Posts by Chuck Harris

Hunter Holcombe (2012) won first prize for his film “Exit Wound” and Rebecca Friedman (2012) won third place for her film “Past Their Prime.” Rebecca’s film also received the National Geographic WILD Student Filmmaker Award.

The Kill Team, Dan Krauss’s (class ’04) film about American soldiers accused of a war crime in Afghanistan, was named best documentary feature premiering at the 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.

Aung Zaw, the Burmese journalist who co-taught this spring’s Reporting on Myanmar class with political science doctoral candidate Min Zin, has published an editorial in The New York Times.

While IRP Fellow Antonia Juhasz was in Afghanistan, examining the oil and gas rush in that war-torn country, she came across some intriguing documents showing that former U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad was trying to influence a round of bidding on drilling concessions that favored his own company.

Carrie Ching ’05 and Monica Lam ’04 produced video and multimedia features included in “Broken Shield,” a 2013 Pulitzer finalist. The project comes from California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

Molly Oleson ’13 and Allison Allbee, a graduate student in urban planning, were selected as the 2013 Dorothea Lange Fellowship winners.

Eric Simons ’08 has a new book out called “Secret Lives of Sports Fans: The Science of Sports Obsession .” In the book, Simons explores the culture of sports fanatics, which he also covered in an article for The Wall Street Journal.

This American Life aired a piece by David Ferry ’12 about a group of Native Americans in Northern California involved in a heated debate over who should be allowed to be a member of their tribe.

Starting this year, the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism will offer five $10,000 fellowships to early career journalists with ambitious stories to report on food and agriculture. Go here to find out more.

An Indian woman is pushing to change trash into energy in her home country. Read more about it in this piece, by William Harless ’13, featured on PBS.org.