The Investigative Reporting Program of the Graduate School of Journalism today announced its 2011-2012 Fellows in Investigative Reporting. This is the fifth year of the fellowship program, which is unlike any other offered by an academic institution in this country. The Fellows spend a year with a salary, expenses and editorial support pursuing stories in depth and on multiple platforms.
This year’s recipients include Joe Mullin, an alum of the Journalism School, who has worked as a legal reporter doing ongoing coverage of new developments in patent law; Annie Murphy, a freelance reporter who has covered South America extensively for NPR and other outlets; and Chanan Tigay, an award winning print reporter with extensive experience covering the Middle East and Israel.
Joe Mullin, Annie Murphy and Chanan Tigay.
Murphy, 29, of Bowdoin, Maine, is an independent journalist who works in radio, print, and multimedia. Based in South America for the past six years, she works as a regular contributor to NPR, and has investigated topics such as copper mining in Chile’s Atacama Desert, oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon, and urban conflict in Rio de Janeiro. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Murphy’s work has earned her fellowships from the Fulbright Program, Middlebury College’s Environmental Reporting Fellowship, and the International Reporting Project. She has a B.A. in Anthropology from Smith College.
Mullin, 34, of Orange, California, who received his master of journalism degree at Berkeley, is a reporter for paidContent, where he covers the intersection of media, technology, and the law. Before that, he worked for The American Lawyer, where he reported on copyright and patent law and litigation. He’s also written for The Seattle Times and the Associated Press. Mullin has a B.A. in History from U.C. Berkeley.
Chanan Tigay, 35, a freelance journalist based in San Francisco, has contributed to publications including Newsweek, New York magazine, the Wall Street Journal, McSweeney’s, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a correspondent in the Jerusalem Bureau of Agence France-Presse; 9-11 for United Press International; and the United Nations and the U.S. Jewish community for the Jerusalem Report magazine. He has taught in Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program and its Graduate School of Business. Tigay has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University.
Based in the offices of the Investigative Reporting Program at Berkeley, Murphy, Mullin and Tigay will begin work in September 2011.
The Investigative Reporting Program will also continue to provide support in-residence to veteran investigative reporter and former Time magazine bureau chief Tim McGirk, who has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Israeli- Palestinian conflict and the hunt for al-Qaeda. McGirk will work closely with the fellows assisting in guiding their reporting and editing their work.
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, Jerome Simon, Steve Silberstein and Peter Wiley.
“With the support of our donors we have been able to promote and support young journalists who want to do in-depth stories in the public interest,” said Bergman. “All of our collaborators including Frontline, The Center for Investigative Reporting, NPR, ProPublica and Reuters, major newspapers, and now Mother Jones, have acknowledged the importance of the program and have helped by acknowledging the value of their work.”
The IRP Fellowships are run by investigative reporter Marlena Telvick, deputy director of the IRP.
About the Investigative Reporting Program
The Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, established permanently in 2006, builds on work begun in 1992 in the seminars taught by Lowell Bergman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and documentarian.
Funded almost entirely by private grants and gifts, including a chair endowed by the Reva and David Logan Foundation of Chicago, the IRP functions both as a specialized graduate-level training program and as a non-profit newsgathering operation, generating stories for major broadcast, print and online outlets.
For more details, contact:
Investigative Reporting Program
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
2481 Hearst Avenue Berkeley, CA 94709
510-643-1386/510-643-1299
www.investigativereportingprogram.com