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Berkeley, CA
Joined May 2008
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I am honored to work alongside faculty, staff, alumni, students and friends to move Berkeley Journalism into a bright future of possibility.
Welcome to our new dean @michaelbolden! “In these times of unprecedented challenges for journalism...Bolden is uniquely suited to help educate and prepare our next generation of journalists," said @UCBerkeley Chancellor @richlyons journalism.berkeley.edu/2025…
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🎙️ “We stand here together today to help push back the dark clouds of authoritarianism. We will expose the wrongdoing the corrupt want to remain hidden in the shadows. We will illuminate the dark corners where the powerful hide their deceit and dishonesty.”
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NEW:
"San Francisco’s skyline, rezoned"
We built a 3D model of the city showing where buildings could get taller under Mayor Lurie's new Family Zoning plan.
GIFT LINK: sfchronicle.com/projects/202…
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Merrill College students know their rights as journalists.
"Cat Murphy is a master's student at the University of Maryland, credentialed as a reporter for our Capital News Service and doing the job we teach our students to do. Cat recorded openly in a public space alongside other news outlets, and that is her legal right," Dean Rafael Lorente (@DeanLorente) said. "I'm proud of how she handled herself in a difficult situation."
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👉 The Lab will work closely with Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program, and will draw on UC Berkeley’s expertise across disciplines and Forbidden Stories’ global network of more than 300 journalists and 130 media partners.
“The Forbidden Stories Lab at UC Berkeley Journalism will strengthen the field and reinforce press freedom. It is proof that journalism is rising even amid an onslaught of attacks on reporters and growing threats to the free flow of information.”
@michaelbolden, dean of UC Berkeley Journalism.
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John Coltrane was born 100 years ago today September 23, 1926. Trane was still near the start of his remarkable creative journey when he went into Rudy Van Gelder’s living room studio on September 15, 1957 & recorded his 1st great masterpiece: “Blue Train” bluenote.lnk.to/JohnColtrane…
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Covering the midterms? Get election-ready.
Join us Sept. 29 – Nov. 17 for Election Ready, a 4-part series hosted by the U.S. Journalist Assistance Network.
🗓️ Sept. 29: Kick off Session with @IWMF & @rcfp on legal readiness and newsroom raids.
🔗 bit.ly/ElectionReady-S1
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“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.”
In 101 seconds, UC Berkeley historian Trevor Jackson unravels how the economic system that shapes every aspect of our lives came to be — and why none of it was inevitable.
bit.ly/47alIJx
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love ‘A Love Supreme’ nytimes.com/2026/09/17/arts/… via @NYTimes
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(Sept 19) Wikidata Edit-a-thon @ the Schomburg Center. Create Wikidata items for the writers, works, organizations, and other entities referenced in the Schomburg Center’s Transcription Centre Interviews with African Writers audio collection. eventbrite.com/e/from-transc…
On this anniversary, I feel compelled to revise and expand on what I have said and written before about 9/11. My apologies to my friends who have heard this before. linkedin.com/pulse/my-reflec… via @LinkedIn
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I’m one of at least 28 former Washington Post journalists who have joined the @washingtonsun, which launched this morning. Paul Kane, Jeff Stein, Tom Sietsema and many other names will be familiar to Post readers —and we’ve got the Capital Weather Gang. Join us! washingtonsun.com/perspectiv…
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We’re number one — four years running. UC Berkeley tops PitchBook’s rankings for startups. Full story on Berkeley News: news.berkeley.edu/2026/09/01…
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Some news: USA Today is cutting staff and reorganizing its audience team. The changes are designed to address the depreciation of search traffic, which is “under pressure” as “platforms are increasingly keeping user experiences to themselves.” The internal memo:
Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/po… via @NYTimes
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The law funding the Pentagon contains grandiose plans, but it’s often vague and inscrutable. One line item this year, “Other Procurement, Air Force,” is slated to cost $32.6 billion.
We’re setting out to report on how this public money is being spent.
propublica.org/article/milit…
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A year ago, a midlevel Homeland Security Investigations agent proposed using the agency's databases to find noncitizens on voter rolls. The White House quickly got onboard. A new @ProPublica investigation reveals what happened next and how this unprecedented effort fell apart.🧵
According to the complaint, the officers realized only after Mr. Ludwig was handcuffed that they had entered the license plate number incorrectly. But they proceeded to arrest him anyway. nytimes.com/2026/08/12/us/sa… via @NYTimes
