J-School course descriptions for Fall 2008
See also class schedule
J0 : Visiting Scholars Seminar
Instructor: Lydia Chavez
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 2-4 Th
CCN: Section: 0 Units: 1 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/ASeminar for Visiting Scholars.
Lydia Chávez started as a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune, later moving on to Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, where she served as El Salvador and South American bureau chief. In 2005, Chávez and her students collaborated to publish “Capitalism, God and A Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century” (Duke University Press). And in 1998, Chávez published, “The Color Bind: California’s Battle Against Affirmative Action,” which won the Leonard Silk Award (UC Press). She has also written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Examiner and magazine pieces for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazines and George Magazine. She holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
J24 : The Presidential Campaign Trail in Print (and Occasional Film)
Instructor: Susan Rasky
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 10-12 W
CCN: 48003 Section: 1 Units: 1 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 12The 2008 presidential campaign will be in high gear, a perfect time for political junkies and just plain spectators to check in on the candidates and the final leg of the race for the White House. We will read a selection of great campaign writing and reporting from presidential seasons past -drawn from Making of the President, Selling of the President, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Miami and the Siege of Chicago, What It Takes, and Primary Colors as well as the occasional campaign film. All the while, we will be sampling the current crop of political writers and candidates to see how they measure up against those who came before. Students will have their own political blog to write about the campaign and about campaign coverage. Those with a special interest in Congressional Elections are particularly encouraged to take this class. This seminar will meet for eight weeks, beginning September 10, 2008 and ending November 5, 2008. The eight Wednesday meeting dates will be announced in the first class meeting on September 10.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: 1st year undergraduates only.
Susan Rasky was the congressional correspondent for The New York Times. A winner of a George Polk Award for National Reporting, she began her career in Washington, D.C., covering economic policy for the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. and later reported for Reuters from Capitol Hill and the White House. Rasky was a columnist and contributing editor for the California Journal as well as a frequent political commentator for the Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee and NPR. She established and supervises the J-School’s California News Service, which gives students experience covering government and politics for news organizations throughout the country. She joined the faculty in 1991. Rasky received her bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley and holds a master’s degree in economic history from the London School of Economics.
J24 : TV
Instructor: Joan Bieder
Location: TBD Time:
CCN: 48006 Section: 2 Units: 1 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 12Restrictions and Prerequisites: 1st year undergraduates only
Joan Bieder worked for a decade as a television news producer at ABC News. Before coming to Berkeley, she taught print and broadcast journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Bieder has produced a series of videos on broadcast journalism, a film on female journalists in Asia and a video on the history of the Jews of Singapore. Her research has focused on freedom-of-the-press issues in Singapore, where she has spent several summers working as a consultant to the news staff of Singapore Television. Bieder is writing a book on the history of the Jews of Singapore and Southeast Asia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Goucher College.
J39 : Satellite Radio: Breaking the Bonds of Earth
Instructor: William Drummond
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 12:30-2:00 F
CCN: 48012 Section: 1 Units: 1 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 21Dramatic changes have taken place in the listening habits of consumers. Traditional AM and FM radio face a challenge from programming sources literally not of this earth. Satellite radio
entered the scene only about five years ago and has made significant inroads. Two services are available: XM and Sirius. Both services
offer a wider selection of music as well as talk and entertainment programming than terrestrial radio. This seminar will listen to and
critique satellite radio. Students should be prepared to listen critically and write about their reactions to what they are hearing.
The class will also examine other advances in audio technology. The goal is to develop an understanding of market forces in present-day
radio programming.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: Freshman and Sophomore students only.
William J. Drummond’s career includes stints at The (Louisville) Courier-Journal, where he covered the civil rights movement, and the Los Angeles Times, where he was a local reporter, then bureau chief in New Delhi and Jerusalem and later a Washington correspondent. Drummond was appointed a White House Fellow in 1976 by Gerald R. Ford, worked briefly for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and eventually became associate press secretary to President Jimmy Carter. In 1977 he joined NPR and became the founding editor of “Morning Edition.” Drummond has been honored with a National Press Club Foundation Award, the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Journalism Excellence, and the Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Black Condition from the National Association of Black Journalists. His research interest lies in incorporating stress-reduction techniques into journalism education. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
J200 : Reporting the News - Drummond
Instructor: William Drummond
Location: TW 108 Lower/ TH 251 Hearst Gym Time: 7-8:30 TW
CCN: 48051 Section: 3 Units: 6 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 12This course, an intensive 15-week workshop, provides the foundation for the rest of the curriculum and will take up the majority of your time during the first semester. J200 stresses hard news reporting, writing, and editing. Faculty members with extensive experience in newspaper reporting run their classes much like newsrooms. The aim is to produce publishable newspaper stories and many class assignments do end up in print, often in local dailies, weeklies, and regional newspapers. This course is considered the most important of your J-School career. Plan on about 20 hours of outside reporting time each week.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: J-School students only.
William J. Drummond’s career includes stints at The (Louisville) Courier-Journal, where he covered the civil rights movement, and the Los Angeles Times, where he was a local reporter, then bureau chief in New Delhi and Jerusalem and later a Washington correspondent. Drummond was appointed a White House Fellow in 1976 by Gerald R. Ford, worked briefly for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and eventually became associate press secretary to President Jimmy Carter. In 1977 he joined NPR and became the founding editor of “Morning Edition.” Drummond has been honored with a National Press Club Foundation Award, the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Journalism Excellence, and the Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Black Condition from the National Association of Black Journalists. His research interest lies in incorporating stress-reduction techniques into journalism education. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
J200 : Reporting the News - Estacio
Instructor: Terisa Estacio
Location: 209 Greenhouse Time: 10-12 T W
CCN: 48054 Section: 4 Units: 6 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 12This course, an intensive 15-week workshop, provides the foundation for the rest of the curriculum and will take up the majority of your time during the first semester. J200 stresses hard news reporting, writing, and editing. Faculty members with extensive experience in newspaper reporting run their classes much like newsrooms. The aim is to produce publishable newspaper stories and many class assignments do end up in print, often in local dailies, weeklies, and regional newspapers. This course is considered the most important of your J-School career. Plan on about 20 hours of outside reporting time each week.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: J-School students only.
Terisa started working with KRON in 2001. A veteran of the news business, Terisa's experience spans much of the nation. She previously worked as a correspondent for CBS's Newspath traveling the nation to all breaking news events. Terisa has covered numerous high-profile court cases including the trial of the men accused of beating and killing Matthew Shepard's because he was gay, and the trial and execution of Timothy McVeigh. Terisa has also traveled the country covering national disasters including the country's worst floods, hurricanes, and fires. Turning to politics, Terisa worked as a White House correspondent for Tribune Broadcasting during President Clinton's first term. She was later on the scene for much of the breaking news surrounding the 2000 Presidential race between President Bush and then Candidate Al Gore. In more than two decades as a journalist, Terisa has worked for television stations in Los Angeles, Houston, Texas, Sacramento, Reno and Eureka. Now settled in the Bay Area, Terisa covers a wide range of topics for KRON-TV, with an emphasis on crime, the courts and top investigative stories of the day. Terisa was born and raised in the Bay Area and is very proud and extremely happy to be back home covering the important stories for Bay Area residents. She lives in the North Bay with her dog, Kalvin.
J200 : Reporting the News - Chavez
Instructor: Lydia Chavez
Location: 209 Greenhouse Time: 8-9:30 TTh
CCN: 48045 Section: 1 Units: 6 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 12This course, an intensive 15-week workshop, provides the foundation for the rest of the curriculum and will take up the majority of your time during the first semester. J200 stresses hard news reporting, writing, and editing. Faculty members with extensive experience in newspaper reporting run their classes much like newsrooms. The aim is to produce publishable newspaper stories and many class assignments do end up in print, often in local dailies, weeklies, and regional newspapers. This course is considered the most important of your J-School career. Plan on about 20 hours of outside reporting time each week.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: J-School students only.
Lydia Chávez started as a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune, later moving on to Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, where she served as El Salvador and South American bureau chief. In 2005, Chávez and her students collaborated to publish “Capitalism, God and A Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century” (Duke University Press). And in 1998, Chávez published, “The Color Bind: California’s Battle Against Affirmative Action,” which won the Leonard Silk Award (UC Press). She has also written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Examiner and magazine pieces for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazines and George Magazine. She holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
J200 : Reporting the News - Curley
Instructor: John Curley
Location: Mon B-1/Tues 104 Time: 10-12 M T
CCN: 48057 Section: 5 Units: 6 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 12This course, an intensive 15-week workshop, provides the foundation for the rest of the curriculum and will take up the majority of your time during the first semester. J200 stresses hard news reporting, writing, and editing. Faculty members with extensive experience in newspaper reporting run their classes much like newsrooms. The aim is to produce publishable newspaper stories and many class assignments do end up in print, often in local dailies, weeklies, and regional newspapers. This course is considered the most important of your J-School career. Plan on about 20 hours of outside reporting time each week.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: J-School students only.
