Joan Bieder

Associate Dean Sr. Lecturer
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TEACHING Joan Bieder teaches core courses in television reporting and producing. Most recently she taught a two- semester cross -platform course on reporting in Israel and the Palestinian Territories that sent her students to the Middle East to report and produce stories. Before coming to Berkeley, she taught print and broadcast journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York and spent a decade before that as a producer at ABC-TV Network News. In her Introductory and Advanced Television sequence at Berkeley, students learn the basic skills of reporting, producing, shooting, editing and writing for non-fiction Television. In the two-semester Long Form Television course second year students produce their Masters Project. Over the past few years graduate students in these classes have traveled widely: to Afghanistan, Mexico, France, New Zealand, China, India, Ecuador, Cuba, Bolivia, Guatemala, Burma, Cambodia, Sierre Leone, Italy, Greece, Uganda, Brazil, Ghana, Israel and the West Bank; as well as throughout the Bay Area and the United States to practice their craft.

RESEARCH Joan Bieder spent several summers working as a consultant to television news companies in Singapore where she trained reporters and producers. In Singapore she began to study a minority community that resulted in a book, The Jews of Singapore, published by Suntree Media in November 2007. The Jews of Singapore traces the roots of Singapore Jewry from is Biblical, Baghdadi Sephardic origins to its Singapore beginnings around 1830 and on to the present. Her research was supported by grants from UC Berkeley and the Jacob Ballas Estate. She has produced a video on Singapore Jewry and presented numerous papers on the topic at academic conferences and Jewish Book Fairs in the United States, Canada, Israel and Singapore. Most recently, she presented papers entitled: "A Century of Changing Identities: Jewish Women of Singapore" at the Western Jewish Studies Conference in Denver in April 2009 and at the 15th Annual Jewish Studies Congress in Jerusalem in August 2009. In April 2011 she presented a paper at the Western Jewish Studies Conference in San Diego, CA entitled, “Singapore Jewry Under the Japanese Occupation 1941-1945”.

Published Stories & Highlights:

Sr. Lecturer Joan Bieder Publishes Book on the Jews of Singapore

Suntree Media

Sr. Lecturer Joan Bieder's new book, "The Jews of Singapore," documents the history and heritage of the Sephardic Jewish community that immigrated to Singapore from Baghdad 170 years ago. Illustrated with 450 images, maps and documents,the book is a detailed account of the orthodox Baghdadi community that still thrives in Singapore today and the contributions members made both to the colony and the Republic.

Einstein in Singapore

onthepage.org

For onthepage.org, Senior Lecturer Joan Bieder covers her discovery of a little-known and long forgotten trip that Professor Albert Einstein made to the Jewish community of Singapore in 1922. With accompanying photograph.

ABC TV's NOW Features J-School TV Stories

ABCTV digital system

ABC TV's digital service NOW will air stories from first-year television programs on Inside the Newsroom at 9 am and 3 pm for the week beginning February 25th. Check the ABC NOW site to learn how to view streaming video.

ABC NOW and Undergroundfilm.org Air Student Program

undergroundfilm.org

ABC NOW recently aired "Getting Out the Vote" -- a pre-election television program produced by the J-School's second year television long-form class. An archived version of the program is available at undergroundfilm.org.

Dispatch from Burma

FRONTLINE/World

For FRONTLINE/World, Professor Joan Bieder's dispatch from Burma titled "Can US Sanctions Bring Democracy to Burma." Includes text and photos of her reporting trip to Myanmar in summer 2004.

Courses Taught by Joan Bieder:

