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J219 : MINI: Advanced Flash (6 weeks)
Instructors:
Location: 106/Upper NG Time: 2-5 W
CCN: 48096 Section: 3 Units: 1 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 24
Class Meetings: Nov 4, 11, 18, 25 Dec 2, 9 This is a six-session class on advanced Flash techniques. Students will learn the complexities of Flash including: drawing graphics, tweening animations, writing ActionScript code, working with dynamic text, formatting the timeline, using components, integrating video and sound, creating interactivity and finally publishing the project to the Web. Flash is a very complex program, and takes lots of patience and determination. While this class will cover advanced techniques and programming code, only basic knowledge of Flash is required coming into the class. However, students should feel comfortable with prospect of learning to writing code similar to pre-algebra. There will be no outside projects required for this class, and only one assignment will be given after the third session which is based on tutorial material. This class has a very tight curriculum, and students will not be given time to work on personal projects during class time. This class, however, is designed to equip students with the skills necessary to create an interactive multimedia feature on their own.Restrictions and Prerequisites: As a prerequisite, students must have taken the the required multi-media boot camps. This class is for one unit of credit and is graded pass-fail. ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY for every session - no exceptions. If you cannot make one of the sessions, please do not enroll in this class. Auditors will be considered only after the enrollment period, and will be based on the number of additional seats available.
About the Instructors:
J200 : Reporting the News - Gorney/Platoni
Instructors: Cynthia Gorney, Kara Platoni
Location: Other Time: 9-11 WTH
CCN: 48039 Section: 2 Units: 6 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 17
This 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.
About the Instructors:
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.
Kara Platoni was a staff writer for the East Bay Express for eight years, and is now Senior Editor at Terrain, a Berkeley-based environmental quarterly. She is also a freelance science writer whose work has appeared in Smithsonian, Popular Science, Air & Space, and other magazines. This fall she's co-teaching J200 with Cynthia Gorney and their class is producing the hyperlocal news site OaklandNorth.net. More information and favorite stories at KaraPlatoni.com.
J200 : Reporting the News - Chavez/Chakarova
Instructors: Lydia Chavez, Mimi Chakarova
Location: Other Time: 9-11 am M, 7-9pm Th
CCN: 48036 Section: 1 Units: 6 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 17
This 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.
About the Instructors:
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.
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. In 2007, Chakarova became the series curator of FRONTLINE/World's FlashPoint, featuring the work of established and emerging photographers from around the world. In 2008, Chakarova's work on sex trafficking was awarded a People's Voice Webby. She was also a 2008 nominee for a News & Documentary Emmy Award.
J211 : Reporting the news-lab--Chavez/Chakarova
Instructors: Lydia Chavez, Mimi Chakarova
Location: Other Time: 9-6 T
CCN: 48054 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: Yes Enrollment Limit: 12
Lab Component for J200.Restrictions and Prerequisites: This course is only for first year students in J200.
About the Instructors:
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.
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. In 2007, Chakarova became the series curator of FRONTLINE/World's FlashPoint, featuring the work of established and emerging photographers from around the world. In 2008, Chakarova's work on sex trafficking was awarded a People's Voice Webby. She was also a 2008 nominee for a News & Documentary Emmy Award.
J200 : Reporting the News - Drummond/Snow/Griffin
Instructors: Bill Drummond, Katherine Griffin, Kat Snow
Location: Other Time: 7:00-9:00 TW, 7:00-8:30 Th
CCN: 48042 Section: 3 Units: 6 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 17
This 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.
About the Instructors:
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.
Katherine Griffin (MJ 88) is managing editor of Yoga Journal magazine. She‚s held senior editorial positions at Health magazine (a four-time National Magazine Award-winning monthly) and WebMD and was a staff writer at Health for eight years. She‚s written for the Los Angeles Times, Real Simple, Islands, Reader's Digest, the Sacramento Bee, the Contra Costa Times, Family Therapy Networker, and the East Bay Express, among other publications. She has taught journalism at San Francisco State University; in 2002 she was a science journalism fellow at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.
A 20-year veteran of public radio, Kat has worked as a reporter, talk show host, newscaster, news director and editor at stations from Astoria, Oregon to San Francisco. In the early days, Kat toted a remote antenna around town to host live broadcasts of concerts or protests; now she focuses on writing and editing for radio or online. Most recently she worked as News Editor at KQED, editing stories for newscasts and The California Report. Her reporting and editing have won numerous regional and national awards.
J211 : Reporting the news-lab--Drummond/Snow/Griffin
Instructors: Bill Drummond, Katherine Griffin, Kat Snow
Location: 108/Lower NG Time: 8:30-5 Th
CCN: 48060 Section: 3 Units: 3 Fee: Yes Enrollment Limit: 17
Lab Component for J200.Restrictions and Prerequisites: This course is for first year students in J200 only.
About the Instructors:
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.
Katherine Griffin (MJ 88) is managing editor of Yoga Journal magazine. She‚s held senior editorial positions at Health magazine (a four-time National Magazine Award-winning monthly) and WebMD and was a staff writer at Health for eight years. She‚s written for the Los Angeles Times, Real Simple, Islands, Reader's Digest, the Sacramento Bee, the Contra Costa Times, Family Therapy Networker, and the East Bay Express, among other publications. She has taught journalism at San Francisco State University; in 2002 she was a science journalism fellow at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.
A 20-year veteran of public radio, Kat has worked as a reporter, talk show host, newscaster, news director and editor at stations from Astoria, Oregon to San Francisco. In the early days, Kat toted a remote antenna around town to host live broadcasts of concerts or protests; now she focuses on writing and editing for radio or online. Most recently she worked as News Editor at KQED, editing stories for newscasts and The California Report. Her reporting and editing have won numerous regional and national awards.
J211 : Reporting the news-lab--Gorney
Instructors: Cynthia Gorney
Location: 108/Lower NG Time: 9-6 M
CCN: 48057 Section: 2 Units: 3 Fee: Yes Enrollment Limit: 17
Lab Component for J200.Restrictions and Prerequisites: This course is for first year students in J200 only.
About the Instructor:
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.
J215 : Multimedia Boot camp-sec.1
Instructors: Paul Grabowicz, Jeremy Rue, Richard Hernandez, Jerry Monti, Josh Williams
Location: 106/Upper NG Time: 8/24-8/28 M-F 9am-9pm
CCN: 48078 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: Yes Enrollment Limit: 17
Formerly 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.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructors:
Paul Grabowicz is Director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting and new media publishing.
Jeremy Rue is a multimedia training instructor for the Knight Digital Media Center located at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. He teaches Flash and other programs for a series of week-long multimedia training workshops for professional working journalists through a program funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Richard Koci-Hernandez worked as a photographer at the San Jose Mercury News for 15 years. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times and international magazines, including Stern. In 2003, Richard was the recipient of the James K. Batten Knight Ridder Excellence Award. His work for the Mercury News has earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations. His photography and multimedia work has won numerous awards on the national and regional level, including two Emmy nominations. Richard was named deputy director of photography and multimedia after spearheading the creation of MercuryNewsPhoto.com. He has taught multimedia workshops for Stanford University, National Press Photographers Association, The Southern Short Course, National Association for Hispanic Journalists and National Association for Black Journalists. He has lectured at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Stanford University. Koci-Hernandez is a San Francisco State University journalism graduate, where he has been a guest instructor.
