County correctional sergeant demoted after tasing handcuffed inmate
Records released under California’s new law-enforcement transparency law show that a Mendocino County correctional officer was demoted after tasing a handcuffed inmate. Katey Rusch and Edward Booth (’20) covered the story for The Ukiah Daily Journal. January 8, 2020 By Katey Rusch and Edward Booth – The Investigative Reporting Program A Mendocino County correctional sergeant tased…
Read MoreThe Yellow House
Alum Sarah M. Broom’s (’04) exquisite debut book “The Yellow House” tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home…
Read MoreFresno’s Ugly Divide / Unequal From Birth
In August 2018, The Atlantic published one of the largest group projects in our history: seven multimedia master’s theses exploring Fresno, California: the state’s poorest major city and its legacy of segregation, discrimination and poverty that continues to impact residents today. Reports by Rachel Cassandra, Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou, Briana Flin, Alexandria Fuller, Margaret Katcher, Mary Newman…
Read MoreA Dangerous Business: An Investigation Into One of America’s Most Hazardous Employers
The most successful and most honored of our projects to date is a 2003 joint project involving The New York Times, PBS FRONTLINE and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that exposed worker death and dismemberment at an Alabama iron pipe company. It all started in a class at Berkeley Journalism. Following up on a tip provided…
Read MoreHow anti-abortion activists used undercover Planned Parenthood videos to further political cause
In this article for the Los Angeles Times, investigative reporting students Alissa Greenberg and Gabriel Sanchez and Times reporter Paige St. John report on unpublicized video footage taken by anti-abortion activist David Daleiden. The story is a collaboration between the IRP and the Times.
Read MoreTruck drivers forced into debt by trucking companies
Trucking companies have shorted drivers out of fair pay, forcing them into debt and threatening them into working longer hours, according to a USA TODAY Network investigation by UC Berkeley journalism alumni Brett Murphy, who began his reporting on the story as a student at the IRP.
Read MoreRosa Furneaux (’18) cover story + photographs in the East Bay Express
Rosa Furneaux (’18) cover story and photographs of Oakland Fire recruits on A1 of the East Bay Express. Read it here.
Read MoreJ298 : Telling Environmental Stories that Matter
Virtual Info Session: Narrative Writing with Lecturer Jennifer Kahn
REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT Join a live, half-hour discussion with Lecturer Jennifer Kahn about Berkeley Journalism’s narrative writing program. Ask the New York Times Magazine contributing writer your questions. Jennifer Kahn is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and has been a regular feature writer for The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Wired,…
Read MoreJ298 – Writing with Power
This course aims to develop and sharpen your writing in a small seminar environment. We’ll spend the first classes discussing voice and tone, clarity and brevity, pace and precision, dialogue and detail, with a novelist’s eye. Then we’ll turn the lens on your own work, using pieces you’re working on for other classes – whether those are…
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