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Published Stories:

Students Leading Way For News Industry

San Francisco Chronicle

Dean Neil Henry published an Op-Ed article in the San Francisco Chronicle extolling student work in digital media, in tribute to the Class of 2009.

Young Berkeley Scientist Saves Lives in Darfur

Smithsonian Magazine

Neil Henry writes in Smithsonian Magazine about Christina Galitsky, a young Lawrence Berkeley Labs scientist whose cook stove innovation is saving the lives of women and children in Darfur.

Students Investigating Public Records

Editor and Publisher

Berkeley grad students are conducting key public records research as part of an unprecedented Bay Area journalistic collaboration probing the August 2 murder of local editor Chauncey Bailey. Read about the project at Editor and Publisher.

Neil Henry on New Media

San Francisco Chronicle

Professor and Interim Dean Neil Henry has provided commentaries most recently for the San Francisco Chronicle and Marketplace Radio. His latest book, American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media, was published in May, and recently reviewed in the New York Review of Books.

Berkeley Singer Blends Opera, Blues, and Spirituals

Berkeley Daily Planet

For the Berkeley Daily Planet Sonia Narang, class of 2008, profiles singer Candace Johnson, a Berkeley postdoctoral fellow whose remarkable repertoire combines elements of Mozart infused with the passion of Mahalia Jackson.

Controversy over Yahoo Money

San Francisco Chronicle

First year students Cynthia Dizikes and Zachary Stauffer report in the San Francisco Chronicle on a debate among journalists around the world over a $1 million gift by Yahoo Inc. to a prestigious fellowship for journalists at Stanford University.

Neil Henry on Barry Bonds, The Algebra Project, and Journalism Education

San Francisco Chronicle, Smithsonian Magazine, the Quill Magazine

Prof. Henry has written most recently about slugger Barry Bonds in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Algebra Project of 1960s civil rights leader Bob Moses in Smithsonian Magazine, and journalism education in the Quill magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists.

9/11 -- Five Years Later

Oakland Tribune

First-year students in a news reporting class worked with the Oakland Tribune to produce a print and multimedia interview project. The project is also mirrored in this site's Projects section.

Launching a J-School in Ethiopia

Freedom Forum Online

For Freedom Forum Online, Professor Neil Henry writes about his involvement in launching a journalism school in Ethiopia.

Racial Fallout in the Newsroom

Nieman Reports

For Nieman Reports, Professor Neil Henry writes about the racial fallout in the newsroom from the Jayson Blair affair.

To My Former Students: How Race Works

The Chronicle of Higher Education

For The Chronicle of Higher Education, Professor Neil Henry writes an open letter to his black former students about the Jayson Blair/New York Times scandal.

Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy

Mother Jones

For Mother Jones, Professor Neil Henry reviews a book covering the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.

Letter From South Africa

Graduate School of Journalism

For the Graduate School of Journalism, Professor Neil Henry describes an international reporting course that began as an exciting but academic study of South African society and issues related to the coming elections but that has become, three months later, a priceless and incomparable exercise in on-the-ground journalistic training.

Books:

Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family

Pearl's Secret is a remarkable autobiography and family story that combines elements of history, investigative reporting, and personal narrative in a riveting, true-to-life mystery.

 

American Carnival: Journalism under Siege in an Age of New Media

American Carnival confronts the crisis facing professional journalism in this era of rapid technological transformation. American Carnival combines elements of memoir with extensive media research to explore critical contemporary issues ranging from reporting on the Iraq War, to American race relations, to the exploitation of the image of journalism by advertisers and politicians.