Jerry Monti is technology training instructor at the J-School's Knight Digital Media Center.
Josh Williams, formerly new media projects editor at the Las Vegas Sun, is a Multimedia Teaching Fellow at the J-School, where he is involved in the school's News21 project and Knight Digital Media Center. He managed the launch of the Sun's new website in 2008, which won awards from the Online News Association for general excellence and from Editor & Publisher for best overall newspaper affiliated site. Prior to that, Josh was a multimedia exhibit developer at the Smithsonian Institution for three years. He has a master's degree in interactive journalism from American University and a bachelor's degree in multimedia journalism from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
J215 : Multimedia Boot camp-sec.2
Instructors: Paul Grabowicz, Jeremy Rue, Richard Hernandez, Jerry Monti, Josh Williams
Location: 106/Upper NG Time: 8-31-9/4, M-F, 9am-9pm
CCN: 48081 Section: 2 Units: 3 Fee: Yes Enrollment Limit: 17
Formerly 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.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructors:
Paul Grabowicz is Director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting and new media publishing.
Jeremy Rue is a multimedia training instructor for the Knight Digital Media Center located at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. He teaches Flash and other programs for a series of week-long multimedia training workshops for professional working journalists through a program funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Richard Koci-Hernandez worked as a photographer at the San Jose Mercury News for 15 years. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times and international magazines, including Stern. In 2003, Richard was the recipient of the James K. Batten Knight Ridder Excellence Award. His work for the Mercury News has earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations. His photography and multimedia work has won numerous awards on the national and regional level, including two Emmy nominations. Richard was named deputy director of photography and multimedia after spearheading the creation of MercuryNewsPhoto.com. He has taught multimedia workshops for Stanford University, National Press Photographers Association, The Southern Short Course, National Association for Hispanic Journalists and National Association for Black Journalists. He has lectured at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Stanford University. Koci-Hernandez is a San Francisco State University journalism graduate, where he has been a guest instructor.
Jerry Monti is technology training instructor at the J-School's Knight Digital Media Center.
Josh Williams, formerly new media projects editor at the Las Vegas Sun, is a Multimedia Teaching Fellow at the J-School, where he is involved in the school's News21 project and Knight Digital Media Center. He managed the launch of the Sun's new website in 2008, which won awards from the Online News Association for general excellence and from Editor & Publisher for best overall newspaper affiliated site. Prior to that, Josh was a multimedia exhibit developer at the Smithsonian Institution for three years. He has a master's degree in interactive journalism from American University and a bachelor's degree in multimedia journalism from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
J215 : Multimedia Boot camp-sec.3
Instructors: Paul Grabowicz, Jeremy Rue, Richard Hernandez, Jerry Monti, Josh Williams
Location: 106/Upper NG Time: 9/7-9/11, M-F, 9am-9pm
CCN: 48084 Section: 3 Units: 3 Fee: Yes Enrollment Limit: 17
Formerly 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.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructors:
Paul Grabowicz is Director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting and new media publishing.
Jeremy Rue is a multimedia training instructor for the Knight Digital Media Center located at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. He teaches Flash and other programs for a series of week-long multimedia training workshops for professional working journalists through a program funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Richard Koci-Hernandez worked as a photographer at the San Jose Mercury News for 15 years. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times and international magazines, including Stern. In 2003, Richard was the recipient of the James K. Batten Knight Ridder Excellence Award. His work for the Mercury News has earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations. His photography and multimedia work has won numerous awards on the national and regional level, including two Emmy nominations. Richard was named deputy director of photography and multimedia after spearheading the creation of MercuryNewsPhoto.com. He has taught multimedia workshops for Stanford University, National Press Photographers Association, The Southern Short Course, National Association for Hispanic Journalists and National Association for Black Journalists. He has lectured at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Stanford University. Koci-Hernandez is a San Francisco State University journalism graduate, where he has been a guest instructor.
Jerry Monti is technology training instructor at the J-School's Knight Digital Media Center.
Josh Williams, formerly new media projects editor at the Las Vegas Sun, is a Multimedia Teaching Fellow at the J-School, where he is involved in the school's News21 project and Knight Digital Media Center. He managed the launch of the Sun's new website in 2008, which won awards from the Online News Association for general excellence and from Editor & Publisher for best overall newspaper affiliated site. Prior to that, Josh was a multimedia exhibit developer at the Smithsonian Institution for three years. He has a master's degree in interactive journalism from American University and a bachelor's degree in multimedia journalism from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
J210 : News Photography
Instructors: Ken Light
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 3-5 M
CCN: 48051 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: Yes Enrollment Limit: 15
An 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.
About the Instructor:
Light, curator of the Photojournalism Center at the School, is the author of 5 monographs including Texas Death Row.
J213 : Visual Storytelling: Advanced Documentary Projects-Blurb Book Photo Project
Instructors: Ken Light, Mimi Chakarova
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 12-2 M
CCN: 48072 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: Yes Enrollment Limit: 12
You 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.
About the Instructors:
Light, curator of the Photojournalism Center at the School, is the author of 5 monographs including Texas Death Row.
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. In 2007, Chakarova became the series curator of FRONTLINE/World's FlashPoint, featuring the work of established and emerging photographers from around the world. In 2008, Chakarova's work on sex trafficking was awarded a People's Voice Webby. She was also a 2008 nominee for a News & Documentary Emmy Award.
J219 : MINI: Web Development: HTML/CSS/PHP (6 weeks)
Instructors: Scot Hacker, Paul Grabowicz
Location: 106/Upper NG Time: 2-5 W
CCN: 48093 Section: 2 Units: 1 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
Class Dates: Sep 16, 23, 30, Oct 7, 14, 21 HTML and CSS are the "glue" that holds the web together, and are foundational skills for all web-related jobs. In this code-centric class, students will learn hands-on web development, focusing on standards-compliant HTML and cascading stylesheets (CSS). Students will also learn a bit about how web servers work, how HTTP and FTP work, how media is served, how database-driven web sites work, and more. In the final weeks of class, students will set up a WordPress test installation and apply their new skills to a dynamic, database-driven web site (final sessions will also cover some PHP). As a final project, students will develop a personal resume or portfolio site.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructors:
Scot Hacker is the Webmaster at the school of Journalism and the author of O'Reilly's "MP3: The Definitive Guide," as well as Peachpit's "The BeOS Bible." He is the author of dozens of technology articles for PC Magazine, Byte, MacWorld, and ZiffNet. Hacker also runs an independent web hosting and consulting business.
Paul Grabowicz is Director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting and new media publishing.
J219 : MINI: Advanced Video for the Web (7 weeks)
Instructors: Marilyn Pittman, Samantha Grant
Location: 108/Lower NG Time: 10-1 T
CCN: 48090 Section: 1 Units: 1 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
Class begins 9/22 and runs for seven weeks. Class dates: 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3 and 11/17 In this day and age, everyone (including print and radio reporters) is expected to be capable of crafting complementary video web elements to support their online work. This 7 week, hands-on MINI course will give students the video production skill sets they will need to survive in today's changing journalism marketplace. We will cover the basics of producing, shooting, and editing professional Video Journalist (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 complementary video story. Each student will produce either one short (2-4 min) video piece to complement their reporting on a longer format print or radio story or one standalone video report suitable for online publication. Attendance at every one of the 7 classes is required.Restrictions and Prerequisites: This class must be taken pass/not pass. Basic knowledge of Final Cut Pro strongly recommended.
