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September 19, 2020 Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, In these deeply disturbing times, we need to hold on to inspiration when it comes. I write to you today because I believe there’s so much inspiration that we, as journalists and human beings, can draw from the life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, even as we mourn…
July 21, 2020 Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, I write to you as we mourn the death of one of our greatest fighters for racial justice, Representative John Lewis. To our Black students, our BIPOC students, and our entire journalism community, let me say that we will hold on tightly to the memory of Rep. Lewis’s…
Limited services for first responders dealing with mental trauma June 25, 2020 In 2017, a retired police captain woke up in the middle of the night with his gun in his hand, his wife’s shriek breaking the 3am silence. The metal felt cold against his sweaty palm, his heart beat like it was ready to…
The students and parents pushed and prodded over 10 weeks for an exception to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s shelter-in-place order. June 15, 2020 PARADISE, Calif. — When Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans to fight the coronavirus by closing down the entire state, including schools, the seniors at Paradise High School began peppering local officials with one…
When the statewide shelter-in-place order shuttered many restaurants in the Bay Area, Annabelle Lenderink panicked. She manages Star Route Farms, which grows a variety of vegetables in West Marin and the Coachella Valley. Nearly all of the restaurant sales the 40-acre farm depends on evaporated overnight. “It was just really gone, you know, nothing,” Lenderink…
April 23, 2020 OAKLAND — Anthony Deloney is homeless and 63 years old, a frightful combination in this pandemic. Yet this is how Mr. Deloney described his fate on a recent Thursday afternoon: “Every day the sun rises, there’s something for me to look forward to.” His hopefulness, it turned out, rested on a…
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…
BIO is offering the below Pre-Arrival Online Webinars for incoming students. Register for the webinars by following the links below. All times are in Pacific Standard Time. Applying for Your Student Visa: April 24, 3:30 – 5 p.m. (register) Housing in the Bay Area: May 1, 3:30 – 5 p.m. (register) Applying for Your Student…
This story appeared in The New York Times on March 24, 2021. By Erin Chessin (’21) and Brett Marsh (’21) The Natomas Unified School District, a diverse, low-income community on the northern outskirts of Sacramento, is celebrated for its pioneering mental health program. The program, created after a student’s suicide in 2014, dispatches rapid response…
What does it mean to report on gender-related topics with an awareness of race, class, and other intersections? How can people of all genders and backgrounds investigate matters that pertain to both their identities as well as identities other than their own? Where would you find ideas for focusing on gender-related topics, and how can…