John has an extensive background in journalism, and most recently served as a deputy managing editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. John was the operational leader at the paper, helping to direct the work of reporters, editors and photographers. On a daily basis, he was responsible for the content and presentation of Page One. Previously, he was a beat writer, general assignment reporter and a columnist. From a multimedia perspective, for two years he appeared nightly on San Francisco's KPIX television during the 11 p.m. newscast, giving updates from the newsroom about the paper's biggest stories. He also wrote and did photography for the Culture Blog, an online-only, street-level look at some of the people and things that make the Bay Area the unique place it is.
J200 : Reporting the News - Gorney
Instructor: Cynthia Gorney
Location: M Lower/ TH Grnhse Time: 8:30-10 M, 8-11 Th
CCN: 48048 Section: 2 Units: 6 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 12This course, an intensive 15-week workshop, provides the foundation for the rest of the curriculum and will take up the majority of your time during the first semester. J200 stresses hard news reporting, writing, and editing. Faculty members with extensive experience in newspaper reporting run their classes much like newsrooms. The aim is to produce publishable newspaper stories and many class assignments do end up in print, often in local dailies, weeklies, and regional newspapers. This course is considered the most important of your J-School career. Plan on about 20 hours of outside reporting time each week.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: J-School students only.
Cynthia Gorney joined the faculty in 1999, after a career at The Washington Post that included serving as an award-winning national features writer, South American bureau chief and the first writer for the Post’s Style section based on the West Coast. She is the author of “Articles of Faith: A History of the Abortion Wars,” and has written for many magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and the American Journalism Review. She is currently a New Yorker staff writer. Gorney is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
J210 : News Photography
Instructor: Ken Light
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 3-5 M
CCN: 48060 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: 15An exploration and survey of newspaper photography including daily news photo assignments, and picture story development.
Paula Lubens, San Jose Mercury News staff photographer will participate in 8 weeks of the class offering insider perspective of the newspaper world and critique.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: Restrictions and Prerequisites: UC Journalism Graduate students. By portfolio review for others.
Light, curator of the Photojournalism Center at the School, is the author of 5 monographs including Texas Death Row.
J211 : Reporting the news-lab--Chavez
Instructor: Lydia Chavez
Location: 108/Lower NG Time: 9-6 W
CCN: 48063 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: 12Lab Component for J200.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: This course is only for first year students in J200.
Lydia Chávez started as a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune, later moving on to Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, where she served as El Salvador and South American bureau chief. In 2005, Chávez and her students collaborated to publish “Capitalism, God and A Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century” (Duke University Press). And in 1998, Chávez published, “The Color Bind: California’s Battle Against Affirmative Action,” which won the Leonard Silk Award (UC Press). She has also written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Examiner and magazine pieces for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazines and George Magazine. She holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
J211 : Reporting the news-lab--Drummond
Instructor: William Drummond
Location: 108/Lower NG Time: 8:30-5 Th
CCN: 48069 Section: 3 Units: 3 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: 12Lab Component for J200.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: This course is for first year students in
J200 only.William J. Drummond’s career includes stints at The (Louisville) Courier-Journal, where he covered the civil rights movement, and the Los Angeles Times, where he was a local reporter, then bureau chief in New Delhi and Jerusalem and later a Washington correspondent. Drummond was appointed a White House Fellow in 1976 by Gerald R. Ford, worked briefly for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and eventually became associate press secretary to President Jimmy Carter. In 1977 he joined NPR and became the founding editor of “Morning Edition.” Drummond has been honored with a National Press Club Foundation Award, the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Journalism Excellence, and the Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Black Condition from the National Association of Black Journalists. His research interest lies in incorporating stress-reduction techniques into journalism education. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
J211 : Reporting the news-lab--Gorney
Instructor: Cynthia Gorney
Location: 108/Lower NG Time: 8-5 T
CCN: 48066 Section: 2 Units: 3 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: 12Lab Component for J200.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: This course is for first year students in J200 only.
Cynthia Gorney joined the faculty in 1999, after a career at The Washington Post that included serving as an award-winning national features writer, South American bureau chief and the first writer for the Post’s Style section based on the West Coast. She is the author of “Articles of Faith: A History of the Abortion Wars,” and has written for many magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and the American Journalism Review. She is currently a New Yorker staff writer. Gorney is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
J211 : Reporting the news-lab--Curley
Instructors:
Location: 209 Greenhouse Time: 9:30-5 Th
CCN: 48075 Section: 5 Units: 3 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: 12Lab Component for J200.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: This course is for first year students in J200 only.
J211 : Reporting the news-lab--Estacio
Instructor: Terisa Estacio
Location: 209 Greenhouse Time: 9-6 M
CCN: 48072 Section: 4 Units: 3 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: 12Lab Component for J200.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: This course is for first year students J200 only.
Terisa started working with KRON in 2001. A veteran of the news business, Terisa's experience spans much of the nation. She previously worked as a correspondent for CBS's Newspath traveling the nation to all breaking news events. Terisa has covered numerous high-profile court cases including the trial of the men accused of beating and killing Matthew Shepard's because he was gay, and the trial and execution of Timothy McVeigh. Terisa has also traveled the country covering national disasters including the country's worst floods, hurricanes, and fires. Turning to politics, Terisa worked as a White House correspondent for Tribune Broadcasting during President Clinton's first term. She was later on the scene for much of the breaking news surrounding the 2000 Presidential race between President Bush and then Candidate Al Gore. In more than two decades as a journalist, Terisa has worked for television stations in Los Angeles, Houston, Texas, Sacramento, Reno and Eureka. Now settled in the Bay Area, Terisa covers a wide range of topics for KRON-TV, with an emphasis on crime, the courts and top investigative stories of the day. Terisa was born and raised in the Bay Area and is very proud and extremely happy to be back home covering the important stories for Bay Area residents. She lives in the North Bay with her dog, Kalvin.
J212 : Advanced Radio
Instructor: William Drummond
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 2-3:30 WF
CCN: 48078 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/ADescription Forthcoming.
William J. Drummond’s career includes stints at The (Louisville) Courier-Journal, where he covered the civil rights movement, and the Los Angeles Times, where he was a local reporter, then bureau chief in New Delhi and Jerusalem and later a Washington correspondent. Drummond was appointed a White House Fellow in 1976 by Gerald R. Ford, worked briefly for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and eventually became associate press secretary to President Jimmy Carter. In 1977 he joined NPR and became the founding editor of “Morning Edition.” Drummond has been honored with a National Press Club Foundation Award, the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Journalism Excellence, and the Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Black Condition from the National Association of Black Journalists. His research interest lies in incorporating stress-reduction techniques into journalism education. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
J213 : Multimedia for Photographers
Instructor: Mimi Chakarova
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 6-9 Th
CCN: 48082 Section: 2 Units: 3 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 10Multimedia for Photographers" will teach advanced photo students how
to develop long-term projects, gain the trust and access necessary to
photograph complex stories, and use multimedia slideshows as an
effective tool of telling visual stories well. The class will explore
these subjects through intensive critiques, technical workshops and
photo/audio editing. By carefully editing and sequencing stories,
students will learn how to build cohesive narrativesRestrictions and Prerequisites: J-School Students only.
Chakarova received her BFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She completed her graduate thesis in the Visual Studies Department at UC Berkeley. She has had numerous solo exhibitions of her documentary projects on Africa and the Caribbean. She is the recipient of the 2003 Dorothea Lange Fellowship for outstanding work in documentary photography and the 2005 Magnum Photos Inge Morath Award for her work on sex trafficking in Eastern Europe.
J213 : Visual Storytelling: Advanced Documentary Projects-Blub Book Photo Project
Instructor: Ken Light
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 10-12 M
CCN: 48081 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: N/AYou will work throughout the term on one in-depth group photo documentary project in class and we will produce a bound Blurb photo book. This course will focus on developing a personal photographic style, photo editing, sequencing and publication as well as concentrating on visual story telling focused on a single subject. Class will include historical overviews, writing text to accompany photographic work.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: UC Journalism Graduate students only. By portfolio review for others.
Light, curator of the Photojournalism Center at the School, is the author of 5 monographs including Texas Death Row.
