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Stories published by J-School Faculty and Instructors
Adam Hochschild: The Trial of Thomas LubangaIn the second of three magazine pieces from his trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Hochschild observes former child soldiers watching the International Criminal Court's first trial.
Ken Light: Ken Light Talks About Sebastiao Salgado's Work
Ken Light does a walk through of the images of Sebastiao Salgado on view at the Brower Center in Berkeley, California.
Lowell Bergman: In The News: Walter Cronkite
Following the death of CBS newsman Walter Cronkite, PBS Frontline highlighted Professor Lowell Bergman's 2006 interview with Cronkite for the four-part documentary series "News War" produced out of the Journalism School.
Adam Hochschild: Rape of the Congo
Lecturer Adam Hochschild went to the Democratic Republic of Congo in June to work with a "60 Minutes" crew and to write several magazine pieces. The first appears in The New York Review of Books.
Qiang Xiao: Graft Inquiry in Namibia Finds Clues in China
J-School's China Digital Times breaks the news on The New York Times about China's Internet censors blocked news Thursday about a graft probe in Namibia involving a firm linked to the son of President Hu Jintao.
Qiang Xiao: China's Media Strategy
Anchor Lisa Mullins of the BBC speaks with adjunct professor Xiao Qiang about China's strategy for handling media coverage of the protests in western China.
Qiang Xiao: China Applies New Strategies to Control Flow of Information
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang was interviewed by New York Times' Michael Wines on Chinese government's handling information control in current Xinjiang unrest.
Qiang Xiao: China delay 'victory for public opinion'
ForAFP, adjunct professor Xiao Qiang commented on China's decision to delay the installation of Internet filtering software on computers.
Cynthia Gorney: Ripped (or Torn Up?)
For The New York Times Magaine, Cynthia Gorney profiles the international tennis champion Rafael Nadal, whose most serious battle right now is with his own beaten-up knees.
Qiang Xiao: China blocks Google services
For The Guardian, adjunct professor Xiao Qiang provides comments on disruption of Google search functions and Gmail by China's censors.
Lowell Bergman: Newspapers are Dead. Now What?
On Monday, June 29th Logan Professor Lowell Bergman will join Phil Bronstein of the San Francisco Chronicle and others to discuss the changing world of journalism at The Commonwealth Club
Qiang Xiao: Civic-Minded Chinese Find a Voice Online
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang is interviewed by Michael Wines for the New York Times about the recent legal case of Deng Yujiao, which generated national online protests to corrupted officials in China.
Cynthia Gorney: Anti-Abortion Rhetoric Still Strong
The murder of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller has put the abortion debate back in the national spotlight. Journalism professor Cynthia Gorney, author of Articles of Faith: A History of the Abortion Wars discusses the state of the abortion debate on NPR.
Lowell Bergman: The Big Shift
On May 28th, 2009 Logan Professor Lowell Bergman was a featured speaker at an inaugural event hosted by the creators of the annual "TED" conference. The theme of Bergman's talk was "Deep Journalism: Investigative Reporting in a Post-Profit Era."
Qiang Xiao: Rebuilding China's Moral Foundation
On the 20 years anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre, adjunct professor Xiao Qiang published this essay on The Huffington Post.
Qiang Xiao: The Roar of Dissent Online
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang writes on the New York Times on what forms of dissent are alive in China now.
Qiang Xiao: China Tighten Internet Access Around Tiananmen Anniversary
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang talked about the internet control as Tiananmen twenty years anniversary approaches on the PBS Newshour.
Mimi Chakarova: Iraq: Living in Hiding
For PBS' Frontline/World "Conflict Zones" Series, photojournalist Mimi Chakarova and war correspondent Anna Badkhen report about the conditions for Iraqi women six years after the US invasion. The multimedia piece explores a secret network of shelters for victims of rape, abuse and reprisal killings.
Mimi Chakarova: The Price of Sex Website
After six years of reporting on sex trafficking in Eastern Europe and parts of the Middle East, lecturer Mimi Chakarova launches THE PRICE OF SEX – a multimedia series featuring interviews with young women sold into prostitution against their will.
Neil Henry: Students Leading Way For News Industry
Dean Neil Henry published an Op-Ed article in the San Francisco Chronicle extolling student work in digital media, in tribute to the Class of 2009.
Qiang Xiao: Can the Internet Bring Democracy to China?
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang gave an interview to Jayshree Bajori of the Council on Foreign Relations, says strong Internet voices are emerging in favor of democratic reforms in China.
Lowell Bergman: Corruption Case Exposes Scope of Bribery in Nigeria
This NewsHour segment is just one component of a nine-month investigation on international bribery by PBS FRONTLINE in partnership with the Logan Investigative Reporting Program chaired by Professor Lowell Bergman.
Mark Danner: The Paradoxes of the Torture Scandal
Here's a question: When was the last time American officials waterboarded a detainee? Well, that would be 2003 -- six years ago. Here's another: When did Americans first find out about it? That would be 2004 -- five years ago. Professor Mark Danner writes about the torture scandal in an article for the Washington Post.
Lowell Bergman: Lowell Bergman to speak at Macalester
Logan Professor Lowell Bergman is interviewed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune in advance of his April 20th talk about the future of investigative reporting with MPR's Kerri Miller in St. Paul, MN.
Lowell Bergman: International Bribery on the Grand Scale
Logan Professor Lowell Bergman will discuss his recent PBS Frontline documentary "Black Money" at the Marin Chapter of the World Affairs Council , Wednesday, May 27 at 6:30pm.
