Wednesday, May 11
North Gate Hall - UC Berkeley Campus
Narrative Writing
5:00 - 6:30pm
In-Person Location:
Logan Multimedia Center - Room 142
Live Streaming:
YouTube
In a months-long investigation for The Dallas Morning News, I reveal that Social Sentinel, a social media monitoring service used by dozens of colleges nationwide, is ineffective for its stated purpose of preventing suicides and shootings. I also uncover several examples of colleges using the service to surveil protests and activists.
A look inside the niche market of carnivorous plant collectors causing the extinction of their own obsession.
This collection of stories explores a range of topics united by the theme of technology — How one of the world's most prominent tech companies reckoned, internally, with scandal; the uncertain but hopeful future of "green" office buildings; and a particularly dystopian public health failure amid the Omicron variant's winter surge: the emergence of high-end Covid testing.
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My work focuses on anthropogenic climate change stories. I distill the science and analyze data to better inform the reader with the goal of influencing and encouraging the audience to make better decisions that affect the Pale Blue Dot.
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As Covid-19 made it’s way across the United States and the world, misinformation spread like wildfire on the internet. Spanish misinformation in particular affects a majority of Hispanic and Latino people as they use social media as their main form of consuming the news. Our story follows a small community in Mexico and aims to show how this has impacted their lives and affects the decisions they make.
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American sports gambling apps are betting big on live wagering, a tried-and-true profit maker in Europe that allows fans to lay money on every moment of a game – from the first player to score a touchdown in football to the next point in tennis. But this type of betting could have serious ramifications in states where sports wagering is legal. This year-long investigation chronicles the story of live betting and the ongoing explosion of mobile sports gambling.
When he was elected president, Nayib Bukele promised Salvadorans a bright future and a set of new ideas — in part by making Bitcoin legal currency. However, Bitcoin is spiraling, there is a creep of authoritarianism, and Salvadorans are watching as President Bukele turns from a techno-libertarian idealist into a fledgling dictator.
More than six million Americans living with Alzheimer’s are 65 and older. What happens when the disease is detected in your 40s or 50s?
A look at the largest and least regulated system of higher education in the United States and the impacts that it has on students who it educates.
A priest in southern Italy is fighting the mafia, trying to make it visible to the eyes of the community, but also to the Vatican.
6:30 - 7:30pm
Reception:
Join us in the North Gate Hall Courtyard for food and drinks.
Audio
7:30-9:00pm
In-Person Location:
Logan Multimedia Center - Room 142
In the last century, the federal government has tried to build its way out of California’s water crisis. The parallel story of the Winnemem Wintu tribe's displacement is a reminder that we can’t conjure water out of thin air.
There's often a lot of shame and embarrassment that comes with the inability to speak the language of your parents or grandparents — your "heritage language." Izzy Bloom got used to telling people the same story when they asked if she could speak her heritage language, Japanese. She'd say she's not as good as she'd like to be because her mom didn't teach her older brother. And, because he wasn't taught Japanese, neither was she. Simple enough. But the real story is much more complicated.
Noah Baustin’s reporting started with a single question: if he chose a random block in Berkeley and spent months interviewing the people connected to the neighborhood, what stories would he find?
The result is a collection of six short stories that feature Shamar, who recently took over as owner of his family’s barbeque restaurant after his mother passed away, Karen, who had to fight off threats from the men around her who didn't want a women in the tattoo shop and Ronny, the balloon decorator who has formed meaningful bonds with customers through years of shared holidays, and more.
Together, these stories give a glimpse into life on Berkeley’s San Pablo Avenue.
How eminent domain was used to enforce segregation in a suburb in St. Louis and beyond.
A former patient of a biomedical brain enhancement treatment asks the question of whether they should be grateful or concerned.