J214 : Photography Tutorial: Black and White Photography
Instructor: Mimi Chakarova
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 6-9 T
CCN: 48083 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: 8The primary goal of the course will be to emphasize the technical aspects in photography such as darkroom skills, lighting, cropping, composition, editing, and presentation. Students will be working on weekly assignments that would directly correlate with the material covered in class. This course will require students to work extensively in the darkroom and to improve not only their conceptual understanding of the medium, but especially their technical, shooting and printing, knowledge of photography.
Each student will choose a documentary photography project that he/she will work on throughout the semester in conjunction with the weekly assignments and darkroom sessions. The final project is due the end of the semester and must exemplify all skills and concepts that were covered in class. Several Photoshop tutorials will also be incorporated for those students who are interested in learning digital photography and digital photo editing. The sessions will cover scanning, resolution, and tools applicable to image manipulation, color correction, and output. The Photography Tutorial and its content will be, of course, to a large extent determined by the questions raised by students, their levels of experience in the medium, as well as their final goals.Restrictions and Prerequisites: J-School Students Only
Chakarova received her BFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She completed her graduate thesis in the Visual Studies Department at UC Berkeley. She has had numerous solo exhibitions of her documentary projects on Africa and the Caribbean. She is the recipient of the 2003 Dorothea Lange Fellowship for outstanding work in documentary photography and the 2005 Magnum Photos Inge Morath Award for her work on sex trafficking in Eastern Europe.
J215 : Multimedia Boot camp-sec.1
Instructor: Paul Grabowicz
Location: 106/Upper NG Time: TBD
CCN: 48084 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: N/AFormerly titled: Multimedia Skills
This class is a five-day intensive bootcamp in which students learn the fundamentals of using digital audio, video and photo equipment, editing digital video, audio and photography, creating map mash-ups and participating in social networks, and producing multimedia stories. The class is designed to expose students to what it's like to report in an environment where stories can be reported and told using a variety of different media. Instruction includes using digital video cameras; editing digital video with FinalCut Pro; using compact flash digital audio recorders; editing digital audio with Soundtrack Pro; using digital photo cameras; editing digital photos with PhotoShop; basic training in broadcast and photography techniques; and using Flash and Dreamweaver to create multimedia stories and web sites. An instructor who specializes in each particular form of media will teach that segment of the class. Students work as teams in the field reporting on local feature stories and then in computer labs producing multimedia projects, to be completed by the end of the bootcamp. The skills learned then will be applied in reporting for J200 classes.Paul Grabowicz is Director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting, new media publishing and computer assisted reporting.
J215 : Multimedia Boot camp-sec.2
Instructor: Paul Grabowicz
Location: 106/Upper NG Time:
CCN: 48087 Section: 2 Units: 3 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: N/AFormerly titled: Multimedia Skills
This class is a five-day intensive bootcamp in which students learn the fundamentals of using digital audio, video and photo equipment, editing digital video, audio and photography, creating map mash-ups and participating in social networks, and producing multimedia stories. The class is designed to expose students to what it's like to report in an environment where stories can be reported and told using a variety of different media. Instruction includes using digital video cameras; editing digital video with FinalCut Pro; using compact flash digital audio recorders; editing digital audio with Soundtrack Pro; using digital photo cameras; editing digital photos with PhotoShop; basic training in broadcast and photography techniques; and using Flash and Dreamweaver to create multimedia stories and web sites. An instructor who specializes in each particular form of media will teach that segment of the class. Students work as teams in the field reporting on local feature stories and then in computer labs producing multimedia projects, to be completed by the end of the bootcamp. The skills learned then will be applied in reporting for J200 classes.Paul Grabowicz is Director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting, new media publishing and computer assisted reporting.
J215 : Multimedia Boot camp-sec.3
Instructor: Paul Grabowicz
Location: 106/Upper NG Time:
CCN: 48089 Section: 3 Units: 3 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: N/AFormerly titled: Multimedia Skills
This class is a five-day intensive bootcamp in which students learn the fundamentals of using digital audio, video and photo equipment, editing digital video, audio and photography, creating map mash-ups and participating in social networks, and producing multimedia stories. The class is designed to expose students to what it's like to report in an environment where stories can be reported and told using a variety of different media. Instruction includes using digital video cameras; editing digital video with FinalCut Pro; using compact flash digital audio recorders; editing digital audio with Soundtrack Pro; using digital photo cameras; editing digital photos with PhotoShop; basic training in broadcast and photography techniques; and using Flash and Dreamweaver to create multimedia stories and web sites. An instructor who specializes in each particular form of media will teach that segment of the class. Students work as teams in the field reporting on local feature stories and then in computer labs producing multimedia projects, to be completed by the end of the bootcamp. The skills learned then will be applied in reporting for J200 classes.Paul Grabowicz is Director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting, new media publishing and computer assisted reporting.
J216 : Advanced Multimedia
Instructors: Paul Grabowicz, Bill Gannon
Location: 108/Lower NG Time: 5-8 Th
CCN: 48090 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: 8In this class students will learn the skills needed to run comprehensive online news web sites, as well as producing more sophisticate multimedia projects.
The class will run five local community-based news web sites, for which J200 students will be producing multimedia and other digital content. Students in the advanced class will work with the J200 classes on designing and managing the sites and experimenting with adding advanced features that best serve the local communities. These will range from geocoding of data for map mash-ups and delivery of stories and information to mobile devices to creation of social networks and other platforms for citizen participation.
Students also will produce multimedia story packages for the sites, as well as multimedia stories on other topics.
The class is designed to give students a solid understanding of the technical and conceptual skills needed to create and run sophisticated news web sites and deliver content on a variety of digital platforms, and to produce high quality, in-depth multimedia projects.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: Only open to 2nd year students
Paul Grabowicz is Director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting, new media publishing and computer assisted reporting.
Bill Gannon, for many years a professional journalist, is Editorial Director and Managing Editor at Yahoo!, responsible for front-page news, product development, content programming, editorial strategy and policy.
J219 : Videography
Instructor: Jon Else
Location: TBD Time:
CCN: 48108 Section: 6 Units: 1 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/ADescription Forthcoming.
Jon Else produced and directed the documentaries “The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb,” “Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven,” “A Job at Ford’s” part of the PBS series “The Great Depression,” “Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature,” “Sing Faster: The Stagehands’ Ring Cycle,” and “Open Outcry.” He was series producer and cinematographer for “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years.” Else served as cinematographer on documentaries for PBS, BBC, ABC, MTV and HBO, including the BBC/PBS “History of Rock and Roll,” the Paramount/MTV feature documentary “Tupac: Resurrection” and “Afghanistan: Hell of a Nation,” and numerous commercials and music videos. He is directing a feature documentary about nuclear weapons. Else was a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and has won an Academy Award, four National Emmys, several Alfred I. DuPont and Peabody awards, the Prix Italia, the Sundance Special Jury Prize and Sundance Filmmaker’s Trophy. Else received his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley and his master’s degree in communication from Stanford University.
J219 : Picture and Sound
Instructors: Kean Sakata, Karen Everett, Jon Else
Location: 106/Upper NG Time: 12-1 M
CCN: 48102 Section: 4 Units: 1 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/AJ 219 Picture and Sound focuses on advanced production (camera, sound and editing) techniques that will raise Television and Documentary Masters Projects to professional standards.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: This course is required for second year students enrolled in J284 Documentary production) and J285 Longform TV production. The prerequiites are J 282 and J 283 and permsision of the instructors.
forthcoming
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”.
Jon Else produced and directed the documentaries “The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb,” “Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven,” “A Job at Ford’s” part of the PBS series “The Great Depression,” “Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature,” “Sing Faster: The Stagehands’ Ring Cycle,” and “Open Outcry.” He was series producer and cinematographer for “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years.” Else served as cinematographer on documentaries for PBS, BBC, ABC, MTV and HBO, including the BBC/PBS “History of Rock and Roll,” the Paramount/MTV feature documentary “Tupac: Resurrection” and “Afghanistan: Hell of a Nation,” and numerous commercials and music videos. He is directing a feature documentary about nuclear weapons. Else was a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and has won an Academy Award, four National Emmys, several Alfred I. DuPont and Peabody awards, the Prix Italia, the Sundance Special Jury Prize and Sundance Filmmaker’s Trophy. Else received his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley and his master’s degree in communication from Stanford University.
