Posts by Chuck Harris

J-School Fellow Zahid Rafiq details his amazing story about an ex-Indian soldier who fled to the U.S. after being wanted for murder.

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The film by Mario Furloni ’11 and Kate McLean ’11 won best documentary award at the USA Short Film Festival, in Dallas. It is also selected as a national finalist for the Student Academy Awards, and is an official selection for the prestigious Hot Docs festival, in Toronto.

Edward Wasserman has been selected to become the sixth dean of the Graduate School of Journalism.

The Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism won a
2011 award from the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) for its role
in creating the PBS Frontline documentary “Post Mortem: Death Investigation
in America.”

A story co-produced by recent grads Carl Nasman ’12 with Roberto Daza ’12 aired on PBS NewsHour Friday, June 8. The story focuses on the influx of American junk food into developing nations. Carl and Roberto visited rural villages of El Salvador and saw first hand the black and rotten teeth of kids subject to American food companies.

Incoming student Mihir Zaveri’s debut article for The Washington Post covers D.C. City Officials’ reaction to a controversial program.

Byron Wilkes ’13 is interning in Iceland this summer at The Reykjavik
Grapevine. Wilkes’ footage of a security guard attacking a man in the bus
station made national news there.

Check out the work of UC Berkeley grad students who took the Web Development course this spring where they learned how to construct a personal portfolio website to showcase their work to future employers. You should hire these people, seriously.

Read about Adjunct Professor Ken Light and Melanie Light’s new book Valley of Shadows and Dreams, both as a multimedia slide show and also as a printed piece, in the Sunday Review of the New York Times.

UC Berkeley’s community reporting site Mission Loc@l collaborated with UC Berkeley cartography students to create Mission Possible: A Neighborhood Atlas. Students examined and mapped phenomena of the Mission in an effort to look at the neighborhood from different viewpoints and to offer users useful information.