Fall 2002: J24 Frosh Seminar: Storytelling for TV News - Fall 2002

Fall 2002: J294 Master's Project Tutorial - Fall 2002

Fall 2002: J282 Introduction to TV News - Fall 2002

Fall 2002: J285 TV Magazine - Fall 2002

Spring 2003: J24 Frosh Seminar: Storytelling for TV News - Spring 2003

Spring 2003: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Spring 2003

Spring 2003: J285 Longform Television - Spring 2003

Spring 2003: J283 Advanced Reporting for TV - Spring 2003

Fall 2003: J24 Frosh Seminar: Storytelling for TV News - Fall 2003

Fall 2003: J282 Introduction to TV News - Fall 2003

Fall 2003: J285 Longform Television - Fall 2003

Fall 2003: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Fall 2003

Spring 2004: J24 FSP: Storytelling for TV News - Spring 2004

Spring 2004: J283 Advanced Reporting for TV - Spring 2004

Spring 2004: J285 Longform Television - Spring 2004

Spring 2004: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Spring 2004

Fall 2004: J24 FSP: Storytelling for TV News - Fall 2004

Fall 2004: J282 Introduction to TV News - Fall 2004

Fall 2004: J285 Longform Television - Fall 2004

Fall 2004: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Fall 2004

Spring 1999: J283 Reporting for Television - Spring 1999

Spring 1999: J285 TV Magazine - Spring 1999

Fall 1999: J282 Introduction to TV News - Fall 1999

Fall 1999: J298 Advanced TV News - Fall 1999

Fall 1999: J285 TV Magazine - Fall 1999

Spring 2000: J294 Master's Project Tutorial - Spring 2000

Spring 2000: J283 Reporting for Television - Spring 2000

Fall 2000: J294 Master's Project Tutorial - Fall 2000

Fall 2000: J282 Introduction to TV News - Fall 2000

Fall 2000: J298 Advanced TV News - Fall 2000

Spring 2001: J294 Master's Project Tutorial - Spring 2001

Spring 2001: J283 Advanced Reporting for TV - Spring 2001

Fall 2001: J24 Frosh Seminar: Storytelling for TV News - Fall 2001

Fall 2001: J294 Master's Project Tutorial - Fall 2001

Fall 2001: J282 Introduction to TV News - Fall 2001

Fall 2001: J285 TV Magazine - Fall 2001

Spring 2002: J24 Frosh Seminar: Storytelling for TV News - Spring 2002

Spring 2002: J283 Advanced Reporting for TV - Spring 2002

Spring 2002: J285 TV Magazine - Spring 2002

Spring 2005: J283 Advanced Reporting for TV - Spring 2005

Spring 2005: J285 Longform Television - Spring 2005

Spring 2005: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Spring 2005

Fall 2005: J285 Longform Television - Fall 2005

Fall 2005: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Fall 2005

Spring 2006: J283 Reporting for Television - Spring 2006

Spring 2006: J285 Long-form Television - Spring 2006

Spring 2006: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Spring 2006

Fall 2006: J282 Introduction to TV News - Fall 2006

Fall 2006: J285 Longform Television - Fall 2006

Fall 2006: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Fall 2006

Spring 2007: J283 Advanced Reporting for Television - Spring 2007

Spring 2007: J285 Long-form Television - Spring 2007

Spring 2007: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Spring 2007

Fall 2007: J24 FSP: Reporting and Producing for Television - Fall 2007

Fall 2007: J282 Introduction to TV News - Fall 2007

Fall 2007: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Fall 2007

Fall 2007: J285 Longform Television - Fall 2007

Spring 2008: J283 Reporting for Television - Spring 2008

Spring 2008: J285 Longform Television - Spring 2008

Spring 2008: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Spring 2008

Fall 2008: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Fall 2008

Fall 2008: J282 Introduction to TV News - Fall 2008

Fall 2008: J285 Longform Television - Fall 2008

Spring 2009: J283 Reporting for Television - Spring 2009

Spring 2009: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Spring 2009

Fall 2009: J282 Introduction to TV News - Fall 2009

Fall 2009: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Fall 2009

Spring 2010: J283 Reporting for Television - Spring 2010

Spring 2010: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Spring 2010

Spring 2010: J298 Israelis & Palestinians: The Peoples, Passions, Politics -- and Journalists Who Cover Them - Spring 2010

Fall 2010: J285 Longform Television - Fall 2010

Fall 2010: J234 International Reporting: Palestine and Israel - Fall 2010

Fall 2010: J294 Master's Project Seminar - Fall 2010

Fall 2010: J282 Introduction to TV News - Fall 2010

Spring 2011: J283 Reporting for Television - Spring 2011

Spring 2011: J219 Israel/Palestine Follow-up - Spring 2011

Spring 2012: J285 Longform Television - Spring 2012

Spring 2012: J283 Reporting for Television - Spring 2012

Fall 2012: J282 Introduction to TV News - Fall 2012

Spring 2013: J283 Reporting for Television - Spring 2013

Fall 2013: J282 Introduction to TV News - Fall 2013

Spring 2014: J283 Reporting for Television - Spring 2014