J219 : MINI: Advanced Video for the Web (7 weeks)
Instructors: Marilyn Pittmann, Sam Grant
Location: 108/Lower NG Time: 2-5 F
CCN: 48093 Section: 1 Units: 1 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 15This mini course will cover the basics of producing, shooting, and editing professional VJ quality video for the web. We will cover technical and creative aspects of shooting, technical and creative aspects of editing using Final Cut Pro, and the practical concerns of producing a video story either as a solo video journalist or as part of a two-man team. Students also will receive professional training in doing standups and voiceovers. Each student will produce one 3-5 minute video story.
Class dates: 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 12/5.Restrictions and Prerequisites: This class must be taken pass/not pass.
Marilyn Pittman is a 25-year broadcast veteran. Originally trained as an actor, she has played many roles in radio and television, including news anchor, reporter, writer, producer, and host. She currently makes a living as a voice actor, a stand-up comic, and a talk show host. Since 1989 she has been teaching broadcasters and executives what she knows about performance. She co-teaches the Introductory Multimedia Reporting Class.
Samantha Grant is a Bay Area documentary film and radio producer. Through her production company GUSHproductions, LLC Samantha has worked with ABC, MTV, CNN, NPR, PRI, FRONTLINE/World, PBS, Al Jazeera International, and Current TV, as well as several national corporate clients like 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 for a short documentary she produced about the black market trade in Human Kidneys in India. In 2006, Samantha began work on a documentary film which is still in production about the Jayson Blair/New York Times scandal. In 2007, Sam was named a Carnegie/Knight fellow and through the News21 fellowship Sam directed a short documentary about life after Polygamy called “Now Leaving Colorado City”. When she’s not shooting, recording, producing or directing independent documentaries, you can find Sam lecturing at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Knight Digital Media Center.
J219 : MINI: ProTools (6 weeks)
Instructor: Shane Sharkey
Location: 209 Greenhouse Time: 4-6 W
CCN: 48096 Section: 2 Units: 1 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/AProTools Basics
This course focuses on the basic elements of the digital audio workstation called ProTools. The course will run for six weeks, with one two-hour session each week. By the end of the six-week course, students will be able to perform basic operations within the ProTools program, including recording, editing and mixing audio.
Start date forthcoming.
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.
J219 : MINI: Advanced Flash
Instructor: Jeremy Rue
Location: 108/Lower NG Time: 1-4 F
CCN: 48099 Section: 3 Units: 1 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/AThis mini-class will cover advanced Flash techniques such as using ActionScript, writing code to control movie timelines and content, event handlers with both buttons and movieclips, external flash movies (.flv files), etc.
Class Meetings: 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10Restrictions and Prerequisites: This class must be taken pass/not pass.
Jeremy Rue is a recent graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he studied advanced multimedia storytelling, photojournalism and print journalism. He previously interned as a multimedia journalist for the Oakland Tribune, where he produced a number of Web-based projects related to the rise of Oakland homicides in 2006. Before enrolling at UC Berkeley, Rue previously had worked as a photojournalist for a number of publications, including The Fresno Bee, The Modesto Bee and the Duluth News-Tribune in Minnesota. He then went on to become a reporter for the Selma (Calif.) Enterprise, where he covered city government, courts and crime. Rue is also the recipient of the 2007 Dorothea Lange Fellowship for his photo documentary work on migrant farm workers in the California Central Valley . He is an expert with Adobe Flash/ActionScript, HTML/CSS, PHP and a variety of other web scripting languages.
J226 : Following the Food Chain
Instructor: Michael Pollan
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 9-12 T
CCN: 48114 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 12It might be hard to see what transpire between a child and Big Mac as an ecological event, but of course that's exactly what it is. Like every other creature, we are a species connected to other species, as well as to the earth and the sun, by a food chain-albeit a very special sort of food chain, one that's been shaped by political and economic decisions as much as by biology. This course aims to develop the intellectual context in which to understand, and connect, the many food stories now finding their way to the front page: GMOs, the obesity epidemic, factory farming, animal rights and welfare, antibiotic resistance, agricultural pollution, agricultural subsidies, third world hunger, and the rise of alternatives to the industrial food system, such as organic agriculture and "slow food." Expect to do lots of reading (from Upton Sinclair and Rachel Carson to Wendell Berry and Eric Schlosser) and writing.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: There will be an application process for admission to this course. After you register on-line, the instructor will contact you during the first week of August with procedure. Waitlisters will also be contacted so they can apply too. Non-Jschool students should contact the instructor directly. J-School students will have registration priority.
Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto." His previous book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World", "A Place of My Own", and "Second Nature". A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, Pollan is the recipient of numerous journalistic awards, including the James Beard Award for best magazine series in 2003 and the Reuters-I.U.C.N. 2000 Global Award for Environmental Journalism. His articles have been anthologized in Best American Science Writing, Best American Essays and the Norton Book of Nature Writing. Pollan served for many years as executive editor of Harper's Magazine and is now the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley.
J228 : Political Reporting
Instructor: Susan Rasky
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 2-5 M
CCN: 48116 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 12Sometimes the most enlightening way to cover a presidential election is by using the the hot House, Senate and gubernatorial races below it as listening posts. We'll be reading heavily first, and then on the ground in Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, Ohio, Missouri, Virginia and at least one state in the deep South. The class also will be responsible for keeping the Berkeley portion of the NEWS 21 web site fresh, which means, as always, that students are encouraged to produce stories in all media formats.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: The travel budget is limited, and first priority will go to students who took the political reporting class in Spring 08. First year political junkies are welcome to audit with permission of their J200 instructors.
Susan Rasky was the congressional correspondent for The New York Times. A winner of a George Polk Award for National Reporting, she began her career in Washington, D.C., covering economic policy for the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. and later reported for Reuters from Capitol Hill and the White House. Rasky was a columnist and contributing editor for the California Journal as well as a frequent political commentator for the Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee and NPR. She established and supervises the J-School’s California News Service, which gives students experience covering government and politics for news organizations throughout the country. She joined the faculty in 1991. Rasky received her bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley and holds a master’s degree in economic history from the London School of Economics.
J230 : Business Reporting
Instructors: Matthew Richtel, Marcia Parker
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 5:30-8:30 M
CCN: 48117 Section: 1 Units: 4 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 12T.A. Allison Firestone allisonfirestone@yahoo.com
Intimidated by numbers, statistics, financial statements and business jargon? Can’t imagine how covering business could be interesting?
Wondering how the mortgage meltdown could have happened and why the U.S. and global economy is still reeling from it?
Can’t imagine how to tackle the hostile bid Microsoft made for Yahoo or writing an interesting earnings report on Google?
This basic business reporting class is for you.
More and more business, finance and economy stories lead the front page, the evening news, and web sites and publication. We aim to inspire you to see why they are fascinating topics to report on and write about. We’ll demystify the jargon, pump up your knowledge of numbers, help you understand companies big and small, and arm you with the knowledge to cover a business beat, from hard news to trend stories and profiles.
In many respects, business journalism is exactly the same as general journalism. Stories are usually pegged to news events; they often describe trends; the narrative benefits from colorful characters and scene; stories usually aim to educate, inform, as well as entertain; and so forth. But in other respects, business journalism--like science writing--requires special skills, such as a grasp of accounting, finance, economics and a modicum of numeracy. These are skills that will be valuable in all of your reporting.
We promise to give you the foundation to take on basic business stories with confidence, the in-depth editing feedback and access to us to make your stories better and get them published, the exposure to let you consider the field as a career option and the high level contacts to apply for internships and jobs at key business media outlets. We’ll also help you get an internship.
To cement those efforts, we’ll bring in some of the most talented business journalists, industry leaders and entrepreneurs, including from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Google.
Finally, this class is designed to be a year-long course, but you don’t have to take both semesters. During the spring semester we take a week-long trip to New York and meet with the top business news, corporate and Wall Street leaders. The first 1.5 hours will be devoted to lectures on the topic to build basic knowledge and reporting skills; the second half will be speakers and exercises devoted to writing skills.
Requirements & Final Exam:
There are weekly handouts and readings from two textbooks, “Show Me The Money” by Chris Rausch and “Writing About Business. The New Columbia Knight-Bagehot Guide to Economics & business Journalism.” Writing About Business is also available as an ebook from Diesel Books at http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/item/parent-0231118341. Amazon has a deal to buy both. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805849556/002-8254169-6672060?v=glance&n=283155
You must also read one local daily newspaper business section (San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, The Wall Street Journal, and one business magazine of your choice whether it’s Forbes, Fortune, The Economist, Wired, Business Week, the new Conde Nast Portfolio magazine or something else. We will have The Economist available to you each week in class, as well as an online subscription to the WSJ.
You will choose one book to review about business, finance or the economy. 750 words. Due: 11/14.
