Radio Show Award, and many more. Ben is currently working on a multi-hour TV and radio series on The History of Recorded Music with Sir George Martin. Ben has a degree in Drama from New York University.

Alan Mutter

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Alan D. Mutter began his career as a newspaper columnist and editor at the Chicago Daily News and later rose to City Editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1984, he became the No. 2 editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. He left the newspaper business in 1988 to join InterMedia Partners, a start-up company that became one of the largest cable-TV companies in the country. Mutter was the COO of InterMedia when he moved to Silicon Valley in 1996 to lead the first of the three start-up companies he led as CEO. The companies he headed were a pioneering Internet service provider and two enterprise-software companies delivering cutting-edge solutions for media companies. Mutter now is a consultant specializing in corporate initiatives and new media ventures that combine his twin passions, journalism and technology. He joined the adjunct faculty of the Journalism School in January, 2009.

Marilyn Pittman

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33 years in broadcasting as a talk show host, news anchor, announcer, engineer, producer, writer, commentator. 20 years as a broadcast educator and consultant, coaching talent for NPR, PRI and public radio stations, training community radio station hosts. Teaching performance modules in radio and new media classes and for the Knight Digital Media Center for more than a decade. Stand-up comic, documentary narrator, also.

Kara Platoni

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Kara Platoni was a staff writer for the East Bay Express for eight years, then spent two years as the Senior Editor at Terrain, a Berkeley-based environmental quarterly. She is a freelance science writer whose work has appeared in Smithsonian, Popular Science, Air & Space, and other magazines, and she co-hosts The Field Trip Podcast. She teaches the class that is producing the hyperlocal news sites OaklandNorth.net and RichmondConfidential.org, as well as the undergraduate J100 class. More information and favorite stories at KaraPlatoni.com.

Jeremy Rue

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Jeremy Rue is a lecturer for the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism under grants from the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie-Knight program News21. Before teaching, Rue previously worked as a multimedia journalist for the Oakland Tribune, where he helped produced "Not Just a Number," an immersive interactive project that humanized the historically high 2006 homicide rate in Oakland. The project won Online News Association's Knight Award for Public Service in 2007. Rue has also worked as a photojournalist for a number of publications, including The Fresno Bee, The Modesto Bee and the Duluth News-Tribune in Minnesota. He also worked as a reporter for the Selma (Calif.) Enterprise, where he covered city government, courts and crime. Rue is the recipient of the 2007 Dorothea Lange Fellowship for his photo documentary work on migrant farm workers in the California Central Valley. He has experience with Adobe Flash/ActionScript, HTML/CSS, JavaScript/AJAX, Unix, PHP and a variety of other scripting languages.

Kean Sakata

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Linda Schacht

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Linda Schacht is an Emmy award winning television reporter with more than 20 years experience in local television. Her career began at KQED-TV on the highly regarded Newsroom nightly news show. She then covered politics, locally and nationally, for KPIX, the CBS owned and operated station in San Francisco, for nineteen years. Linda has won two Emmy awards and an American Bar Association national award for her political coverage. She has been on the faculty since 1992 and continues to write television scripts and do special television and documentary projects.

Randy Shandobil

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Shane Sharkey

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Shane Sharkey is the owner and director of Big Toe Audio, an audio production company specializing in syndicated radio production. Shane has produced radio specials and syndicated programs for music, sports and talk radio for over 13 years. His award winning work includes projects for The Oakland Raiders, KGO 810 AM, The House of Blues, Putumayo World Music, Walt Disney World, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and much more. Shane lives with his wife and three children in Castro Valley, California.

Steve Talbot

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In a career of more than 25 years in public television, Stephen Talbot has written and produced over 30 documentaries, including ten films for the PBS series, Frontline. Along the way, he has won nearly every major award in the field – Emmys, Peabodys, a DuPont, a George Polk, even an “Edgar” from the Mystery Writers of America. His most recent work is “News War: What’s Happening to the News” (2007) a 90-min. Frontline report on the state of the news media with reporter Lowell Bergman. Talbot is also the Series Editor for Frontline/World, Frontline’s international news magazine, where he helps commission and supervise broadcast stories and oversees the series web site.

