Alumni Spotlight: Rong-Gong Lin II

For Rong-Gong Lin II, journalism began as an excuse to ask important people a lot of questions. After almost 18 years of reporting for the Los Angeles Times, however, it has become so much more.
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For Rong-Gong Lin II, journalism began as an excuse to ask important people a lot of questions. After almost 18 years of reporting for the Los Angeles Times, however, it has become so much more.
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Nearly 21 years ago, The Daily Californian ran a full-page advertisement titled “Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks Is a Bad Idea–and Racist Too.”
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Although my dad tried to play off his home renovation projects as mere ego-boosts, his money-saving strategy taught me something money could never buy.
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We are not the “model minority” that sits patiently and waits to be told what to do. We are not the people who can be relied on to stay quiet and feeble.
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Overheard at UC Berkeley has never endorsed an ASUC candidate. Except for one time.
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Fossil Free UC has stated that continued fossil fuel extraction placed the climate, and millions of the world’s most vulnerable people, in harm’s way, but the UC Board of Regents continued to invest in them.
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This year’s Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists include two UC Berkeley alumni who found their roots in journalism at The Daily Californian.
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Hundreds of UC Berkeley students, faculty and aspiring journalists filled Sibley Auditorium on Friday to hear New York Times, or The Times, executive editor Dean Baquet discuss modern journalism and the rapidly changing journalism industry with UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Dean Edward Wasserman.
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This lawsuit comes amid a federal lawsuit against Harvard University, which is similarly accused of discriminating against Asian American students in its admissions practices.
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Jake Cannon is a UC Berkeley alumnus and host of the podcast “The Look Back Machine,” which features documentary-style retellings of various forgotten Hollywood stories, tales described as “the overlooked, the disregarded, and misremembered.”
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