Lowell Bergman: Lowell Bergman Talks About "Black Money"
April 6, 2009 - KQED Forum with Michael Krasny talks with UC Berkeley journalism professor and investigative reporter Lowell Bergman about "Black Money," his new documentary for PBS Frontline on the use of bribery by international corporations.
Mark Danner: The ICRC Torture Report: What It Means
For the New York Review of Books
Qiang Xiao: China blocks YouTube, again
Beijing correspondent Peter Ford interviewed adjunct professor Xiao Qiang for the Christian Science Monitor about how video sharing sites such as YouTube threatening the government control of online content.
Qiang Xiao: YouTube Says China Blocks Site
The Wall Street Journal interviewed adjunct professor Xiao Qiang about reasons behind the Chinese government blocking YouTube.
Qiang Xiao: YouTube Blocked in China, Google Says
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang provides analysis to New York Times technology correspondent Miguel Helet about China's blocking YouTube site.
Lowell Bergman: How To Fix American Journalism
March 12, 2009-The Huffington Post highlights the UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program chaired by Professor Lowell Bergman as one of the successful media partnerships at schools across the country. "More established models include Lowell Bergman's UC Berkeley students working on projects for the New York Times and Frontline..."
Cynthia Gorney: A Feel For the Water
For The New Yorker, Cynthia Gorney profiles U.C. Berkeley's international swimming champion Natalie Coughlin.
Cynthia Gorney: Chicken Soup Nation
For The New Yorker, Cynthia Gorney explores the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" publishing empire.
Cynthia Gorney: The Urge to Merge
For For The New York Times Magazine, Cynthia Gorney examines on-road hostilities between traffic lineuppers, whom she regards as civilized and evolved, and sidezoomers, who are scourge-of-earthish even though some of them are her best friends.
Mark Danner: Tales from Torture's Dark World
For The New York Times Sunday Week in Review, an exclusive report by Mark Danner on the ICRC report on The Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody.
Mark Danner: US Torture: Tales from the Black Sites
An exclusive report by Mark Danner, for The New York Review of Books, on the ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High-Value" Detainees in CIA Custody.
Qiang Xiao: A Dirty Pun Tweaks China's Online Censors
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang talked to the New York Times about the most recent phenomenon of online resistance to censorship in Chinese cyberspace.
Qiang Xiao: Chinese Learn Limits of Online Freedom
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang talked with the New York Times' Beijing correspondent Andrew Jacobs about the current internet crackdown in China.
Qiang Xiao: In China, a Grass-Roots Rebellion
The Washington Post's Beijing correspondent Ariana Eunjung Cha interviewed adjunct professor Xiao Qiang about the recent signature campaign of the pro-democracy petition Charter 08 in China.
Qiang Xiao: China's 'Netizens' Take On the Government
Time Magazine reporter Austin Ramzy interviewed Adjunct Professor Xiao Qiang about a top government internet censorship official became the target of the Chinese Web vigilantes.
Qiang Xiao: Chinese Sites Cut Communism, Dissent From Obama Speech
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang commented on China's filtering of Obama's speech for For AFP.
Mark Danner: Taking Stock of the Terror War
To contemplate a prewar map of Baghdad — as I do the one before me, with sectarian neighborhoods traced out in blue and red and yellow — is to look back on a lost Baghdad, a Baghdad of our dreams...(Based on a lecture delivered by Mark Danner at the Tenth Asia Security Conference, New Delhi. March 2008)
Mark Danner: Weapons of Mass Destruction and Other Imaginative Acts
For the New York Times, Mark Danner reviews Ron Suskind's "The Way of the World:
A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism"
Mark Danner: 2008: The Weight of the Past
Mark Danner's contribution to the New York Review of Book's a symposium on the upcoming election entitled "What's at Stake." (October 6, 2008)
Mark Danner: Obama & Sweet Potato Pie
You would think first of all of a village fair: the entire community of Germantown, Northwest Philly, taking itself up on the brightest of bright sunny fall days and moving en masse, clumps of people—groups of young men in the obligatory hoodies and low-riding jeans, moms pushing strollers, dads lugging car seats... Professor Mark Danner writes in The New York Review of Books.
Mark Danner: Frozen Scandal
Scandal is our growth industry. Revelation of wrongdoing leads not to definitive investigation, punishment, and expiation but to more scandal. Permanent scandal. Frozen scandal... Professor Mark Danner writes in The New York Review of Books
Joan Bieder: Sr. Lecturer Joan Bieder Publishes Book on the Jews of Singapore
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.
Qiang Xiao: Cyber hunters in China in for crash landing
Adjunct professor Xiao Qiang commenting on China's new law to curb the excesses of online "distributive investigative behavior" in Straits Times Singapore
Robert Gunnison: Sex Offenders And The Challenge Of Parole
When felons leave state prison, they live under restricted conditions for about three years and are monitored by parole agents. These agents manage more than 120,000 parolees throughout the state. As part of a series on KALW's Crosscurrents on convict re-entry, Rina Palta, class of 2009, spent a day with a sex offender parole unit in Alameda County.
Robert Gunnison: Sex Offenders And The Challenge Of Parole
When felons leave state prison, they live under restricted conditions for about three years and are monitored by parole agents. These agents manage more than 120,000 parolees throughout the state. As part of a series on KALW's Crosscurrents on convict re-entry, Rina Palta, class of 2009, spent a day with a sex offender parole unit in Alameda County.