David Tuller

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David Tuller was a reporter and editor for ten years at the San Francisco Chronicle. He served as health editor at Salon.com and frequently writes health stories for the New York Times. He received his masters in public health at Berkeley in 2005.

James Wheaton

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James Wheaton is Founder and Senior Counsel at the First Amendment Project, a public interest law firm. He is also President of the Environmental Law Foundation, an environmental enforcement program. He is a former City of Oakland Public Ethics Commissioner, Executive Director of California Common Cause, and co-chair of the Society of Professional Journalists (NorCal) Freedom of Information Committee. He is a graduate of Brown University and UC's Boalt Hall. He received the Playboy Foundation First Amendment Award for Law in 2001 for defending against SLAPP cases, and the Society of Professional Journalists’ James Madison award for Pro Bono Counsel in 1993 and 2001 for his work and leadership on behalf of Freedom of Information.

Former Lecturers & Fellows

Richard Berge

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Thomas Burke

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Michael Chin

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Bonni Cohen

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George Dohrmann

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George Dohrmann is a writer for Sports Illustrated, author of Play Their Hearts Out and winner of The Pulitzer Prize.

Deirdre English

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Deirdre English has written and edited work on a wide array of subjects related to investigative reporting, cultural politics, gender studies, and public policy. She has contributed articles, commentaries and reviews to Mother Jones magazine, the Nation, and The New York Times Book Review, among other publications, and to public radio and television. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones magazine where she worked for eight years, ending in 1986. She has taught American Studies and magazine writing and production at the College of Old Westbury at the State University of New York and has been a lecturer at City College of New York and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her most current work includes a revision of For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’ Advice to Women (Anchor), co-authored with Barbara Ehrenreich and published with a new Afterword in 2004, and an essay on the work of photographer Susan Meiselas, published in Carnival Strippers, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2003. She has taught at the J-school since 1988, and directed the Felker Magazine course for several years, during which the her class has won numerous regional and national Mark of Excellence awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, including the national Best Student Magazine and Best Feature Article of 2009.

Susan J. Ferriss

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Dan Gillmor

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Dan Gillmor, a former newspaper columnist, is this fall's I.F. Stone Teaching Fellow and author of "We the Media." He is director of the Center for Citizen Media, a project affiliated with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School.

Samantha Grant

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Samantha Grant is a documentary filmmaker, journalist, and educator. Through her production company GUSHproductions, LLC Samantha has worked with FRONTLINE, ABC, MTV, CNN, NPR, PRI, FRONTLINE/World, PBS, Al Jazeera International, and Current TV, as well as several national corporate clients like Pandora, Merrill Lynch, AT&T, and Electronic Arts. Samantha's work has received several awards including a student Emmy and a South Asian Journalists Association award. In 2006, Samantha began work on a documentary film which is still in production about the Jayson Blair/New York Times scandal. Sam was a 2007 Carnegie/Knight Fellow, and is an alumna of the CPB/PBS Producers Academy. Recently, Sam was named a BAVC MediaMaker Fellow for 2011. When she's not shooting, producing or directing documentaries, you can find Sam lecturing at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford's Knight Fellows program.

Robert Hass

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Robert Hass is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California. He works on contemporary American poetry and translation; he has also been interested recently in environmental history and literature. Hass is currently a Carnegie Fellow here at the Journalism School.

Tyche Hendricks

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Tyche Hendricks is an editor for The California Report at KQED Public Radio. For many years she covered immigration, demographic trends and immigrant communities as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Hendricks has worked extensively on the U.S.-Mexico border and her reporting has taken her across the continent from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Lake Nicaragua. Along the way, she has trekked through deserts and jungles, helped pregnancy test cattle and bury hurricane victims, monitored polling stations and learned to cook pollo en mole. Her book, "The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," was published by the University of California Press in June 2010. Hendricks has worked at the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner, the San Jose Mercury News, the Seattle Times and as a freelance radio producer. Her work has won awards, including a Best of the West prize and an NFCB Golden Reel. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University, and an MA in Latin American Studies and an MJ in Journalism, both from UC Berkeley.