We will do in-class exercises to help you work on deadline reporting. You will also get training on the Bloomberg terminal, an extraordinary resource for reporting on domestic and international stories. There will also be several Bloomberg exercises.
There will be a final take home exam the last week of class that is focused on the core concepts we’ve covered.
Reporting and Writing Assignments:
To pass this course, students will either work on a series of stories and/or project Marcia will be finalizing for local and national publications this summer, or write six short business stories around 750-800 words each on strict deadline and one book review, with one story due approximately every two weeks. We’ll provide the contacts at key local business publications, and where appropriate, national ones as well. Every student will write one story in each one of the following five categories every two weeks, but in any order the student chooses. Stories are due every other Friday, at 5 p.m. The categories are:
· Companies, including one breaking news story and one earnings story on deadline in a single day, and one small business profile
· People
· Trends
· Topic of your choice
Placement in newspapers:
The instructors will work with various publications--including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Examiner, the East Bay Business Times, Marketwatch and others —to publish as many of the stories that students write in class as possible. Ideally, every student will thus complete the course with a small portfolio of clippings.
Once the instructors receive a first draft of a story, before 5PM on the deadline day, they will turn around the story within 2 days with thorough comments and edits. The student then has until Friday at 5PM of the subsequent week to file a final draft. Students will do much of their learning in this course through this iterative process of being edited and re-writing their stories.
What We Will Cover:
We’ll start with an overview of the business reporting landscape today, including old and new editorial players in print, broadcast, and new media. We will have a panel open to the school with key editors from these publications early in the semester.
We’ll also cover dealing with business people, media relations and corporate communications staff, and public relations firms.
Then we’ll go into specific core reporting and writing skills you’ll need.
Companies
We will cover:
- Corporate structure
- Accounting and financial statements
- Corporate finance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Regulation/public records
- Small business
- Developing sources and story ideas
- Corporate governance
- Writing breaking news
Business People
We will cover:
- Institutional Investors
- Dealmakers (Wall Street, venture capitalists, private equity firms)
- Executive compensation
- Corporation communications staffs/public relations firms
- Interviewing skills and styles of writing personality profiles
Employment
We will cover:
- Workplace issues
- Employment trends and tracking
- Immigration
- Unionization
- Jobs, growth and communities
- Covering labor and the workplace
Markets
We will cover:
- Stock, bond and commodities markets
- Mutual funds, life insurance and pension funds
- Investment styles and philosophies
- Securities
- Covering Personal Finance
Since 2000, Matt Richtel has worked as a technology reporter for the New York Times out of its San Francisco Bureau. He is the author of the novel 'Hooked,' a thriller published in June of 2007, and the writer of the daily syndicated comic strip "Rudy Park." When not writing, he is playing tennis, napping, rooting for the Cal Bears, perfecting his guacamole recipe and hanging out with his wife.
Marcia Parker is director of the Bloomberg Business Reporting Program at the Graduate School of Journalism. She has been a reporter and editor for more than 20 years, starting out in the wire service before specializing in business, and covered corporate America, Wall Street, corporate finance and corporate governance. After moving to California in the late 80s, she became the Business Editor and later Managing Editor of the Contra Costa Times newspapers. Ms. Parker moved to the online media world, becoming Assistant Managing Editor of the personal finance website, quicken.com, and then Director of Programming at AOL Time Warner, where she launched a new site and channel for entrepreneurs. Ms. Parker earned her master's degree in international affairs at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Tri Valley magazine, a regional publication, and was the founding editor of Nirvana Woman magazine. She also is a co-founder of the World Free Press Institute, which conducts media training in developing countries around the world.
J234 : International Reporting: India
Instructors: Palagummi Sainath, Lydia Chavez
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: W 10-1
CCN: 48120 Section: 1 Units: 4 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 8The course prepares students to visit and report on one of the most complex societies in the world, India. A nation with 22 "official languages" and where close to 30 are spoken by more than a million native speakers each. (Some of these have over 50 million speakers each.) Where the press alone appears in many scripts with tens of millions of readers. The course acquaints students with complex and burning issues of contemporary India, beyond the standard cliches of globalization (e.g. Emerging Tiger). How do we report not just the techno- success stories but the rich diversity of its politics and culture? The course prepares students to report on some of the most crucial contemporary issues and processes: inequality, hunger, displacement, caste, sectarian conflict and the raging agrarian crisis. It prepares students for an India that's far more complex, far more nuanced, far more colourful, exciting and challenging, not the India they would meet with Tom Friedmann
Restrictions and Prerequisites: Instructor Approval Required
forthcoming
Lydia Chávez started as a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune, later moving on to Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, where she served as El Salvador and South American bureau chief. In 2005, Chávez and her students collaborated to publish “Capitalism, God and A Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century” (Duke University Press). And in 1998, Chávez published, “The Color Bind: California’s Battle Against Affirmative Action,” which won the Leonard Silk Award (UC Press). She has also written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Examiner and magazine pieces for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazines and George Magazine. She holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
J235 : Asia Colloquium
Instructors: Min Zin, Lydia Chavez
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 4 - 6 W
CCN: 48081 Section: 1 Units: 2 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 12Surging economies? Terrorist splinter groups? Nuclear brinksmanship? Dictators and democrats? Environmental hazards? Outsourcing and sweat shops? Press controls? The fabric of everyday life? How might you report from a bureau in Asia? And what would you report? This course will look at selected countries from the inside out and the outside in -- with perspectives, analysis and guidance from commentators here and journalists there. How to research and prepare for reporting; how to get to sources; how to assess risks in the field; how to define and develop the story. Students will examine regional issues in the news and analyze different approaches to coverage. They will collaborate with visiting scholars to write two short feature articles (2 credits) or participate in weekly discussions and debates (1 credit).
Min Zin got involved in student activism early in his life when in 1988, as a 14-year-old high school student, a pro-democracy movement swept through Burma. He founded a nation-wide high school student union and worked closely with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. He went into hiding in 1989 to avoid arrest by the military, and his underground activist-cum-writer life lasted for nine years until he fled across the Thai-Burma border in August 1997. He was a cultural page editor (1999 to 2002) of the Thailand-based Irrawaddy magazine (www.irrawaddy.org), later becoming its assistant editor (2002 to 2004). Shifting from print to radio journalism, from 2004 to 2007 Min Zin delivered hard news, commentary, features, and interviews as an international broadcaster with the Washington-based Radio Free Asia (Burmese Service). He was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Journalism in 2001-2002. He is now a freelance journalist writing for Far Eastern Economic Review, The Bangkok Post, The Irrawaddy and other publications.
Lydia Chávez started as a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune, later moving on to Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, where she served as El Salvador and South American bureau chief. In 2005, Chávez and her students collaborated to publish “Capitalism, God and A Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century” (Duke University Press). And in 1998, Chávez published, “The Color Bind: California’s Battle Against Affirmative Action,” which won the Leonard Silk Award (UC Press). She has also written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Examiner and magazine pieces for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazines and George Magazine. She holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
J243 : Tackling the Long Form Story
Instructor: Cynthia Gorney
Location: 142/Library NG Time: 9-12 F
CCN: 48126 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 10This advanced reporting course for second-years is aimed at the master's project, but welcomes anyone interested in learning to conceive and report newspaper and magazine stories intended to run at 3000 to 8000 words. If you've ever taken on projects like this, you know that the challenge of the sustained piece is not just in the writing; it begins long before that, when you have to figure out your broader story, your immediate story, your structural possibilities, your narrative lines, your target home for the piece you have in mind--and, because of all that, the nature of the reporting itself.
There are two ways to take this class—TLF, and for a few extra people an abridged version called TLF/Reading.
1. TLF (3 units, maximum 10) is the class I’ve taught for some years now: one 3-hour class per week. Readings, which are heavy, include profiles, book excerpts, Pulitzer-winning newspaper features, magazine pieces from a variety of outlets. Lots of close examination of technique; I like to take stories apart and study things like transitional devices, narrative power, the elements of a strong opening, challenges in handling time, and funneling material in and out (you’ll see what that means).
While you are in this class, expect to be spending a lot of concentrated time reporting your story. (See below, Restrictions & Prerequisites, for specifics.) Don’t plan to take any other courses this semester involving heavy reporting. Writing assignments start in early September: reporting memos, story pitches, character studies, narrative scenes, experimental leads and closings, etc. Your intensive reporting time is September and the first three weeks of October; first draft due in early November.
