Category Archives: Journalism
New Berkeley newspaper set to launch in September
Four months after the demise of the newsprint version of the Berkeley Daily Planet, a new weekly newspaper devoted to Berkeley is set to launch in the fall.
The Berkeley Times will focus on the community made up of families with school-age children with an emphasis on public school education and kids’ sports, although more general news on the arts, crime and real estate will also be included.
The Berkeley Times is being launched by R. Todd Kerr, currently the … Continue reading »
Berkeleyside launches partnership with Bay Citizen
The Bay Citizen, a non-profit news website dedicated to independent reporting on civic and community issues in the Bay Area, went live today. Berkeleyside is happy to announce that we are one of the site’s founding media partners.
The arrangement will see The Bay Citizen publishing selected Berkeleyside articles, such as the one today on the eagerly awaited Mark Twain autobiography coming out of UC Berkeley. The partnership will, we hope, help broaden Berkeleyside’s readership and … Continue reading »
That Money Machine: Michael Lewis
Berkeley author Michael Lewis named his most recent book about the 2008 economic meltdown The Big Short.
He could have called it The Upside (in a nod to a previous book, The Blind Side.)
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine sold a phenomenal 60,000 copies the week after it was released on March 21. By early April, fans had bought 162,000 copies of the book, Jason Boog writes on the publishing website Galley … Continue reading »
Berkeley business is model for new journalism
It could be a scene right out of any decent movie about newspapers: veteran reporters and editors sit around a big table and bounce around news ideas.
“It gives me chills,” one of the top editors says about a pending news investigation.
“The reporting is so amazing,” responds another.
A movie set? No. A memory from long ago when newspapers actually had the funds to do in-depth reporting? No.
It’s actually a description of a scenario that happened recently … Continue reading »
Reports from the US-Mexico border: Tyche Hendricks
The recent passage of a law in Arizona that gives police expanded power to ask people for documents proving their legal status is just the latest expression of frustration over immigration. It’s a question that no administration, Democrat or Republican, seems inclined to address.
Tyche Hendricks, who teaches international reporting at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, spent the last few years covering the borderlands straddling the US-Mexico border for the San Francisco Chronicle. She will be talking … Continue reading »
“Parenthood”: Might Berkeleyside get a look-in?
I realize Parenthood has largely abandoned any attempts at credibility where its supposed Berkeley location is concerned. But how hard can it be for a production crew to get a copy of a real Bay Area newspaper on the set?
On this week’s episode, character Adam is seen — very briefly — scanning the front page of his local paper with his morning coffee (before he greets his morose teenage daughter, Haddie, who has just broken up … Continue reading »
Quentin Hardy talks robbery on The Daily Show
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Moment of Zen – Goldman Sachs Fraud Analogies www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party … Continue reading »
MediaBugs, Berkeley-based start-up, launches today
Today marks the launch of MediaBugs, an online error-reporting service based in Berkeley which will help to monitor Bay Area media for errors and problems.
MediaBugs is the brainchild of Berkeley resident Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon, and author of two books: Dreaming in Code and Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming and Why It Matters. Advisers on the project include Dan Gillmor, Bill Gannon and Lane Becker.
Unlike fact-checking operation Politifact, which … Continue reading »
Berkeley tweeters part 2: They’re out there
Earlier this month we took a look at well-known Berkeley tweeters. We identified those who do — among them Dave Winer and Markos Moulitsas — those who sort of do, such as Michael Pollan, and then we compiled a wish-list of noted Berkeley people who we hope will take to the Twitter-waves.
Of course, our readers then weighed in with many good suggestions of Berkeleyites to follow on Twitter, as well as adding a … Continue reading »
Berkeley and the 1906 earthquake
Sunday is the 104th anniversary of the massive 1906 San Francisco earthquake and SFGate.com is honoring the occasion by running 39 pictures from Berkeley author Richard Schwartz’s book on the subject.
Earthquake Exodus 1906, Berkeley Responds to the San Francisco Refugees discusses – in words and pictures – how numerous San Francisco residents came to Berkeley to escape the flames. Many of them stayed, transforming the town from a small community into a bustling city.
The … Continue reading »