About the Instructors:
33 years in broadcasting as a talk show host, news anchor, announcer, engineer, producer, writer, commentator. 20 years as a broadcast educator and consultant, coaching talent for NPR, PRI and public radio stations, training community radio station hosts. Teaching performance modules in radio and new media classes and for the Knight Digital Media Center for more than a decade. Stand-up comic, documentary narrator, also.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 : Videography
Instructors: Jon Else
Location: 142/Library NG Time: 7-9 M
CCN: 48099 Section: 4 Units: 1 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: None
Description Forthcoming.Restrictions and Prerequisites: This course is for Second Year TV/Doc Students only. Other students contact Jon Else.
About the Instructor:
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: Jon Else, Karen Everett, Kean Sakata
Location: See Course Description Time: 11:30-1 M
CCN: 48101 Section: 5 Units: 1 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: None
J 219 Picture and Sound focuses on advanced production (camera, sound and editing) techniques that will raise Television and Documentary Masters Projects to professional standards. First class will meet 8/31 in TV Lab NGH 101 after that meet in UNR 106.Restrictions and Prerequisites: This course is required for second year students enrolled in J284 Documentary production) and J285 Longform TV production. The prerequisites are J 282 and J 283 and permission of the instructors.
About the Instructors:
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.
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”.forthcoming
J226 : Following the Food Chain
Instructors: Michael Pollan
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 3-6 M
CCN: 48102 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
It 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: Registration will be by waitlist only. Register by May 1st to be considered for enrollment. You will be contacted by the faculty after that date with enrollment information.
About the Instructor:
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.
J226 : Narrative Science Journalism
Instructors: Michael Pollan
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 3-6 T
CCN: 48105 Section: 2 Units: 3 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
The focus of the course will be on making the transition from writing for newspapers to magazines, with particular attention to scientific subjects. What's the difference between a subject and a story? When is the first-person appropriate? What is the role of the editor and publication in shaping your story? The arc of the course will trace the process of writing a single long piece involving science reporting: finding and pitching story ideas; reporting in depth and at length; outlining and structuring your story; choosing a narrative voice and strategy, crafting leads and "overtures," and making transitions between your story and its larger contexts. As a group, we'll also work as editors on one another's ideas and pieces. And since reading good prose is the best way to learn to write it, we'll be closely reading a substantial piece of science journalism each week. This workshop is designed especially for second years embarking on a written master's project; students will be expected to complete a first draft of a magazine-length piece by the end of the term.Restrictions and Prerequisites: Registration will be by waitlist only. Register by May 1st to be considered for enrollment. You will be contacted by the faculty after that date with enrollment information.
About the Instructor:
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.
J230 : Covering the Biotech Revolution (or Genes for Generalists)
Instructors:
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 2-5 Th
CCN: 48111 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
Biology is big business. In the 21st century, medicines aren't just chemicals cooked up in test tubes. Today's treatments emerge from living cells that are engineered to correct the basic causes of illness: glitches in our genes, faulty cells and proteins, or immune defenses gone haywire. Probing the human cell to find the roots of disease is enabling scientists to design compounds that fix these problems with human proteins or curb rogue cells that turn cancerous. Such designer compounds, sometimes called smart drugs or targeted treatments, now fight disorders from anemia to arthritis, cystic fibrosis to cancer, and diabetes to heart disease. The new industry spawned by this revolution is known as biotechnology. Born in the Bay Area, the industry's products help patients live longer, better lives. Companies in the industry employ thousands of workers, sell billions of dollars in products, and market shares to public stockholders with a taste for high-risk, high-reward investments. Biotech companies invest billions to search for cures and preventive vaccines against malaria, HIV/AIDS and pandemic influenza. One pioneering company "“ Genentech Inc. of South San Francisco "“ rocketed from its birth as a public company in 1980 to become the country's largest seller of cancer treatments and a takeover target of Swiss drug giant Roche, ending in a $95-a-share or $47 billion buyout in March 2009. The trade group, BIO, counts over 1,200 member companies in 30 countries. Reporting the business of biotechnology is a big part of covering the future of healthcare "“ something that touches everyone. You don't have to be a scientist or an economist to cover this business. Students can develop skills to separate the substance from marketing hype, and write about issues such as: management challenges, who's winning the race to market blockbuster products, who's making and losing money, who's got the edge in research and development of new products, marketing and pricing controversies, drug side effects, and risks and benefits of new-generation medicines. The class will help graduate students cover the business in a smart and skeptical way. We'll discuss, report and write about: the founding of companies from venture capital seed money to initial public offering; making of new medicines from lab bench to bedside; proving benefits in clinical trials and why that's important; how to read a scientific study and ask the right questions; regulation of biologic drugs and the role of the Food and Drug Administration in approving products for patients, pricing of new drugs that can top $100,000 a year and how budget-busting products are helping push the debate for healthcare reform. Being in the Bay Area will give our class opportunities to interview the scientists, drug developers, investors and corporate managers at the heart of the biotechnology business. I'll assemble panel discussions to let students interview key industry players. Visiting companies that create drugs from living cells will give them a concrete sense of the sights, sounds and smells that make biotech uniquely fascinating. We can visit a stem cell laboratory at UCSF's Mission Bay complex. Talking with corporate public information officers will bring students into contact with the PR machines they'll deal with as working journalists. Visiting with physicians and patient activists and advocates will round out their views of the industry and the people it serves. Tapping my source list built over more than 20 years covering biotechnology and health sciences will give students a multidimensional view of not just the buying and selling of stock, but the fundamentals of the business. We can delve into bioethics issues surrounding stem cells by visiting laboratories where basic science is done, and by looking into companies like Geron, now preparing clinical trials that will test the versatile cells as a treatment for spinal cord injury like that suffered by cinema's "Superman," Christopher Reeve. Using biotechnology as a canvas, we'll hone fundamental newsgathering, writing and peer editing skills, in class and out. Among the skills students can develop and adapt to any business beat will be: how to read (and find the news in) corporate websites, annual reports and Securities and Exchange filings; how to cover developments like corporate earnings reports, new product launches, and mergers and acquisitions. They'll be using and understanding securities analysts' reports and teleconferences. They'll be refining research and interviewing techniques, including how to engage aggressively and professionally with public relations professionals who write -- and spin -- corporate news. They'll develop analytic rigor, and find the human drama at the heart of the best business reporting. By the course's end, students will produce spot news stories of 250-400 words on deadline in class; mid-length news stories of 500-800-words; and long form features of 1,000-1,200 words as a final project. Students will learn "“ paraphrasing Genentech founder Bob Swanson "“ to tell "the sizzle from the steak." As an instructor, I'll work to convey my conviction that their readers and listeners will include investors, physicians and patients whose lives and fortunes depend on their stories.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructors:
J234 : International Reporting: Africa, Women & Agriculture-The Global Food Crisis
Instructors: Neil Henry, David Tuller, Cassandra Herrman, Martha Saavedra
Location: 142/Library NG Time: 9:30-11:00 TTh
CCN: 48114 Section: 1 Units: 4 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
Description Forthcoming.Restrictions and Prerequisites: Application Required. Details to follow by email.
About the Instructors:
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.
