“I felt hate more than anything”: How an active duty airman tried to start a civil war
(Pictured above: Steven Carrillo is charged with murdering a Santa Cruz County deputy sheriff and a security officer guarding Oakland’s federal courthouse. Credit: FRONTLINE) This story appeared in ProPublica on April 13, 2021. It is part of a collaboration between Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program, ProPublica and FRONTLINE that includes the documentary American Insurrection, airing 10 p.m. Eastern…
Read MoreCOVID’s Hidden Toll
Watch Here July 21, 2020 While millions of Americans have been sheltering in place, FRONTLINE has been investigating the hidden toll of the pandemic of those who cannot stay home: Agricultural workers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants, who have been deemed essential to the nation’s food supply. In COVID’s Hidden Toll, numerous farmworkers speak…
Read More“Rape in the Fields”
FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America’s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families. This investigation is the result of a yearlong reporting effort by veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, and…
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 MoreThe Secret History of the Credit Card
In this award-winning year-long investigation led by Prof. Lowell Bergman, FRONTLINE and The New York Times joined forces to investigate an industry few Americans fully understand. “The Secret History of the Credit Card“— which received a great deal of attention as Congress debated legislation to overhaul the bankruptcy system—uncovered the techniques used by the industry to earn record profits and get…
Read MoreKids Caught in the Crackdown
As the detention of migrant children climbed to record-breaking levels under President Trump, FRONTLINE and The Associated Press investigate what’s going on inside federally-funded shelters — and the lasting impact on children held in U.S. custody. Produced by FRONTLINE’s Daffodil Altan and Berkeley Journalism Prof. Andrés Cediel, featuring AP investigative reporters Garance Burke and Martha…
Read MoreTrafficked in America
Trafficked in America—produced at the J-School’s Investigative Reporting Program, and by its nonprofit production company, Investigative Studios, and PBS Frontline—investigates how teenagers from Central America are smuggled into the U.S. by traffickers who promised them jobs and a better life, only to force them to live and work in virtual slavery to pay off their…
Read MoreMagazine profiles student reporters investigating California police officers in Bay Area News Group collaboration
This story appeared in California Magazine on January 8, 2020 By Brandon Patterson In May of last year, Laurence Du Sault and Katey Rusch stood hunched over a single desk in a records room in a courthouse in Lancaster, California, carefully parsing and then photocopying court files they had pulled on numerous police officers convicted…
Read MoreIRP Collaborates with NBC’s “Meet the Press” in report on billionaire political donors
The IRP continues its investigation into the gambling mecca of Macau and the U.S. casino companies that do business there. It recently collaborated with NBC News on a story on billionaire gaming magnate and influential Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, which aired on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in May.
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