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Spanish Harlem: El Barrio in the ’80s by Joseph Rodriguez

Reception & Book Signing: 6:00-7:00 p.m. North Gate Hall Courtyard Lecture: 7:00-8:30 p.m. Room 105 North Gate Hall When Brooklyn-raised photographer Joseph Rodriguez first debuted his body of work shot in Spanish Harlem in the 1980s, it changed the face of documentary photography. Grit, elegy, celebration, pride, lurking cataclysm—all embedded in the portrait of a…

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Covering Congress and a White House in Perpetual Crisis

Please join us for a special evening event featuring top DC reporters from the Chicago Sun-Times, New York Times, Politico, Vanity Fair and the Washington Post.   Carl Hulse is Chief Washington Correspondent of The New York Times and managing editor of First Draft, a daily political newsletter. He is the author of On Washington,…

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Reporting on Sexual Assault in the Workplace: A panel featuring the radio, broadcast and print investigative team that produced Rape on the Night Shift

Join the award-winning investigative team that produced Rape on the Night Shift for a candid discussion about covering sexual assault and harassment in the workplace before, and now during, the #metoo movement. The team will also talk about the behind the scenes work of reporting and gathering material for print, radio and broadcast film pieces–in…

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NABJ Presents: “Objectivity through the Black Lens”

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Alberto Cairo on Visual “Trumpery” and the fight against fake data and visualizations

The English word “trumpery” means worthless nonsense, something that is showy and deceitful at the same time. Trumpery can occur in text, verbally, or visually. This non-partisan talk focuses on the visual, examining misleading charts, graphs, and data maps designed by individuals and organizations from across the political spectrum. With facts and truth increasingly under…

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The Journalism of Well-Being: Reporting on Mindful Work and Positive Psychology

CLICK HERE to RSVP. Reception: 6:00 p.m. (North Gate Hall Courtyard) Discussion: 6:30 p.m. (North Gate Hall Library) Come meet two alums of the J-School who are pioneering the journalism of personal and social change from within the self.  David Gelles, ’08, is the author of the new book Mindful Work: How Meditation is Changing Work…

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Gutenberg’s Apprentice: A novel by Alix Christie

With her sweeping debut novel GUTENBERG’S APPRENTICE, journalist Alix Christie plunges readers into the world of a more than 500-year-old technological revolution.  Christie tells the remarkable story of the invention of printing in medieval Germany as a narrative of human drama and achievement that, for the first time, brings Gutenberg’s unsung partners to the fore.…

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The Latest in Longform

The Berkeley Narrative Journalism Conference 2014   REGISTER HERE Under the direction of Constance Hale, MJ ’90, this Cal conference brings together top editors and an audience of talented, veteran writers. The two keynote speakers are editor Jake Silverstein of The New York Times Magazine and writer Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker. More than a…

RSVP Required: David Barstow | The Story Behind the $100 Million Story

RSVP: juliehirano@berkeley.edu In April, David Barstow described in The New York Times how Wal-Mart’s highest executives covered up evidence of systematic bribery by Wal-Mart de Mexico, it’s largest and most important foreign subsidiary. The story triggered investigations by the Justice Department, the SEC and Mexican authorities, along with at least a dozen lawsuits by Wal-Mart…

Alumni Weekend

  Alumni Weekend Agenda  (Subject to change) Friday, October 5 2:00-3:00 p.m.  J-School Tours          3:00-4:15 p.m. Social Media Storytelling                                         Jerry Monti  Technology Education Architect & Trainer, Knight Digital Media Center Storytelling is the…