Locked out of Care: The Hidden Human Cost of Prison Health Care in California

Drawing of an incarcerated person leaving a medical office.

Since 2006, California’s prison medical system has been under direct management of a federal court-appointed receiver or regulator, who took over the administration of prison health care service because the state was found to be providing unconstitutional levels of care. As federal oversight of the state prison system ends, the incarcerated worry health care will…

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Chasing Lithium  

A person bent over rocks on a beach working with clouds in the background.

Rachel Hiles (’16) and Nina Zou (’16) won the David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award for their master’s theses, the multimedia project “Chasing Lithium.” It was one of three works nominated, all of them produced by Berkeley J-School students, and became the seventh OJA win for a J-School graduate in eight years. Chasing Lithium explores the…

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Mining Legacy

Dark image of the back of a miner walking through a mine.

Mines once generated the wealth for many Colorado towns — for their people, their companies, and even their state as a whole. But this wealth came with an environmental price. There are about half a million abandoned mines across the country, according to the Bureau of Land Management, and most are in the Western United…

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J219: MINI Graphics, Animation and News Explainers

Students wishing to take this course must request permission by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/dGLVR3gWQ2ZGmBXm8 Note: this course is offered both in the fall and spring semesters. The fall version (10 weeks) is geared toward documentary students and the spring version (15 weeks) is geared toward multimedia students. The curriculum will differ and be more…

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J216 Multimedia Master’s Project Workshop

This is a two-semester class is for students who want to create a multimedia master’s project and specialize in digital media or multimedia reporting after graduation. In this class, students will work together, pooling their collective knowledge and resources, to build multifaceted websites that are comprised of text, audio, video, graphics, and interactive features.

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Berkeley 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…

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Hope at the end of the line

Class of ’21 multimedia producer Brett Marsh won ONA’s Student Journalism Award for his stunning thesis project on how an innovative transit system in Bogotá, Colombia is transforming a community on the margins. Judges comments The winning portfolio entry demonstrates a command of storytelling across an array of forms. ‘Hope at the End of the…

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