Cassandra Herrman

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Cassandra Herrman is a documentary filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. She recently co-directed and photographed “Tulia, Texas”, the story of a small town struggling with the aftermath of a controversial drug sting. “Tulia, Texas” broadcast on the PBS series INDEPENDENT LENS in 2009. For PBS’ FRONTLINE/World, she has produced and filmed numerous documentaries, including stories about human rights in Zimbabwe; female runners in Kenya; and the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, nominated for a 2006 National Emmy Award. Cassandra received her master’s degree from U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2001.

Beth Hoffman

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Deborah Hoffmann

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Teaching Fellow Deborah Hoffmann received an Academy Award nomination in 1995 for her documentary Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter and again for Long Night's Journey into Day in 2000. She is widely acclaimed as editor of such classic documentaries as The Times of Harvey Milk, Marlon Riggs' Color Adjustment and Ethnic Notions, and Jon Else' Mullholland's Dream and Sing Faster. She has received two National Emmys, a Peabody, and a DuPont Columbia Award for her work.

Mark Katches

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Mark Katches is the Editorial Director for California Watch.

Holly Kernan

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Holly Kernan is the news director at public radio station KALW-FM in San Francisco and the architect of the award-winning Public Interest Reporting Project. She is also the director of the Public Radio Program at Mills College in Oakland. Kernan has worked at New America Media, Youth Radio, KQED, Link TV and Canal Sur in Spain, where she produced historical documentaries for public television. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Society for Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi, Edward R. Murrow, American Women in Radio and Television, Northern California Society for Professional Journalists’ Public Service Award and was recently named "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.

Jackie Krentzman

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I am the proprietor of Krentzman Communications, a custom publisher that helps clients (for profit and nonprofit) launch magazines and newsletters). Prior, I was the editorial director of DCP for 10 years, the largest custom publisher in Northern California. At DCP, I led the creative team on the launch of more than 40 magazines and newsletters. I am also the vice president of a national organization for women in the media, EWIP--Exceptional Women in Publishing. I am a graduate of the J School, live in Berkeley with my husband Larry. Our son Josh lives in Washington DC

Timothy McGirk

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A veteran investigative reporter, magazine writer and former Time magazine bureau chief, Tim McGirk has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Israeli- Palestinian conflict and the hunt for al-Qaeda.

Amalia Mulder-Wollan

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Megan Mylan

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Megan Mylan is a New York-based documentary filmmaker whose work has been recognized with an Academy Award, Emmy-nomination, Independent Spirit Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is currently directing a documentary on race relations in Brazil. She directed and produced the Oscar-winning film Smile Pinki broadcast on HBO. Her film, Lost Boys of Sudan, co-directed with Jon Shenk, was nominated for two national Emmys and won an Independent Spirit Award. The film had a 70-city theatrical release and a national television broadcast on PBS’s POV. Through an extensive social action campaign, Lost Boys raised more than a million dollars for refugee education funds, mobilized student action around the Darfur crisis and recruited thousands of volunteer mentors for refugees. Megan also directed Batidania on Brazilian resistance music. She has worked on documentaries for HBO, PBS, Showtime and the BBC including the Oscar nominated, Long Night’s Journey Into Day and the Sundance Award winning film Sing Faster. Before beginning in film, Megan worked with Ashoka, an international development non-profit, in the U.S. and Brazil. She has a Bachelor’s from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Masters' degrees in Journalism and Latin American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

Spencer Nakasako

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Tom Peele

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Thomas Peele is an investigative reporter for the Bay Area News Group and the Chauncey Bailey Project. He is a 25-year veteran of newspapers on both coasts.  His many honors include Investigative and Editors Tom Renner Award and Columbia University’s Paul Tobekin Memorial Award. He was a 2009 finalist for the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism.  Peele specializes in public records and public accountability reporting. He routinely writes enterprise stories about government malfeasance and corruption. He also writes a monthly column, The Watchdog, on government transparency and freedom of the press. Before joining the Contra Costa Times in 2000, Peele was a staff writer for the Atlantic City Press in New Jersey where he covered government corruption and organized crime. He has also has worked for newspapers in New Jersey, New York and begin his career at Newsday as a prep sportswriter while a college student.