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2. TLF/Reading (1 unit, 9 weeks, pass/no pass only) will be offered for a maximum of five more students who are interested in the reading & technical dissections but plan to be doing their own reporting & writing in other classes (including doc, radio, new media, etc.) These extra students will join the weekly class for the first 90 minutes, as we talk about the reading material, and only until late October. There are no prerequisites for this version, but if you sign up, I’ll count on you to read everything carefully and speak your mind in class.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: What to do if you want to take TLF:
By August 1, send me an email (gorney@berkeley.edu) with following info:
--What is the longest piece you’ve ever written, published or unpublished, and what was it about?
--What writing classes, if any, have you already taken at school? Did you attend my WAC workshops this spring?
--Who was your J200 teacher?
--Three project ideas. One can be your favorite & the most developed, but you need backups. For each idea:
The reporting has to be local enough that you can keep going back for more. (i.e. No stories based in Japan or Bolivia.)
You must have either secured access or be nearly sure you’ll be able to. (i.e. No Sean Penn profiles.) If you have a kind of person in mind, but haven’t yet settled on the actual person—an undocumented immigrant, an athlete in training—then tell me that, and make sure you’ve done enough preliminary reporting to be sure you’ll be able to find such a person around here.
You must have already done an extensive Nexis/Lexis & local publications search on your idea, to see what’s already been done. If there’s a lot, what would be new about your take? How would you be advancing the story?
Make sure you’re proposing a story, not big interest-area you hope has a story lurking somewhere within. If it’s the latter, you’ll eat up half your reporting time trying to figure out what your story is. Remember: “Undocumented immigrants” is an interest area. “A month with the Garcia family of Hayward, as they make their decision about the future of their American-born son while his mother faces deportation,” is a story.
Review “10 Ways to Interrogate Your Story Idea,” if you got in on WAC. Prime questions to ask yourself: Why now? What’s the focus? How would I describe the story, for a budget line or an index page, in a maximum of two sentences? Who are (or might be) my characters? What will I be able to watch happening, so that the story contains narrative and not just talking heads? Who would be interested in reading this story, and why?
I will publish a class list, and waitlist, by August 15.
Cynthia Gorney joined the faculty in 1999, after a career at The Washington Post that included serving as an award-winning national features writer, South American bureau chief and the first writer for the Post’s Style section based on the West Coast. She is the author of “Articles of Faith: A History of the Abortion Wars,” and has written for many magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and the American Journalism Review. She is currently a New Yorker staff writer. Gorney is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
J250 : Investigative Reporting
Instructor: Tim Reiterman
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 8-9:30 MW
CCN: 48129 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/AThis two-semester course emphasizes the development, reporting, writing and illustration of in-depth projects through a combination of lectures, discussions, workshops and field reporting. Each year, students select and develop their own ideas for investigations. Operating in small teams, the class tackles the most promising and ambitious subjects with the goal of producing publishable articles while honing an array of investigative reporting skills, including documents and sources reporting, development of reporting strategies, the organizing and writing of complex topics, and navigating legal and ethical issues. The reporters also will learn how to write an effective project proposal that envisions not only the shape of the story but ways to effectively present it in print and online with visuals, graphics and sound. These techniques are invaluable not only for in-depth projects of all journalistic genres but also for beat reporting of all types.
The class, taught by longtime Los Angeles Times journalist Tim Reiterman, has produced more than two dozen articles that have appeared in major California newspaper and magazine publications over the past nine years. Reiterman serves as the project supervisor and first line editor in a simulated newsroom setting that provides practical reporting experience in a real world setting. All past projects—including ones on seismic safety in public schools, environmental hazards of former military bases, deficiencies in nursing homes, corruption among immigration consultants and security lapses at a major nuclear laboratory--have been published or are slated to be. Some also have doubled as masters theses. The class meets for 1½ hours at 8 a.m. Monday and Wednesday and performs additional hours of work in the field, with travel as needed.Reiterman, a journalism graduate of bachelors and masters programs at UC Berkeley, has worked as a reporter and editor for more than 35 years. He is the author with the late John Jacobs of Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People—widely recognized as the definitive book on the Jonestown tragedy. He has worked as a reporter for the Associated Press, as an investigative team member and city editor for the San Francisco Examiner, and as a projects editor and reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where he currently covers criminal justice, prisons and state government topics for the Times. As an editor for the paper, he helped supervise Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Los Angeles riots and the Northridge earthquake. And he oversaw a prize-winning 20-month study of homicides in Los Angeles County during the O.J. Simpson murder case, as well as a worldwide investigation of the finances of the International Olympic Committee.
J255 : Law and Ethics
Instructors: Tom Goldstein, Tom Burke
Location: 142/Library NG Time: 9:30-12:30 W
CCN: 48135 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 40An introduction to the legal and ethical conflicts faced by working reporters. Half of the semester will concentrate on First Amendment and media law, including libel and slander, privacy, free press/fair trial conflicts, and civil lawsuits arising from controversial reporting methods. The remainder of the semester will focus on ethical dilemmas faced by reporters and editors. Using case studies, in-class argument, readings and guest lecturers, the course examines some of the murkier conflicts that don?t necessarily make it to court but nevertheless force difficult newsroom decision-making.
Goldstein is a Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications and Director of the Mass Communications Program at Berkeley. He has been a journalism educator for more than 20 years, first at the University of Florida, then at Berkeley (where he served as dean from 1988 to 1996) and finally at Columbia (where he served as dean from 1997 to 2002). Goldstein worked as a reporter at A.P., Newsday, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He served as press secretary to New York City Mayor Edward Koch. Goldstein has written The News at Any Cost, A Two-Faced Press and co-authored The Lawyers Guide to Writing Well. He edited the Killing the Messenger: 100 years of Press Criticism. A native of Buffalo, he is a graduate of Yale and Columbia's law school and journalism school.
Burke is a Northern California practicing attorney with extensive experience in media and First Amendment law.
J260 : Investigative Reporting for Print/TV
Instructors: Rob Gunnison, Lowell Bergman
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 11-1 F
CCN: 48138 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 15A small team of students committed to pursuing careers as investigative reporters will form a special advanced reporting class that will be involved in research and reporting for documentaries on the media industry and the state of the war on terror being produced out of the PBS “Frontline” office at UC Berkeley. Students will also have the opportunity to write feature stories for the accompanying web sites.
Past projects produced by the class include: Al Qaeda's New Front:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/front/
Secret History of the Credit Card:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/
Chasing the Sleeper Cell:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sleeper/
The semester will focus on developing in-depth reporting on government bureaucracies and major corporations through whistleblowers, inside sources and the pursuit of documents. Students will be required to become familiar with the development of investigative reporting in this country and be familiar with at least some of the works of authors like Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, Ferdinand Lundberg, Ovid Demaris, Hank Messick, and others.
The seminar will meet regularly on Fridays at 11 a.m. for an hour and half and at times longer. There will also be additional classes scheduled related to particular areas of expertise including accessing public records; use of the Freedom of Information Act and California Public Records Act; interviewing and organizing research and
reporting.
These additional classes often involve guests who have included officials of the FBI, CIA, the recently retired head of the Department of Justice’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prosecution unit, private investigators, wiretappers [private and police], narcotics agents and investigative reporters from The New York Times and other media outlets. The Center for Investigative Reporting will provide instruction and long-term assistance for student-generated requests under the FOIA and the California Public Records Act.
Students can propose projects for class credit and are encourage to incorporate the class in their master’s projects.
Please send an email by August 25 to Robert Lewis, ril45@hotmail.com, a statement about your commitment to investigative reporting and what you hope to achieve in the class.Restrictions and Prerequisites: Limited to 2nd year students.
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, CA 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.
Mr. Gunnison teaches “Reporting and Writing the News” and has co-taught an investigative reporting class with Professor Bergman for six years.Lowell Bergman was one of the founders of the Center for Investigative Reporting. He spent 22 years as a producer first with ABC News and then CBS, where he was a staff producer at "60 Minutes." Since leaving CBS in 1999, he has been a correspondent and producer for PBS "FRONTLINE" and a reporter for The New York Times. A series he co-authored on worker safety for The New York Times in a joint project with "FRONTLINE" won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. It was the first time a print/television collaboration was recognized by both a Pulitzer and its equivalent in broadcasting, the Peabody and Alfred I. DuPont awards. Bergman's earlier work on the CIA and cocaine, corruption in Mexico and the war on drugs has been the recipient of DuPonts, Peabody Awards and Emmys. His investigation of the tobacco industry for "60 Minutes" was chronicled in the feature film, "The Insider." Bergman graduated from the University of Wisconsin and was a graduate fellow in philosophy at the University of California at San Diego.