David Tuller was a reporter and editor for ten years at the San Francisco Chronicle. He served as health editor at Salon.com and frequently writes health stories for the New York Times. He received his masters in public health at Berkeley in 2005. Cassandra Herrman is a documentary filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. She recently co-directed and photographed “Tulia, Texas”, the story of a small town struggling with the aftermath of a controversial drug sting. “Tulia, Texas” broadcast on the PBS series INDEPENDENT LENS in 2009. For PBS’ FRONTLINE/World, she has produced and filmed numerous documentaries, including stories about human rights in Zimbabwe; female runners in Kenya; and the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, nominated for a 2006 National Emmy Award. Cassandra received her master’s degree from U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2001.Martha Saavedra is the Associate Director of the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. Trained as a Political Scientist at UCB, she has taught at St. Mary’s College of California, UC Berkeley and Ohio University. Her research and publications have ranged from agrarian politics, development and ethnic conflict in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan to gender, sport and development in Africa to representations of Africa in Chinese popular culture. She has co-edited a forthcoming volume, China and Africa: Emerging Patterns in Globalisation and Development, and is currently co-editing a special issue of Politque Africaine on the politics of football in Africa. She is also on the editorial boards of Soccer and Society; Sport in Society; and Impumelelo: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Sports in Africa. At the Center, she coordinates the UnderstandingSudan.org and the Horn of Africa curriculum projects, oversees public programs and fellowships, and works closely with the African languages program among other things.
J243 : Tackling the Long Form Story
Instructors: Cynthia Gorney
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 9-12 T
CCN: 48120 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 10
This 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. ****** CCN 48234 1 units J219 Section 006 2. TLF/Reading (2 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. If you're sure you want Reading Only, you do NOT need to answer the questions below--just send me an email explaining you want Reading Only; register for TLF; and if there are too many of you Reading Only folks I'll draw straws. The system will tell you you're signing up for 3 units, but we'll figure out how to fix that.Restrictions and Prerequisites: Registration will be by waitlist only. Send the following to Cynthia Gorney before May 1st if you want to be considered for the TLF class: (If you\'re sure you want TLF--Reading Only, you do NOT need to answer the questions below--just send Cynthia an email by May 1st explaining you want Reading Only; register for TLF; and if there are too many of you Reading Only folks I\'ll draw straws. The system will tell you you\'re signing up for 3 units, but we\'ll figure out how to fix that.) --What\'s 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 the school? Did you attend WAC this spring? --Are you in the doc or TV magazine program? If not, were you hoping to use this class to write your masters project? --Two project ideas. I know this is sort of ridiculous, since it’s now April and you won’t really start work until September. But I need to see whether you’re thinking in terms of story, not just big interest area. If you sat through that first “how to interrogate your story idea†WAC workshop, you need to be able to answer at least three-quarters of questions to your satisfaction. (You don’t have to know who your central characters are yet, for example—but you have to be able to imagine who they might be.) If you didn’t, I recommend you get notes from somebody. Prime questions to ask yourself: Why now? What’s new? What’s the focus? What will actually happen in this story? How might I describe the story, for a budget line or an index page, in a maximum of two sentences? Who would be interested in reading this story, and why? Two more requirements for each idea: 1. The reporting has to be local enough that you can keep going back for more. (No stories based in Japan or Bolivia. 2. You must have either secured access or be nearly sure you’ll be able to. (No proposals for 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, tell me why, and make sure you’ve done enough preliminary reporting to be confident you’ll be able to find such a person around here AND that the person will talk to you. True story: Student came in a few years ago with a good-sounding idea, find a story about the West African community living in Oakland, and tell it through the beauty parlors they own & frequent. But it turned out that because she wasn’t African, she couldn’t get them to open up at all, and she had to switch ideas in late October. No fun. This is not a contest to see who\'s got the best ideas. It\'s an effort to ensure that everybody in the class is ready to get to work in September. And remember, you’re not marrying these ideas. I understand something more compelling may pop up over the summer. Once you’re in enrolled, expect to be in some communication with me during the summer so we can talk about anything new that may emerge, or any prep that’s possible alongside your summer work.
About the Instructor:
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.
J243 : Renegades, Underdogs, Madmen: The Magazine Profile
Instructors: Jennifer Kahn
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 2-5 T
CCN: 48122 Section: 2 Units: 3 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
Profiles are a remarkably versatile form. They can anchor the exploration of a novel world (the kingpin behind the spam email business), illuminate the dark side of human behavior (the prison psychologist who devised the Army's torture guidelines), or act as a gateway into an epic drama (the drug war in Mexico framed through the life of a professional hostage negotiator). They're also marketable "“ magazine editors love them "“ and unusually fun. At its purest, a good profile often becomes a kind of detective story: the investigation of another person's hidden, and potentially contradictory, internal world. Reporting from this world can be an adventure, with challenges that vary depending on whether the subject is a celebrity (movie star, athlete, politician) or a "regular" person. Because profiles don't always have an obvious plot, they also require a different strategy in order to build interest and sustain momentum. We'll take a close look at how to do this, starting with the critical choice of who to write about. (As Ira Glass once observed, "It's true that everybody has a story to tell. But most of those stories aren't very interesting.") Connecting to, but remaining independent from, the person you're writing about can also be tricky, both personally and ethically "“ an issue we'll discuss as it relates to your own pieces. Expectations: Readings will be wide-ranging, eccentric, and sometimes funny. All will shed light on how to represent another person with insight and nuance: a skill central to most any long-form story. Writing assignments will begin with a 500-word "test" profile, and finish with a 3000-word story, the subject of which will be vetted through a written and oral pitch to the class. We'll edit this pitch over the semester as the story sharpens, with an eye to magazine submission. We'll also host various guests "“ including writers and editors from the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times Magazine "“ to get the dish on game-changing profiles from the people who wrote them.Restrictions and Prerequisites: Prep: Students should come to the first class with 3-5 reasonable ideas. These can be unresearched, but should be solid enough that you can give a two-sentence summary of the story as you see it. The person involved can be specific or generic – e.g. “an Iraq vet with PTSD†is acceptable as long as it’s part of a more specific idea – but plausibility is key. This means that zero credit will be given for “Osama bin Laden,†and less than zero credit will be given for “Cameron Diaz†– unless you have an in with either or both of them. (If you do have an in with either of them, please contact me immediately.)
About the Instructor:
Jennifer Kahn has been a contributing editor at Wired magazine since 2003, and a feature writer for The New Yorker, National Geographic, Outside, Discover, Mother Jones, and the New York Times, among others. A graduate of Princeton University and UC Berkeley, she has degrees in astrophysics and journalism, and has been a recipient of the CASE-UCLA media fellowship in neuroscience. Her work has been chosen for the Best American Science Writing series four times in the past seven years, most recently for “A Cloud of Smoke,” about a policeman whose death four years after 9/11 was not what it seemed.
J275 : Radio News Reporting
Instructors: Ben Manilla
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 10-1 TH
CCN: 48129 Section: 1 Units: 4 Fee: Yes Enrollment Limit: 12
The 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.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructor:
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.
J255 : Law and Ethics
Instructors: Tom Goldstein
Location: 142/Library NG Time: 9:30-12:30 W
CCN: 48123 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 40
An 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.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructor:
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.