Peele holds an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. His first book, Killing the Messenger, is scheduled to be published by Random House in 2011.

Robert Rogers

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Martha Saavedra

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Martha Saavedra is the Associate Director of the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. Trained as a Political Scientist at UCB, she has taught at St. Mary’s College of California, UC Berkeley and Ohio University. Her research and publications have ranged from agrarian politics, development and ethnic conflict in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan to gender, sport and development in Africa to representations of Africa in Chinese popular culture. She has co-edited a forthcoming volume, China and Africa: Emerging Patterns in Globalisation and Development, and is currently co-editing a special issue of Politque Africaine on the politics of football in Africa. She is also on the editorial boards of Soccer and Society; Sport in Society; and Impumelelo: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Sports in Africa. At the Center, she coordinates the UnderstandingSudan.org and the Horn of Africa curriculum projects, oversees public programs and fellowships, and works closely with the African languages program among other things.

Lee Sang Ho

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Lee Sang Ho was a TV reporter for MBC (Munhwa Broadcasting Corp) for than 17 years.  He is an investigative reporter who rose to become the deputy director of his network’s political coverage.   In Korea, he sees himself as a gadfly, media activist, and fighter for broader press freedoms.  He was named “Journalist of the Year” by the Journalists Association of Korea in 2005 and recently earned a doctorate in political science from Yonsei University.  In addition to his teaching at the Graduate School of Journalism, Lee also is a visiting scholar affiliated with the Center for Korean Studies.

Kyoichi Sasazawa

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Kyoichi SASAZAWA is a senior science writer for Yomiuri Shimbun.  From 2002 to 2006 he was a correspondent in Washington, D.C.  He received an Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship in 2008 from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.  In the 1990s, the covered the Kobe earthquake and the Sarin nerve gas attacks in Matsumoto City and the Tokyo subway.  He has also reported on North Korea’s missile and nuclear development programs.  He has written several science books.  Sasazawa is a graduate of Tohoku University.

Jon Shenk

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Eric Simons

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Eric Simons is the author of Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America in February. Simons brings a strong background in writing for daily, weekly, and monthly outlets, and a few years professional copy editing and line-editing experience (at the former ANG Newspapers). Simons grew up in the East Bay, and has done considerable reporting on East Bay history.

Rebecca Solnit

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Solnit (UCB MJ '84), who writes regularly for Tom Englehardt's Tomdispatch, the London Review of Books, and Orion magazine, has worked as an editor, environmental journalist, museum researcher, and art critic. She has eight books in print, including three dealing with different eras of San Francisco history, from the 1870s to the dot-com boom. Her 2003 River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, the Lynton Prize for the “book-length work of history that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression” from Harvard's Nieman Center and Columbia School of Journalism, the Society for the History of Technology's annual book prize, and several other awards.

Chanan Tigay

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Sharon Tiller

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Sharon Tiller joined FRONTLINE in 1995 as senior producer for special
projects. In that role she has overseen and helped shape numerous programs
for the series, including the critically acclaimed four-part special "Drug
Wars." Other projects include “So You Want to Buy a President,” “Why
America Hates the Press,” “Fooling with Nature,” "Secrets of the SAT, and
“Blackout.” In 1997, she helped establish and runs the "FRONTLINE West"
project at the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of
Journalism, where producers-in-residence work with graduates of the
documentary program on a number of FRONTLINE and “World” projects each
academic year.