J275 : Radio News Reporting
Instructor: Ben Manilla
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 10-1 TH
CCN: 48141 Section: 1 Units: 4 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: 10The course focuses on the basics of radio reporting in the digital era. It is a hands-on, intensive preparation for the real world. Students are required to cover general news stories and produce a weekly half-hour magazine program including a live newscast on deadline. In addition, students create weekly news features many of which have been picked up for commercial and national broadcast. Students rotate between assignments as anchor, reporter and producer. You learn how to build a newscast, write for radio, read for radio, and how to use digital technology to produce audio that engages the listener.
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, 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 fifteen 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.
J282 : Introduction to TV News
Instructors: Karen Everett, Steve Cheng, Joan Bieder
Location: 101 North Gate Time: 4-6 W, 10-12 F
CCN: 48114 Section: 1 Units: 4 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: N/AJ282 is the introductory television production course where students learn digital shooting, Avid editing, lighting and sound as wells as basic writing, interviewing and team work skills for television. At the end of the semester students produce a half-hour television news program in the J-school studio. The program is cablecast in Berkeley and by satellite through UCTV.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: Reporting and Producing for Television: J282 and J283 comprise a fall and spring sequence that is required for incoming students who elect to concentrate in television news, magazine and documentary. A few spots are reserved for second year students.
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”.
Steve Cheng worked in network television news for twenty eight years, first with ABC News in Washington, D.C. and New York, then, until 2006, as a producer with Dateline NBC. He was also a producer on Bill Moyers’ PBS documentary on Chinese American history. He is a graduate of Yale University.
Joan Bieder worked for a decade as a television news producer at ABC News. Before coming to Berkeley, she taught print and broadcast journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Bieder has produced a series of videos on broadcast journalism, a film on female journalists in Asia and a video on the history of the Jews of Singapore. Her research has focused on freedom-of-the-press issues in Singapore, where she has spent several summers working as a consultant to the news staff of Singapore Television. Bieder is writing a book on the history of the Jews of Singapore and Southeast Asia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Goucher College.
J284 : Documentary Production
Instructor: Jon Else
Location: 101 North Gate Time: 2-6 T
CCN: 48147 Section: 1 Units: 4 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: 12An intensive documentary workshop in which second year students develop and produce their Masters projects. We work with the styles of writing, shooting, lighting, sound, editing, and production management unique to documentary. Guest filmmakers will conduct special sessions on various production skills including lighting, shooting, sound recording, and archival research. During the 2006 spring semester the class will continue to meet weekly (under the course title J284B, with Jon Else) for work-in-progress screenings and advanced practical workshops. Attendance at all class meetings and technical sessions is mandatory, with the exception that students may miss one class meeting per semester.
Occassional meetings W 12-1.Restrictions and Prerequisites: By instructor permission only.
Jon Else produced and directed the documentaries “The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb,” “Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven,” “A Job at Ford’s” part of the PBS series “The Great Depression,” “Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature,” “Sing Faster: The Stagehands’ Ring Cycle,” and “Open Outcry.” He was series producer and cinematographer for “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years.” Else served as cinematographer on documentaries for PBS, BBC, ABC, MTV and HBO, including the BBC/PBS “History of Rock and Roll,” the Paramount/MTV feature documentary “Tupac: Resurrection” and “Afghanistan: Hell of a Nation,” and numerous commercials and music videos. He is directing a feature documentary about nuclear weapons. Else was a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and has won an Academy Award, four National Emmys, several Alfred I. DuPont and Peabody awards, the Prix Italia, the Sundance Special Jury Prize and Sundance Filmmaker’s Trophy. Else received his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley and his master’s degree in communication from Stanford University.
J285 : Longform Television
Instructors: Steve Cheng, Joan Bieder
Location: 101 North Gate Time: 10-1 T
CCN: 48150 Section: 1 Units: 4 Fee: Y Enrollment Limit: N/AJ285 is a second year course in which students produce 5 to 10 minute non-fiction television magazine stories and create television magazine programs. In producing long form stories and magazine programs students develop their digital story telling skills by identifying compelling central characters and their interesting and newsworthy stories, connecting them to larger issues or common personal experiences, and experimenting with innovative styles and techniques. The two-semester course and final programs satisfy the Masters Project requirement.
Occasional Meetings Wed. 12-1Restrictions and Prerequisites: J-School students only.
Successful completion of J282 and J283, proficiency in AVID editing and SONY DV cam, and permission of instructors.Steve Cheng worked in network television news for twenty eight years, first with ABC News in Washington, D.C. and New York, then, until 2006, as a producer with Dateline NBC. He was also a producer on Bill Moyers’ PBS documentary on Chinese American history. He is a graduate of Yale University.
Joan Bieder worked for a decade as a television news producer at ABC News. Before coming to Berkeley, she taught print and broadcast journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Bieder has produced a series of videos on broadcast journalism, a film on female journalists in Asia and a video on the history of the Jews of Singapore. Her research has focused on freedom-of-the-press issues in Singapore, where she has spent several summers working as a consultant to the news staff of Singapore Television. Bieder is writing a book on the history of the Jews of Singapore and Southeast Asia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Goucher College.
J288 : Digital TV
Instructor: Todd Carrel
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 2-4 TTh
CCN: 48153 Section: 1 Units: 4 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: 6This will be a small class designed for students who have completed the Spring 2008 Digital TV and the World course, or who have equivalent digital TV and editing skills, or who have web design, coding and photography skills. The class offers a chance for students outside the professional TV track to do preliminary work with small format cameras and explore an array of multimedia storytelling techniques and editing styles. Students will learn to listen carefully to the voices of their subjects in the Vietnamese or other diaspora communities in the Bay Area, then create cross-platform reports. Each student will report and produce at least two projects crafted for the washingtonpost.com and other outlets. Experts on ethnic culture and society will be invited to classes as we explore the weave of community and commerce. The course will emphasize solid reporting, clear expression and original storytelling. Students who successfully complete the domestic course will be eligible for an overseas internship with the independent Center for Digital TV and the World.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: Restrictions and Prerequisites: The class enrollment will be limited and all students will be admitted only with consent of instructor. Interested students should contact the instructor immediately for an appointment at: wawawawa@aol.com
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.
J294 : Master's Project Seminar
Instructors: Qiang Xiao, Susan Rasky, Michael Pollan, Ken Light, Neil Henry, Paul Grabowicz, Cynthia Gorney, Jon Else, Mark Danner, Lydia Chavez, Joan Bieder, Lowell Bergman
Location: By appt. Time: By appt.
CCN: See chart Section: 0 Units: 1 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/AJ294 is a 2 semester course (1 unit/Fall, 1 unit/Spring). You must register for both semesters and it must be taken for a grade.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: Limited to Journalism students only.
Xiao Qiang, a Beijing native, is a professional observer and commentator on Chinese Internet, media and politics. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the China Digital Times, an independent China news portal and directs the Berkeley China Internet project. Xiao also studied physics in China and US and has been a long time human rights activist. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, and is profiled in the book "Soul Purpose: 40 People Who Are Changing the World for the Better."
Susan Rasky was the congressional correspondent for The New York Times. A winner of a George Polk Award for National Reporting, she began her career in Washington, D.C., covering economic policy for the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. and later reported for Reuters from Capitol Hill and the White House. Rasky was a columnist and contributing editor for the California Journal as well as a frequent political commentator for the Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee and NPR. She established and supervises the J-School’s California News Service, which gives students experience covering government and politics for news organizations throughout the country. She joined the faculty in 1991. Rasky received her bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley and holds a master’s degree in economic history from the London School of Economics.
Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto." His previous book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World", "A Place of My Own", and "Second Nature". A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, Pollan is the recipient of numerous journalistic awards, including the James Beard Award for best magazine series in 2003 and the Reuters-I.U.C.N. 2000 Global Award for Environmental Journalism. His articles have been anthologized in Best American Science Writing, Best American Essays and the Norton Book of Nature Writing. Pollan served for many years as executive editor of Harper's Magazine and is now the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley.
Light, curator of the Photojournalism Center at the School, is the author of 5 monographs including Texas Death Row.
Neil Henry worked for 16 years as a metro, national and foreign correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya for The Washington Post, and as a staff writer for Newsweek magazine, prior to joining the faculty in 1993. A former John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, he is the author of a 2002 racial history, Pearl's Secret. His second book, American Carnival: Journalism under Siege in an Age of New Media, was published in May, 2007. A graduate in political science from Princeton University, Prof. Henry earned his master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Paul Grabowicz is Director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting, new media publishing and computer assisted reporting.
