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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 »
The Berkeley Wire: 4.14.10
Bay Area News Group wins top journalism award for East Bay expose [Coco Times]
Police misconduct allegations after student arrest at car crash [Daily Cal]
On location for Aurora’s “John Gabriel Borkman” [Stark Silver Creek]
Berkeley Lab scientists create “molecular paper” [E Science News]
Center for Investigative Reporting wins $440K community health grant [SF Biz Times]
New show in town: “Girlfriend” opens tonight at the Rep [Berkeley Rep]
Photo: American Apparel on Telegraph by kukkurovaca/Berkeleyside Flickr pool.
Berkeley reporters to dig into unsolved Civil Rights murders
The Berkeley-based Center for Investigative Reporting has just announced that it will launch investigations into a number of unsolved, racially-motivated murders committed during the Civil Rights era.
CIR will team up with Paperny Films of Vancouver, WNET of New York, National Public Radio, the National Archives, and other organization to form the Civil Rights Cold Case Project. Using traditional and multi-media journalistic techniques, the project plans to look into the unsolved murders and create web videos, … Continue reading »
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