Brian Perlman

Alumni

Brian Perlman was a graduate student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and a manager in the Human Rights Investigations Lab at the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law. His reporting and research interests converge at the intersection of human rights, data science, and open-source investigations.

Brian reported for the journalism school’s online publication Oakland North, as well as for U.S. news outlets, covering diverse topics ranging from police accountability and mental health to COVID-19-related disinformation and wildfire response and recovery—including being one of the first reporters on the ground after a major wildfire in Paradise, California. His COVID-19 coverage was published in The New York Times, and his Syria research resulting from his work at the Human Rights Center was published in BMJ Global Health and Bellingcat.

His journalistic work has been translated into French, Spanish, Russian, and Bengali, and he speaks fluent Spanish. He also has basic skills in a number of global languages, including Arabic, French, German, and Portuguese. His coding language skills include proficiency in Python, R, SQL, HTML/CSS, and LaTeX.

Brian graduated with a Master of Journalism in May 2020 with a 3.948 GPA.

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REPORTING INTERESTS

International Relations, Peace and Conflict, climate change, economic inequality, global migration crisis, internal medicine, police departments, refugees and IDPs

MEDIA PLATFORMS

Audio Journalism, Multimedia, Video Journalism