J298 : Key Issues with Faculty and Campus Experts
Instructors: Susan Rasky, Lydia Chavez
Location: 3108 Etcheverry Time: 12-2 F
CCN: 48189 Section: 3 Units: 2 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: None
Class Begins September 18th. The difference between an adequate journalist and a good one is knowing enough to find the powerful stories and knowing how to anchor those stories with more than just quotes from the usual suspects. KEY ISSUES will give you an overview of subjects you'll be covering in one way or another for the rest of your career. With support from the Carnegie Foundation, we've brought together JSchool faculty members, other UC professors and professionals to give you the background you need on local state and federal budgets, economics, health care policy, immigration issues and foreign policy. Each segment will have a set of reading materials and/or videos to view. Those will be posted on the Key Issues website that you'll all have access to in the next week or handed out as readings by the GSR's attached to each J200 section. Attendance is mandatory; students will be asked to sign in for each class. The first class begins September 18, and don't forget that we meet in Room 3108 Etcheverry Hall, the building across the street. Here is a list of lecture topics and speakers. Please contact Lydia Chavez or Susan Rasky if you have any questions. Friday, September the 18 The first session: Nexis Searching, Rob Gunnison, Tom Peele Friday, September25 State and local Budget Basics - Jean Ross, California Budget Project, John Decker, CA State Treasurer's Office. October 2 – Ellen Weiss from NPR - location to be determined October 9 The economy Part 1 Dr, Martha Olney, Econ Dept lecturer, UCB October 16 The economy Part 2 Martha Olney October 23 Heath Care Reform Policy— Prof. Steve Shortell, dean UC Berkeley School of Public Health October 30 Health Care Reform Politics - Measuring and Manipulating Public Opinion - MollyAnn Brodie, Dir. Surveys and Public Opinion Research Kaiser Family Foundation November 6 Immigration Overview - Tyche Hendricks November 13 Foreign policy - Latin America - Spkr tbd November 20 Foreign Policy Pakistan and Afghanistan: Spkr tbd November 27 Thanksgiving NO CLASS December 4: TBDRestrictions and Prerequisites: Required for first year students, second year students are welcome to enroll.
About the 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.
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.
J297 : Internship Credit
Instructors: Robert Gunnison
Location: TBD Time: TBD
CCN: 48183 Section: 1 Units: 2 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 0
Students receive one or two units of credit for the internships. Documentation required from both the student and from supervisor regarding internship responsibilities, hours, etc.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructor:
Rob Gunnison is Director of School Affairs at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. He arrived in 1999 after writing for 15 years for the San Francisco Chronicle in Sacramento, where he covered state government and politics with an emphasis on budget and tax issues. Before that, he was Sacramento Bureau Manager for United Press International where he covered government and politics for 11 years. His reporting on the savings and loan debacle was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. <p /> Mr. Gunnison teaches “Reporting and Writing the News” and has co-taught an investigative reporting class with Professor Bergman for six years.
J282 : Introduction to TV News
Instructors: Joan Bieder, Bob Calo, Karen Everett, Dan Krauss
Location: 101 North Gate Time: 4-6 W, 9:30-11:30 F
CCN: 48132 Section: 1 Units: 4 Fee: Yes Enrollment Limit: None
J282 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.
About the Instructors:
Joan Bieder has made three trips to Israel and the most recent one, this summer, took her to Ramallah and Hebron in the Palestinian territories. The people she met and the places she saw convinced her to develop a seminar on how journalists and others portray the region, its people and its problems. Bieder worked for a decade as a television news producer at ABC News in NYC. Before coming to Berkeley, she taught print and broadcast journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Between 1993 and 2005, she spent several summers working as a television news consultant in Singapore while doing research on a minority community. Her book, The Jews of Singapore, (2007) traces the community’s journey from its ancient Baghdadi roots to the present. She has also 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.
Bob Calo began his career in television at KQED in San Francisco, where he produced daily news and documentaries for the local and national PBS audience. He moved to New York to join ABC News “Primetime Live,” and then to NBC News as a broadcast producer. Calo produced stories throughout the U.S. and foreign countries, including assignments in Pakistan, Chile, Croatia, Kenya, and Somalia. His work has been honored by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, IRE, and National Headliner awards, among others. As an independent producer, he produced a documentary profile of the late landscape historian J.B. Jackson for PBS. Calo joined the faculty in 2001 and continues to write and produce for the national broadcast audience. In 2008, while on leave, he served as National Director of News21. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a master’s in broadcast communication arts from San Francisco State University.
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”.Forthcoming.
J285 : Longform Television
Instructors: Joan Bieder, Bob Calo
Location: 101 North Gate Time: 10-1 T
CCN: 48138 Section: 1 Units: 4 Fee: Yes Enrollment Limit: 0
J285 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.
About the Instructors:
Joan Bieder has made three trips to Israel and the most recent one, this summer, took her to Ramallah and Hebron in the Palestinian territories. The people she met and the places she saw convinced her to develop a seminar on how journalists and others portray the region, its people and its problems. Bieder worked for a decade as a television news producer at ABC News in NYC. Before coming to Berkeley, she taught print and broadcast journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Between 1993 and 2005, she spent several summers working as a television news consultant in Singapore while doing research on a minority community. Her book, The Jews of Singapore, (2007) traces the community’s journey from its ancient Baghdadi roots to the present. She has also 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.
Bob Calo began his career in television at KQED in San Francisco, where he produced daily news and documentaries for the local and national PBS audience. He moved to New York to join ABC News “Primetime Live,” and then to NBC News as a broadcast producer. Calo produced stories throughout the U.S. and foreign countries, including assignments in Pakistan, Chile, Croatia, Kenya, and Somalia. His work has been honored by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, IRE, and National Headliner awards, among others. As an independent producer, he produced a documentary profile of the late landscape historian J.B. Jackson for PBS. Calo joined the faculty in 2001 and continues to write and produce for the national broadcast audience. In 2008, while on leave, he served as National Director of News21. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a master’s in broadcast communication arts from San Francisco State University.
J284 : Documentary Production
Instructors: Jon Else
Location: 101 North Gate Time: 2-6 T
CCN: 48135 Section: 1 Units: 4 Fee: Yes Enrollment Limit: 10
An 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 2010 spring semester the class will continue to meet weekly (under the course title J284, 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.
About the Instructor:
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.
