UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alumni earned top honors in the
Society of Professional Journalists’ Northern California Chapter 2013 awards
contest.
Jason Marsh (’05) of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley was
honored for his piece, “Why Inequality Is Bad for the One Percent,” which
examines how income disparity negatively affects both the wealthy and the poor.
Sasha Khokha (’04), Grace Rubenstein and Patricia Flynn of KQED Public
Radio; Bernice Yeung of The Center for Investigative Reporting; and the
Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of
Journalism was honored for their explanatory series, which is part of a larger
project with Frontline and Univision, exposing how undocumented women who
work in the fields experience sexual abuse and rape by supervisors and others in
positions of power.
Carrie Ching (’05), Sarah Terry-Cobo (’08) and Arthur Jones of The Center for
Investigative Reporting was honored for their explanatory piece, “The Hidden
Cost of Hamburgers,” a story that shows how America’s beef consumption has a
significant affect on human health and the environment.
Ching was also honored in the journalism innovation category for her graphic
storytelling and as a member of the Center for Investigative Reporting group that
uncovered the sexual assault of a mentally disabled woman in state care, part of
a multiplatform investigation into the abuse of developmentally disabled residents
in California’s state-run institutions. Also honored for that CIR project was Ryan
Gabrielson and Marina Luz.
David Ferry (’12) and Nancy Updike were honored for the “This American Life”
feature examining the Native American disenrollment process.