Cynthia Gorney joined the faculty in 1999, after a career at The Washington Post that included serving as an award-winning national features writer, South American bureau chief and the first writer for the Post’s Style section based on the West Coast. She is the author of “Articles of Faith: A History of the Abortion Wars,” and has written for many magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and the American Journalism Review. She is currently a New Yorker staff writer. Gorney is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
Jon Else produced and directed the documentaries “The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb,” “Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven,” “A Job at Ford’s” part of the PBS series “The Great Depression,” “Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature,” “Sing Faster: The Stagehands’ Ring Cycle,” and “Open Outcry.” He was series producer and cinematographer for “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years.” Else served as cinematographer on documentaries for PBS, BBC, ABC, MTV and HBO, including the BBC/PBS “History of Rock and Roll,” the Paramount/MTV feature documentary “Tupac: Resurrection” and “Afghanistan: Hell of a Nation,” and numerous commercials and music videos. He is directing a feature documentary about nuclear weapons. Else was a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and has won an Academy Award, four National Emmys, several Alfred I. DuPont and Peabody awards, the Prix Italia, the Sundance Special Jury Prize and Sundance Filmmaker’s Trophy. Else received his bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley and his master’s degree in communication from Stanford University.
Mark Danner has written about international affairs, human rights and foreign wars for more than 20 years. He has covered Central America, Haiti, the Balkans and Iraq, among many other stories. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, Danner is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. His work also has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times op-ed page and many other publications, and he has written and helped produce television documentaries for ABC News. Danner is the author of “The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War,” “The Road to Illegitimacy,” and, most recently, “Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror.” He was named as a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and his work has been honored with a National Magazine Award, two Overseas Press Club Awards, and an Emmy, among other awards. Danner is a graduate of Harvard University.
Lydia Chávez started as a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune, later moving on to Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, where she served as El Salvador and South American bureau chief. In 2005, Chávez and her students collaborated to publish “Capitalism, God and A Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century” (Duke University Press). And in 1998, Chávez published, “The Color Bind: California’s Battle Against Affirmative Action,” which won the Leonard Silk Award (UC Press). She has also written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Examiner and magazine pieces for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazines and George Magazine. She holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Joan Bieder worked for a decade as a television news producer at ABC News. Before coming to Berkeley, she taught print and broadcast journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Bieder has produced a series of videos on broadcast journalism, a film on female journalists in Asia and a video on the history of the Jews of Singapore. Her research has focused on freedom-of-the-press issues in Singapore, where she has spent several summers working as a consultant to the news staff of Singapore Television. Bieder is writing a book on the history of the Jews of Singapore and Southeast Asia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Goucher College.
Lowell Bergman was one of the founders of the Center for Investigative Reporting. He spent 22 years as a producer first with ABC News and then CBS, where he was a staff producer at "60 Minutes." Since leaving CBS in 1999, he has been a correspondent and producer for PBS "FRONTLINE" and a reporter for The New York Times. A series he co-authored on worker safety for The New York Times in a joint project with "FRONTLINE" won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. It was the first time a print/television collaboration was recognized by both a Pulitzer and its equivalent in broadcasting, the Peabody and Alfred I. DuPont awards. Bergman's earlier work on the CIA and cocaine, corruption in Mexico and the war on drugs has been the recipient of DuPonts, Peabody Awards and Emmys. His investigation of the tobacco industry for "60 Minutes" was chronicled in the feature film, "The Insider." Bergman graduated from the University of Wisconsin and was a graduate fellow in philosophy at the University of California at San Diego.
J297 : Internship Credit
Instructor: Rob Gunnison
Location: TBD Time: TBD
CCN: 48198 Section: 1 Units: 2 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/AStudents receive one or two units of credit for the internships. Documentation required from both the student and from supervisor regarding internship responsibilities, hours, etc.
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, CA 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.
Mr. Gunnison teaches “Reporting and Writing the News” and has co-taught an investigative reporting class with Professor Bergman for six years.
J298 : Key Issues with Faculty and Campus Experts
Instructors: Susan Rasky, Lydia Chavez
Location: 142/Library NG Time: 12-2 F
CCN: 48207 Section: 3 Units: 2 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/ACalifornia - The Social Anthropology and Geography of the nation's most populous state.
Economics--A basic backgrounder in macro economics that will help us understand the current recession and related economic issues, including oil prices, globalization, food shortages, and how the credit crunch affects governments.
The International Landscape - Hot spots, bright spots and challenges for the United States and the international community.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: Required for first year students, second year students are welcome to enroll.
Susan Rasky was the congressional correspondent for The New York Times. A winner of a George Polk Award for National Reporting, she began her career in Washington, D.C., covering economic policy for the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. and later reported for Reuters from Capitol Hill and the White House. Rasky was a columnist and contributing editor for the California Journal as well as a frequent political commentator for the Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee and NPR. She established and supervises the J-School’s California News Service, which gives students experience covering government and politics for news organizations throughout the country. She joined the faculty in 1991. Rasky received her bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley and holds a master’s degree in economic history from the London School of Economics.
Lydia Chávez started as a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune, later moving on to Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, where she served as El Salvador and South American bureau chief. In 2005, Chávez and her students collaborated to publish “Capitalism, God and A Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century” (Duke University Press). And in 1998, Chávez published, “The Color Bind: California’s Battle Against Affirmative Action,” which won the Leonard Silk Award (UC Press). She has also written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Examiner and magazine pieces for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazines and George Magazine. She holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
J298 : Oakland 7th Street Video Game
Instructor: Paul Grabowicz
Location: 106/Upper NG Time: 2-4 W
CCN: 48204 Section: 2 Units: 2 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/AThis class is using a video game program to recreate and tell the story of the blues and jazz club scene on Oakland's 7th Street during its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s - a remarkable part of the city's history of which almost no trace remains today. A six-block stretch of 7th Street is being recreated as a virtual world, which people can access over the Internet and then adopt avatar figures to walk up and down the streets, enter the clubs, listen to the music of the era and interact with historic characters and other people logged onto the site.
The class is a collaboration with the UC Berkeley Architecture School, which developed the video game technology being used in the project.
Students in the journalism class report and research the stories of the clubs and other establishments on 7th Street, the musicians and other characters who frequented the scene, the music played in the clubs, and the ill-conceived redevelopment projects that led to the demise of the area. Journalism students also write interactive narratives to tell the story of the clubs and the history of the area in a video game.Restrictions and Prerequisites: No technical skills are needed for the class, as the video game modeling and programming is done by Architecture students. Students interested in Oakland, the history of the African-American community, jazz and blues music, or urban reporting should take this class.
Paul Grabowicz is Director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting, new media publishing and computer assisted reporting.
J298 : Participatory Media/Collective Action
Instructor: Qiang Xiao
Location: 202 South Hall Time: 9-12 F
CCN: 48201 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/AThree hours of seminar discussion and hands-on practice per week. This participatory class explores political activism in the Net context, as well as key aspects such as mass media, political communications, and smart mobs: emerging forms of technology-enabled collective actions. We will read and discuss issues, theories and real world examples from the US, Philippines, Korea, Mexico, China, and elsewhere. We will focus on blogging, online forums and other emerging media forms such as podcasting, photo-sharing, tagging, RSS, wiki-based communities and read about theoretical aspects of socio-technological networks as well.
In addition to analytic readings, students will learn how to use a wiki for collaborative work, to blog and read and comment on blogs via RSS as part of the coursework, to listen to and produce podcasts. The class will directly engage in collective knowledge-gathering and construction of a public good. Students will engage in social bookmarking and collectively construct a resource wiki on class topics.Xiao Qiang, a Beijing native, is a professional observer and commentator on Chinese Internet, media and politics. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the China Digital Times, an independent China news portal and directs the Berkeley China Internet project. Xiao also studied physics in China and US and has been a long time human rights activist. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, and is profiled in the book "Soul Purpose: 40 People Who Are Changing the World for the Better."
J298 : Writing for Magazines
Instructor: Deirdre English
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 2-5 T
CCN: 48210 Section: 4 Units: 3 Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/ADescription forthcoming
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 directed the editing workshops program since 1988.
J601 : Master's Study
Instructor: Rob Gunnison
Location: Time: N/A
CCN: 48255 Section: 1 Units: var Fee: N Enrollment Limit: N/AIndividual preparation or study, in consultation with a faculty advisor. Study ultimately leads to the completion of the Master's Project. Units many not be used to meet either unit or residence requirements for the master's degree.
Restrictions and Prerequisites: Course is restricted to journalism students.
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, CA 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.
Mr. Gunnison teaches “Reporting and Writing the News” and has co-taught an investigative reporting class with Professor Bergman for six years.