J298 : Africa Reporting Workshop
Instructors: Neil Henry, David Tuller, Cassandra Herrman, Martha Saavedra
Location: 142/Library NG Time: 1-3 Th
CCN: 48188 Section: 2 Units: 3 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: None
This course is an intensive workshop dedicated to the production of new, original, and meaningful journalism about the food crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. Our aim is to place high quality stories in all media formats for distribution in the U.S., international, and African media. We will also produce a multimedia Web site hosted on the School’s Web server providing news, features, resources, and discussions about the Africa project, and food topics, linking participants with audiences, journalists, and researchers around the world. The Africa project will inform the public about many aspects of agriculture, the lives of small land holders, and their roles in the food story on the continent. Most of those land holders are women, and it is expected that women will figure prominently in your coverage. African issues customarily do not generate significant attention in the U.S. media, apart from periodic disaster and war coverage. This reality is especially stark in an era when news organizations are cutting back sharply on resources for foreign reporting in general. Your first challenge over the coming months is this, then: To envision compelling stories about these vital issues that will resonate with the public, for an industry hungry for content. Your second challenge will be to keep a firm eye on the overarching mission of those stories: To inform citizens and decision-makers around the world with meaningful coverage, so that ultimately these endemic problems affecting millions might be more effectively addressed. Our course is a required companion to Martha Saavedra’s background course, J234: Africa Women and Agriculture: The Global Food Crisis. Martha’s course will provide you intensive immersion in many aspects of the food story in Africa, ranging from agricultural economics and political science, to gender and cultural history, with many exceptional visiting speakers. In our course, you will concentrate on the stories you want to cover. You will draw on the expertise of campus and national experts in your research. You will reach out to African journalists and seek collaborations in the countries you wish to report in. You will develop story pitches and work to place your stories in as broad a range of outlets as possible. We also encourage you to pair up on stories to deepen the spirit of cooperation. We will bring in speakers to the class, including deeply accomplished journalists with expertise in Africa and food topics, to assist your training. We will also tackle important themes and questions: How is Africa customarily portrayed in the western media, and why? What editorial biases afflict U.S. coverage? How does the African agricultural experience compare with another developing region, such as India? We will read journalism about Africa, and offer screenings of important broadcasts and documentaries. We will also guide you in your explorations, provide frequent feedback and criticism, help plan your logistics, and edit and sharpen your work once you produce it. You should aim high: We seek the finest of journalism from you for possible outlets as diverse as National Public Radio, the New York Times magazine, Frontline/World, and leading international and African media, to exceptional multimedia projects for distribution on our own sites and others across the Web. Most of all, we hope you take full advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel possibly twice over the coming academic year to an amazing continent rich with stories of immense importance to the public interest.Restrictions and Prerequisites: Registration is limited to students enrolled in J234 Int\'l Travel:Africa
About the Instructors:
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.
David Tuller was a reporter and editor for ten years at the San Francisco Chronicle. He served as health editor at Salon.com and frequently writes health stories for the New York Times. He received his masters in public health at Berkeley in 2005. Cassandra Herrman is a documentary filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. She recently co-directed and photographed “Tulia, Texas”, the story of a small town struggling with the aftermath of a controversial drug sting. “Tulia, Texas” broadcast on the PBS series INDEPENDENT LENS in 2009. For PBS’ FRONTLINE/World, she has produced and filmed numerous documentaries, including stories about human rights in Zimbabwe; female runners in Kenya; and the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, nominated for a 2006 National Emmy Award. Cassandra received her master’s degree from U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2001.Martha Saavedra is the Associate Director of the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. Trained as a Political Scientist at UCB, she has taught at St. Mary’s College of California, UC Berkeley and Ohio University. Her research and publications have ranged from agrarian politics, development and ethnic conflict in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan to gender, sport and development in Africa to representations of Africa in Chinese popular culture. She has co-edited a forthcoming volume, China and Africa: Emerging Patterns in Globalisation and Development, and is currently co-editing a special issue of Politque Africaine on the politics of football in Africa. She is also on the editorial boards of Soccer and Society; Sport in Society; and Impumelelo: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Sports in Africa. At the Center, she coordinates the UnderstandingSudan.org and the Horn of Africa curriculum projects, oversees public programs and fellowships, and works closely with the African languages program among other things.
J260 : Investigative Reporting for Print/TV
Instructors: Robert Gunnison, Lowell Bergman
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 11-1 F
CCN: 48126 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 15
This class is designed to build on students' fundamental reporting and writing skills by learning the basics of investigative reporting. It is journalism that often bridges traditional beats to examine systems and institutions. In this class, you will enhance your interviewing skills, learn the difference between newspaper and television interviews; learn how to set up a two-camera shoot; work with public records; and develop and protect sources. In past years, students have been involved in production of "Frontline" films and Web sites. Past projects produced by the class include work on: "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/ Students will be required to become familiar with the development of investigative reporting and its place in American history. The seminar will meet regularly on Fridays, 11-1, and occasionally at other times to accommodate special guests or lectures. Students can propose projects for class credit and are encourage to incorporate the class in their master's projects.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructors:
Rob Gunnison is Director of School Affairs at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. He arrived in 1999 after writing for 15 years for the San Francisco Chronicle in Sacramento, where he covered state government and politics with an emphasis on budget and tax issues. Before that, he was Sacramento Bureau Manager for United Press International where he covered government and politics for 11 years. His reporting on the savings and loan debacle was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. <p /> Mr. Gunnison teaches “Reporting and Writing the News” and has co-taught an investigative reporting class with Professor Bergman for six years.
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.
J254 : Opinion Writing: The Reported Column
Instructors: Susan Rasky
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 2-5 W
CCN: 48231 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
So you know how to write a news lead, a sassy blog, and maybe even the not-half-bad-top of a feature. Now you need to think about writing with perspective and authority, about how to go one level deeper in a voice very different from the neutral (or snarky) one you've developed so far. This is an advanced reporting course designed to help students sharpen their writing and analytical skills in a format that demands clarity of thought and economy of words. We will begin where all good writing begins, with solid, efficient reporting on a range of social and cultural topics. We'll experiment with voice and style to see how pithy, insightful and profound we can be - about big issues and small ones - in about 400 (for broadcast commentary) to 850 polished words each week. Columnists, editorial writers and OP-Ed page editors and a radio producer will be popping in to critique our offerings. The idea is to develop both a body of work and a base of outlets who like what we have to say. The first assignment is a reported RANT, so come to class all worked up about something.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructor:
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.
J298 : Blogging China
Instructors: Qiang Xiao
Location: 127 North Gate Time: 10-11:30 F
CCN: 48186 Section: 1 Units: 2 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
China is the biggest story of the 21st century. The success or failure of its on-going economic, social and political transition will have a tremendous impact on the world, from stock-exchange markets to food security, from war and peace to climate change. This project-based research seminar is centered around an interactive news website: China Digital Times (CDT). Students will get the opportunity to do hands-on work on CDT, which taps into the vast resources of online news, analysis, and multimedia content about China from a wide spectrum of perspectives and sources. The required tasks include practical solutions to address the issue of censorship in China, particularly in helping CDT to expand its readers within China. The class will also conduct reading/discussion sessions on China's state censorship, online activism and information politics in general. In addition to learning about news aggregation about China, students will also explore innovative use of technology and social media approach to overcome the Great Firewall. This research seminar class is not limited to the graduate students in the Journalism School; students from other departments on campus, including undergraduates are welcome.Restrictions and Prerequisites: Chinese language or previous blogging experience are not required.
About the Instructor:
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."
J219 : Tackling the Long Form Story--Reading Section Only
Instructors: Cynthia Gorney
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 9-12 T
CCN: 48234 Section: 6 Units: 1 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 5
See Tackling the Long Form Story course description for details and registration.Restrictions and Prerequisites: See Tackling the Long Form Story course description for enrollment.
About the Instructor:
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.
J24 : Opinion Writing
Instructors: Susan Rasky
Location: 127 North Gate Time: 12-1 M
CCN: 48003 Section: 1 Units: 1 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
This is a class to help students with journalistic interests sharpen their writing and analytical skills in a format that demands clarity of thought and economy of words. We will begin where all good writing begins, with solid, efficient reporting on a range of social and cultural topics. We'll experiment with voice and style to see how pithy, insightful and profound we can be-about big issues and small ones-in about 400 (for broadcast commentary) to 850 polished words every week or two. Weekly readings and finished opinion pieces will be posted to a student website. Students will be required to submit one 800 word piece to the Berkeley Political Review. Enrollment is limited to twelve freshmen. Students with journalistic interest or background are encouraged to enroll.Restrictions and Prerequisites: Freshman only.
