The Long Campaign to Turn Birth Control Into the New Abortion

Two people participate in an anti-abortion protest. One person holds a sign that reads, "I am the Post-Roe Generation," while the other, part of a broader campaign, holds a circular sign saying, "#DismantleRoe." They stand in front of a collage featuring contraceptive pills and Plan B packaging.

Now that the fall of Roe v. Wade has ended the constitutional right to abortion, many in the religious right have a new goal: undermining trust in, and limiting access to, hormonal contraception – including the pill. Credit: Photo collage by Sarah Mirk for Reveal. Photo credits: SSPL, Justin Sullivan, and Drew Angerer via Getty…

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J219: MINI: Intro to Audio (7 Weeks)

This class is the first seven weeks of the semester. Class times will be 1/18, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, 2/22, and 3/1. This class is for non-audio track students designed to teach the basics of audio journalism. If you’ve never taken an audio class at the J-School and you want an opportunity to learn the…

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J276 Intermediate Audio

This class is the next sequence for first-year audio track students who took the Audio J200 with Shereen. Other non-audio track students interested in learning a little bit of audio should take J219 Introduction to Audio. The goal of this class is to produce captivating, narrative, long-form audio stories. Students will learn the fundamentals of…

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J276 Digital Accountability: Exploring Section 230

There are 26 words that changed the world. “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” These words are enshrined in the Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The statute, which has been in effect for…

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Alumni Portrait: Alyssa Jeong Perry of NPR’s “Code Switch”

A person wearing a mask holds two microphones outside a brick building. They have headphones around their neck and a lanyard with an ID badge that reads "Berkeley Journalism." A poster and a plaque are visible on the building behind them.

For Alyssa Jeong Perry (’16), the recent wave of anti-Asian violence has underscored the need to report on the diversity within the Asian American community. Perry, who is Korean American, is a producer at National Public Radio’s “Code Switch” podcast, where she feels fortunate to be able to report deeply on issues of race, ethnic…

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