J298 Developing Your Blockbuster Investigative Story
This class is limited to students approved through last year’s J260 Investigative Seminar. This is an intense year-long seminar that aims to help students conceive, execute and publish ambitious investigative journalism with the full support of the Investigative Reporting Program. Students are challenged to identify an investigative project they are passionate about and then they…
Read MoreBerkeley Journalism Showcase Week (May 13-16)
Experience the best of Berkeley Journalism at Showcase Week—a dynamic series of events where our soon-to-be graduates present their powerful master’s projects. Over the course of the week, you’ll witness groundbreaking storytelling across mediums, often created in collaboration with peers from different tracks. Each session, lasting 1 to 3 hours, offers a front-row seat to…
Read MoreJ264B Open Source Investigations (OSINT)
Note: You must apply to be considered. This class meets at the Human Rights Center (HRC) across campus, 2224 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA. In this foundational investigations course, students will use legal, reporting and digital research methods to investigate a series of human rights issues for real-world partners. The outputs will be journalistic, including a…
Read MoreJ298 Developing your Blockbuster Investigative Story
This class is limited to students already enrolled in the course from the Fall 2024 semester. This is an intense year-long seminar that aims to help students conceive, execute and publish ambitious investigative journalism with the full support of the Investigative Reporting Program. Students are challenged to identify an investigative project they are passionate about…
Read MoreJ260 Investigative Reporting Seminar
This is a team-taught course by staff at IRP lead by David Barstow. Sessions will be mostly shepherded by IRP staff including Bernice Yeung, Garrett Therolf, Christine Schiavo, Yasmin Rafiei, and IRP fellows. Investigative journalism, when done right, can set the world on a different course. It can rewrite policies, send people to prison, exonerate…
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Survivors from California’s Period of Forced Sterilization Denied Reparations
by Cayla Mihalovich. This story was originally published in KQED on November 1, 2023. Pictured above: Sharon Fennix at her home in Antioch on Sept. 29, 2023. While incarcerated in 2006, a doctor performed a procedure on Fennix called an endometrial ablation. The doctor did not inform Fennix that the procedure would damage her uterine…
Read MoreJ298 Developing your Blockbuster Investigative Story
This class is limited to students already enrolled in the course from the Fall 2023 semester. This is an intense year-long seminar that aims to help students conceive, execute and publish ambitious investigative journalism with the full support of the Investigative Reporting Program. Students are challenged to identify an investigative project they are passionate about…
Read MoreJ260 Investigative Reporting Seminar
This is a team-taught course by staff at IRP lead by David Barstow. Sessions will be mostly shepherded by IRP staff including Bernice Yeung, Garrett Therolf, Christine Schiavo, Yasmin Rafiei, and IRP fellows. Investigative journalism, when done right, can set the world on a different course. It can rewrite policies, send people to prison, exonerate…
Read MoreJ264 Open Source Investigations (OSINT)
In this foundational investigations course, students will use legal, reporting and digital research methods to investigate a series of human rights issues for real-world partners. The outputs will be journalistic, including a series of audio, written and/or visual stories. For 2023-2024, the investigation and resulting publications will be designed to bring broad attention to environmental…
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