About the Instructor:
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 : World War II Through the Documentary Lens
Instructors: Bill Drummond
Location: 104 North Gate Time: 12:30-2 F
CCN: 48006 Section: 3 Units: 1 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 0
Class Dates: Aug. 28-Oct. 30 This seminar will explore the events of 1939-1945 by examining what many experts believe to be the greatest historical TV series ever made: The World at War. This monumental work, originally broadcast thirty years ago, has been reissued. In DVD the boxed set contains 22 hours and 37 minutes of original programming, plus another 12 hours of extras, including a detailed account of how the series itself was made. It was seventy years ago in August, 1939, that the Second World War began, and its shadow hangs over relations between nations today from Middle Europe to the Middle East. The generations born since the war's end have slowly lost touch with the staggering human costs and the equally staggering questions of personal and national responsibility. The goal of this class is to make use of the documentarian's art to reopen these questions and examine them in light of new information and new sensibilities.Restrictions and Prerequisites: Freshman only.
About the Instructor:
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.
J216 : Advanced Multimedia
Instructors: Paul Grabowicz, Bill Gannon, Jerry Monti
Location: Other Time: 5-8 Th class & 2-5 W Lab
CCN: 48087 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: Yes Enrollment Limit: 12
In this class students will learn how to produce sophisticated multimedia projects and make use of various publishing technologies to produce content for online news sites. The multimedia stories and other projects will be produced for the various community-based news web sites created by the J200 classes. The projects will range from complex multimedia presentations, databases and map mash-ups, to use of social networks, mobile devices and other platforms for delivering content and encouraging citizen participation. The class is designed to give students a solid understanding of the technical and conceptual skills needed to produce high-quality journalism online and deliver interactive content on a variety of digital platforms.Restrictions and Prerequisites: Students are also required to take the lab component on Wednesdays from 2-5. Register for Advanced Flash and Web Development. Advanced MM students will be given priority enrollment. The lab time is required. See Flash and Web Development for their start dates and class locations.
About the Instructors:
Paul Grabowicz is Director of the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting and new media publishing.
Bill Gannon is Director of Online Operations at Lucasfilm Ltd. and previously was Editorial Director and Managing Editor at Yahoo!.
Jerry Monti is technology training instructor at the J-School's Knight Digital Media Center.
J212 : Advanced Radio/Watchdog Reporting
Instructors: Holly Kernan
Location: 209 Greenhouse Time: 1-4 F
CCN: 48069 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
This class is a hands-on approach to depth journalism. Students will work as an editorial team to shine a light on the inner workings of East Bay city governments and to find out how well strapped social services are serving the communities they are charged with helping. Many advanced radio students use this class to gather material for their documentary thesis projects -- this is encouraged and supported. This class is an opportunity for students to do professional level work for broadcast on the award- winning local magazine Crosscurrents. Students are encouraged but not required to create the first mix of their pieces. The course emphasizes great writing and storytelling, scene setting and use of sound, but also focuses on reporting in the public interest. This is shoe leather reporting that takes listeners directly inside of city bureaucracies and reveals what's working"¦and what's not -- in a compelling and timely fashion. Susan Rasky will be on-hand with background information and to offer reporting support.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructor:
Holly Kernan is the news director at public radio station KALW-FM in San Francisco and the architect of the award-winning Public Interest Reporting Project. She is also the director of the Public Radio Program at Mills College in Oakland. Kernan has worked at New America Media, Youth Radio, KQED, Link TV and Canal Sur in Spain, where she produced historical documentaries for public television. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Society for Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi, Edward R. Murrow, American Women in Radio and Television, Northern California Society for Professional Journalists’ Public Service Award and was recently named "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.
J288 : Digital TV: The Japanese in America
Instructors: Todd Carrel
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 11-1 MW
CCN: 48141 Section: 1 Units: 3 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
This will be a small class designed for students who have completed the Spring 2009 Digital TV and the World course, or who have equivalent digital TV and editing skills, or who have web design, coding and photography skills, or are fluent in Japanese. 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 Japanese American communities, then create cross-platform reports. Each student will report and produce stories crafted for the washingtonpost.com and other outlets. The course will emphasize solid reporting, clear expression and original storytelling.Restrictions and Prerequisites: Registration will be by waitlist only. Sign up on the waitlist by May 1st if you want to be considered for the class.
About the Instructor:
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.
J298 : Journalism in a time of disruptive change
Instructors: Alan Mutter
Location: 127 North Gate Time: 2-4 M
CCN: 48200 Section: 8 Units: 2 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
With the long-standing economic foundation for much of journalism under assault, students planning media careers must understand the business of the businesses that support journalism. Further, they need to learn the new roles and innovative skills that will equip them to contribute to the future vitality and viability of a strong and independent press. This course will acquaint students with the economic fundamentals of the media business and then concentrate on providing them with a deep and practical understanding of the three factors that define the success for any media venture: Audience building, content development and revenue generation.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructor:
Alan D. Mutter began his career as a newspaper columnist and editor at the Chicago Daily News and later rose to City Editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1984, he became the No. 2 editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. He left the newspaper business in 1988 to join InterMedia Partners, a start-up company that became one of the largest cable-TV companies in the country. Mutter was the COO of InterMedia when he moved to Silicon Valley in 1996 to lead the first of the three start-up companies he led as CEO. The companies he headed were a pioneering Internet service provider and two enterprise-software companies delivering cutting-edge solutions for media companies. Mutter now is a consultant specializing in corporate initiatives and new media ventures that combine his twin passions, journalism and technology. He joined the adjunct faculty of the Journalism School in January, 2009.
J234 : International Reporting: Mexico
Instructors: Tyche Hendricks
Location: B-1 North Gate Time: 2-5 W
CCN: 48116 Section: 2 Units: 4 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
Recent news coverage of the U.S.-Mexico border has been dominated by lurid stories of savage drug cartel violence and continuing reports about illegal immigration and border fences, along with the swine flu outbreak. But there is much more to the border region, a complex, bi-national world that is home to 12 million Americans and Mexicans, many of whom have lives that span the international frontier. In this course we will visit Northern Baja California and explore some of the pressing issues that are shaping life "“ in places ranging from the shantytowns of Tijuana to the hidden oases of the Colorado River Delta. Specifically we will report on the intersection of environmental and economic issues in the borderlands. Many of these concerns affecting Northern Mexico have causes and consequences that tie them to the United States. Among the possible stories students might pursue: the impact of global warming and international water politics on the ecosystem of the Colorado River Delta; the struggle for survival of the Cocopah Indians of the Upper Gulf of California; the consequences for Mexicali Valley farmers of the lining of the All-American Canal; the business and labor realities of transnational desert agriculture; the politics of energy generation in a growing border economy; the cross-border battle over Tijuana sewage; the public health implications of Tijuana's rapid urban growth; the problem of tracking disposal of industrial waste from border assembly plants. These suggestions are a sampling of the range of stories we can uncover. Over the course of the semester, students will do intensive background study of the history and current politics, economics and ecology of Northern Baja California and Mexico more generally. They will select a story topic, research the existing coverage of the issue and hone an original angle for a story. Students will develop sources and begin the reporting for their piece. The class will also meet with veteran reporters who have covered Mexico. In December we will travel to Mexico for a week to 10 days to conduct our field reporting. The instructor is primarily a print reporter, but students working in any media are welcome to enroll. Spanish speakers are especially encouraged to consider this class. During the semester we will discuss issues and challenges common to all foreign reporting and learn strategies to ensure a safe and successful trip.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructor:
Tyche Hendricks writes about the intersection of culture and politics, covering immigration, demographic trends and immigrant communities for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has reported extensively on the U.S.-Mexico border and her work has taken her across the continent from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Lake Nicaragua. Along the way, she has trekked through deserts and jungles, helped pregnancy test cattle and bury hurricane victims, monitored polling stations and learned to cook pollo en mole. Hendricks has worked at the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner, the San Jose Mercury News and the Seattle Times and as a freelance radio producer. Her work has won awards, including a Best of the West prize and an NFCB Golden Reel. She is currently writing a book about the border for the University of California Press. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University, and an MA in Latin American Studies and an MJ in Journalism, both from UC Berkeley.
