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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra informed the Investigative Reporting Program, or IRP, of possible legal action in a Jan. 29 letter, after its reporters had gained access to a database of police officers’ arrests and convictions through a Public Record Act request, or PRA, as first reported by The Mercury News.
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Oakland-based newspaper East Bay Express laid off almost its entire editorial staff in January and replaced it with freelance workers because of financial difficulties, continuing a recent trend found at several news and media outlets.
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After more than 25 years at UC Berkeley, Lowell Bergman, investigative reporting professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, announced his retirement to the campus community.
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Investigative Reporting Productions, Inc., a nonprofit production company associated with the Graduate School of Journalism, established a formal affiliation with UC Berkeley over the weekend, according to a press release.
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In light of the movement of janitors fighting against the sexual harassment they experience at their job, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law Thursday that establishes workplace protection against sexual violence and harassment for custodial staff.
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Janitors who struggled in silence as survivors of harassment and assault in the workplace shared their experiences in support of state legislation via megaphone Thursday afternoon on the steps of Sproul Hall.
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I do not report happy stories. Whether it is torture and disappearances in Latin America or child murders in Mississippi, I have dedicated my career to uncovering the ugly. So when my reporting team and I received a tip at the Investigative Reporting Program that female farm workers were being
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James Risen, a New York Times reporter who is facing prison time for refusing to reveal his sources, will be speaking on campus Nov. 14 in a talk hosted by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism entitled “Prosecuting the Press”
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