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The future is…fliers? California Watch experiments with a...
Last month, California Watch published a big story. “Shaky Ground,” higher ed reporter Erica Perez‘s investigation into seismic safety in the state’s public university system, found — among other...
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“Revenue promiscuity”: The many ways in-depth and investigative reporting...
John Thornton, the chairman of the nonprofit Texas Tribune, has a term he uses to describe how his investigative news venture will stay afloat: revenue promiscuity. “You have to get it everywhere and...
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A hive of long-form journalists: Gerry Marzorati and Mark Danner on a new...
Yesterday at the Berkeley School of Journalism, former New York Times Magazine editor Gerald Marzorati and author and former New Yorker writer Mark Danner sat down to talk about the “the fate of...
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“The price you pay for asking people to pay the price”: Gerry Marzorati on...
Two years ago, when The New York Times’ Gerry Marzorati spoke at the Berkeley School of Journalism, “the newspaper was in free fall. I remember people volunteering to give you money,” Michael Pollan...
View ArticleCut loose by UC Berkeley, hyperlocal site Mission Local looks to spin off as...
Five years ago, in the worst days of the economic collapse, Len Downie and Michael Schudson wrote their benchmark report “The Reconstruction of American Journalism,” attempting to chart a course...
View ArticleBerkeley dean: Teaching hospital model isn’t “some template that you simply...
As dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Edward Wasserman’s goal is simple: “I’m trying to turn out journalists who get Pulitzer Prizes.” But with limited resources, achieving that...
View ArticleHow UC Berkeley computer science students helped build a database of police...
In 2018, California passed the “Right to Know Act,” unsealing three types of internal law enforcement documents: use of force records, sexual assault records, and official dishonesty records. Before...
View ArticleThe state of California will fund $25 million in local reporting fellowships
The budget passed in California this week includes $25 million worth of help for local news, which will be distributed via UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism starting next year. This isn’t the...
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