J298 Developing You Investigative Blockbuster Story
This class is limited to students already enrolled in the course from the fall 2021 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 More‘DYING INSIDE’: CHAOS AND CRUELTY IN LOUISIANA JUVENILE DETENTION
Repeated abuses, overlooked complaints and a surge in suicide attempts at a detention center with powerful allies. By Megan Shutzer and Rachel Lauren Mueller This story appeared on the front page of the New York Times on October 30, 2022. Update: On Tuesday, the Louisiana governor asked for an investigation into conditions at Ware Youth Center. COUSHATTA,…
Read MoreJ298 OSINT Seminar – Open Source Investigations
This class will be two part: a seminar focusing on a particular story in collaboration with the Associated Press, and a lab portion focusing on using cutting edge Open Source investigative techniques, pioneered by Berkeley’s Human Right’s Center, with investigative reporting and multimedia skills. This course will be co-taught by representatives from the Human Right’s…
Read MoreJ298 Developing your Blockbuster Investigative Story
This class is limited to students already enrolled in the course from the fall 2021 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 MoreUS-expelled Haitians fuel charter business to Latin America
(Etienne Ilienses checks her family’s papers for a flight to Chile, at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Ilienses said she was sent back to Haiti from Texas on Dec. 14 and talked to the AP before flying to Santiago with her three children on a Jan. 30 charter…
Read MoreJ219 – Research Methods (Required of all 1st years) 7 weeks 8/30 – 10/11
This is a required course for all first-year students that will teach investigative research techniques that can be applied in your J200 Intro to Reporting class. Topics we will cover include how work with data in the context of journalism; using spreadsheets to sort, clean, interrogate and summarize data; how to request documents from local,…
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One Bay Area city, 73 police dog bites, and the law that made them public
How the city of Richmond could be a test case in California’s quest for police accountability Odin lunges during training at the Richmond Police K-9 training facility in November. Richmond police have logged dog bites at a higher rate than their counterparts in the nation’s largest cities, but police argue it’s better to use dogs than…
Read More‘It makes a humongous difference’: Lack of Wi-Fi in city SROs deepens residents’ isolation
(Pictured Above: Jack Huck, 72, uses an Android phone, but has no internet access from his longtime room in the Winton Hotel, a single-room-occupancy residence in San Francisco. The Wi-Fi gap leaves many people isolated. Photo by Nick Otto/Special to The Chronicle) This story appeared in print and e-edition of The San Francisco Chronicle on…
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