J294 : Master's Project Seminar
Instructors: Neil Henry, Paul Grabowicz, Susan Rasky, Joan Bieder, Lydia Chavez, Jon Else, Cynthia Gorney, Ken Light, Michael Pollan, Lowell Bergman, Qiang Xiao, Jennifer Kahn
Location: By appt. Time: By appt.
CCN: 000 Section: 0 Units: 1 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: None
J294 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.
About the Instructors:
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 and new media publishing.
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.
Joan Bieder has made three trips to Israel and the most recent one, this summer, took her to Ramallah and Hebron in the Palestinian territories. The people she met and the places she saw convinced her to develop a seminar on how journalists and others portray the region, its people and its problems. Bieder worked for a decade as a television news producer at ABC News in NYC. Before coming to Berkeley, she taught print and broadcast journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Between 1993 and 2005, she spent several summers working as a television news consultant in Singapore while doing research on a minority community. Her book, The Jews of Singapore, (2007) traces the community’s journey from its ancient Baghdadi roots to the present. She has also 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.
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.
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.
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.
Light, curator of the Photojournalism Center at the School, is the author of 5 monographs including Texas Death Row.
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.
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.
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."
Jennifer Kahn has been a contributing editor at Wired magazine since 2003, and a feature writer for The New Yorker, National Geographic, Outside, Discover, Mother Jones, and the New York Times, among others. A graduate of Princeton University and UC Berkeley, she has degrees in astrophysics and journalism, and has been a recipient of the CASE-UCLA media fellowship in neuroscience. Her work has been chosen for the Best American Science Writing series four times in the past seven years, most recently for “A Cloud of Smoke,” about a policeman whose death four years after 9/11 was not what it seemed.
J290 : Thesis Editing Workshop
Instructors: Jennifer Kahn
Location: TBD Time: TBD
CCN: 48143 Section: 1 Units: 2 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: None
This course will offer structure and editing for anyone beginning work on a long-form thesis. The class will meet once a week, for two hours, and will concentrate on the steps involved in producing a publishable long-form piece. In place of a set syllabus, classes will be driven by the needs of the group, with a focus on refining story ideas, discussing reporting challenges, editing and workshopping early sections, and developing a magazine-caliber pitch. We'll also strategize about publication, and identify useful "template" stories: favorite articles that can be used as guides for voice, structure, subject, or tone. With a six-person maximum, the course will be small and highly collaborative "“ and could be particularly useful if you're enrolled in another narrative reporting class and want to begin developing that material as the basis of your thesis. It will also provide also a rare chance to work intimately with a group of like-minded future magazine writers: the very people who will become your most vital source of support and feedback (developing ideas, reading the first draft of a pitch) after graduation.Restrictions and Prerequisites: By Instructor Permission Only.
About the Instructor:
Jennifer Kahn has been a contributing editor at Wired magazine since 2003, and a feature writer for The New Yorker, National Geographic, Outside, Discover, Mother Jones, and the New York Times, among others. A graduate of Princeton University and UC Berkeley, she has degrees in astrophysics and journalism, and has been a recipient of the CASE-UCLA media fellowship in neuroscience. Her work has been chosen for the Best American Science Writing series four times in the past seven years, most recently for “A Cloud of Smoke,” about a policeman whose death four years after 9/11 was not what it seemed.
J219 : MINI:Pro Tools (6 Weeks)
Instructors: Shane Sharkey
Location: 209 Greenhouse Time: 10-12 M
CCN: 48237 Section: 7 Units: 1 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 12
9/14, 9/21, 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26 ProTools Basics This course focuses on the basic elements of the digital audio workstation called ProTools. the course involves 6, two-hour sessions to be taught over an eight week period. By the end of the six-week course, students will be able to perform basic operations within the ProTools program, including importing, editing and mixing audio.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructor:
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.
J601 : Master's Study
Instructors: Robert Gunnison
Location: TBD Time: TBD
CCN: 48228 Section: 1 Units: 99 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: None
Individual 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: Restricted to Journalism Students.
About the Instructor:
Rob Gunnison is Director of School Affairs at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. He arrived in 1999 after writing for 15 years for the San Francisco Chronicle in Sacramento, where he covered state government and politics with an emphasis on budget and tax issues. Before that, he was Sacramento Bureau Manager for United Press International where he covered government and politics for 11 years. His reporting on the savings and loan debacle was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. <p /> Mr. Gunnison teaches “Reporting and Writing the News” and has co-taught an investigative reporting class with Professor Bergman for six years.
J215 : Intro to Multimedia: Skills Follow-up
Instructors: Jeremy Rue, Richard Hernandez, Josh Williams
Location: By appt. Time: As Assigned
CCN: Section: 0 Units: 99 Fee: No Enrollment Limit: 25
Multimedia skill re-enforcement sessions.Restrictions and Prerequisites:
About the Instructors:
Jeremy Rue is a multimedia training instructor for the Knight Digital Media Center located at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. He teaches Flash and other programs for a series of week-long multimedia training workshops for professional working journalists through a program funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Richard Koci-Hernandez worked as a photographer at the San Jose Mercury News for 15 years. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times and international magazines, including Stern. In 2003, Richard was the recipient of the James K. Batten Knight Ridder Excellence Award. His work for the Mercury News has earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations. His photography and multimedia work has won numerous awards on the national and regional level, including two Emmy nominations. Richard was named deputy director of photography and multimedia after spearheading the creation of MercuryNewsPhoto.com. He has taught multimedia workshops for Stanford University, National Press Photographers Association, The Southern Short Course, National Association for Hispanic Journalists and National Association for Black Journalists. He has lectured at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Stanford University. Koci-Hernandez is a San Francisco State University journalism graduate, where he has been a guest instructor.
Josh Williams, formerly new media projects editor at the Las Vegas Sun, is a Multimedia Teaching Fellow at the J-School, where he is involved in the school's News21 project and Knight Digital Media Center. He managed the launch of the Sun's new website in 2008, which won awards from the Online News Association for general excellence and from Editor & Publisher for best overall newspaper affiliated site. Prior to that, Josh was a multimedia exhibit developer at the Smithsonian Institution for three years. He has a master's degree in interactive journalism from American University and a bachelor's degree in multimedia journalism from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.