2011-2012 UC Berkeley IRP Fellows Joe Mullin, Annie Murphy and Chanan Tigay.
Winners of the 2011-2012 full-time, yearlong investigative reporting fellowships are Joe Mullin of Orange, Annie Murphy of Bowdoin, Maine, and Chanan Tigay of San Francisco.
Journalism School alum, Mullin, 34, has worked as a legal reporter, covering new
developments in copyright and patent law. He was a reporter for paidContent and The American
Lawyer. He’s also written for The Seattle Times and the Associated Press. Mullin has a Bachelor’s in history from UC Berkeley.
Based in South America for the past six years, independent journalist Murphy, 29, has
covered topics ranging from copper mining in Chile to oil spills in Peru. Her writing,
appearing in The Atlantic, The Nation, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, has earned her fellowships from the Fulbright Program among others. She has a Bachelor’s in
anthropology from Smith College.
Tigay, 35, a freelance journalist based in San Francisco, has contributed to publications
including Newsweek, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and The San
Francisco Chronicle. He has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 9/11 and the United
Nations. Tigay has taught in Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program and its Graduate
School of Business. He has a Master’s in creative writing from Columbia University.
This is the fifth year of the fellowship program, which is unlike any other offered by
an academic institution in this country. In addition to the $51,000 award, fellows will
receive office space, basic expenses, and a $10,000 travel stipend. This year’s fellowships
are made possible by core grants from the Sandler Foundation and the Hellman
Foundation along with donations from Scott and Jennifer Fearon, The Financial Times
and Jerome and Hillary Simon.