@SharonBernstein

Reporter, editor, banjo player and mom, not necessarily in that order. Also guitar.

 Sacramento
Joined January 2010
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Some personal news: Today I joined @sacbee_news as a senior reporter covering issues of criminal justice and federal courts! Super excited for the adventures ahead. DM me any story ideas!
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Dan Morain@DanielMorain13 Mar 2024
Gavin Newsom's Proposition 1 leads by 4,218 votes out of 6,324,968 votes counted so far. Impossible to call this one with 1.2 million-plus votes left to count.
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So excited to announce I've joined @berkeleyside in a temporary capacity as managing editor. Looking forward to learning more about the non-profit model for local news delivery and working with this amazing team!
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Seriously I'm going to love this job. Check out this story on the site today - and don't forget to listen to the song! berkeleyside.org/2024/02/21/…

A heat pump croons about ‘climatic healing’ in Berkeley musicians’ new song

As climate-friendly heat pumps replace gas furnaces, two musicians teamed up on a song called “I’m Your Heat Pump.”

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Reuters Press Team@ReutersPR16 Oct 2023
Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni gives statement on killing of Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah
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Colleen Jenkins@colleenjenk1 Aug 2023
US colleges refashion student essay prompts after ban on affirmative action reuters.com/world/us/us-coll… via @SharonBernstein

US colleges refashion student essay prompts after ban on affirmative action

In addition to writing about their favorite songs and why they want to go to college, students applying to Emory University in Atlanta this fall will get new essay prompts aimed at teasing out...

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Reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action reuters.com/legal/reactions-…

Affirmative action: Reactions to the US Supreme Court ruling

Here are reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action on Thursday, on Twitter and elsewhere.

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Key voices in the decades-long debate over affirmative action reuters.com/world/us/key-voi…

Affirmative action: Key voices in the decades-long US debate

For decades, selective U.S. colleges and universities have considered, among other factors, whether applicants are from underrepresented minority groups, including Black, Hispanic and Native Americ...

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Our former @UCBerkeley School of Ed interim Dean + @BerkeleyLaw Prof. Christopher Edley talks with @Reuters @SharonBernstein: "I don't think the job is done until the picture is bloodless." reuters.com/world/us/key-voi…

Affirmative action: Key voices in the decades-long US debate

For decades, selective U.S. colleges and universities have considered, among other factors, whether applicants are from underrepresented minority groups, including Black, Hispanic and Native Americ...

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Dan Morain@DanielMorain26 Jun 2023
How about Arkansas? Or Mississippi? – at Davis, CA
Jeremy B. White@JeremyBWhite26 Jun 2023
Just once, I’d love to see someone write a “Can New York City Be Saved?” piece
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Colleen Jenkins@colleenjenk20 Jun 2023
👀 – at Winston-Salem, NC
WUNC@wunc20 Jun 2023
Any undergraduate student from North Carolina and South Carolina admitted to Duke whose household income is $150,000 or less will not have to pay tuition. "... a Duke education can be affordable and accessible." ow.ly/CvtK50OSAPU

Duke University launches free tuition for undergraduates who call the Carolinas home

It's a bold and broad financial aid commitment — any undergraduate student from NC or SC admitted to Duke whose household income is $150,000 or less will not have to pay tuition. Those whose family...

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How U.C. Berkeley tried to buoy enrollment of Black students without affirmative action reut.rs/462tAeq
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UT Dallas@UT_Dallas12 May 2023
ICYMI ~ Joan Bernstein BA’08, MA’10, who will receive her doctoral hood at a ceremony today, will become the oldest student to receive a PhD from UT Dallas at the age of 88 🎓 #utdgrad news.utdallas.edu/students-t…

At 88, New PhD Graduate Finds Endless Excitement in Education

Joan Bernstein BA’08, MA’10 will become the oldest student to receive a PhD from UT Dallas at the age of 88. She has been taking classes at UTD for more than 20 years. For Joan Bernstein BA’08,...

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This quake around Plumas National Forest may have been what people were feeling in Sacramento. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqua…
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North Carolina Republicans reach agreement on 12-week abortion ban reuters.com/world/us/north-c…

North Carolina Republicans reach agreement on 12-week abortion ban

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina said on Tuesday they had reached agreement on a plan to limit most abortions to the first trimester of pregnancy, a sharp drop from the state's current limit of...

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Women state senators cross party lines to block proposed South Carolina abortion ban reuters.com/world/us/women-s…

Women state senators cross party lines to block proposed South Carolina abortion ban

A day after all five women in the South Carolina state senate banded together to block a proposed abortion ban, Republican Senator Sandy Senn posted a picture of the group on her Facebook page...

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Abortion providers relieved, wary as high court preserves pill access reuters.com/world/us/us-abor…

Abortion providers relieved, wary as high court preserves pill access

Abortion rights supporters expressed relief on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court preserved access to a widely used abortion pill but warned of a long fight ahead as a legal challenge to the...

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This has been getting worse and worse for years. kudos to @akoseff and @CalMatters calmatters.org/politics/2023…

A failure to communicate: California government cuts back press access

A shift by state communications officials to emails and written statements is making it more difficult for reporters to inform the public.

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A tale of two extremes. Here is how the snowpack modeled by @NWSNWC (NOHRSC) compares from our current WY (2023), and our very dry WY just 8 years ago (2015). Also, here are traces of these two years from @CA_DWR. % of avg on April 19 in 2023 is 251% vs 3% in 2015. #CAwx #CAwater
Modeled snowpack from NOHRSC on April 19, 2015.

ALT Modeled snowpack from NOHRSC on April 19, 2015.

Modeled snowpack from NOHRSC on April 19, 2023.

ALT Modeled snowpack from NOHRSC on April 19, 2023.

Traces of the 2015 vs 2023 WY snowpack.

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Kentucky police video shows desperate rush to stop mass shooting, save lives reuters.com/world/us/kentuck…

Kentucky police video shows desperate rush to stop mass shooting

The desperate rush by a rookie policeman and his training officer to bring a mass shooting at a Kentucky bank to a halt was captured in spare but dramatic detail in footage from their body cameras,...

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