The Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley reports stories that expose injustice and abuse of power while training the next generation of journalists.

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ICYMI, IRP alum Cayla Mihalovich's ('24) audio documentary for The California Report and KQED aired last Friday. Listen to the story, "Forced Sterilization Survivors Undertake Own Healing After Feeling 'Silenced Again' by State" here: kqed.org/news/11982828/force…
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Reporter @hanfranjohan ('25) has an important story out—produced as an intern w/ @UCBerkeleyIRP's Aging in America project—about what aging parents of disabled children can do to better secure their child's financial future, @cnn. Photos @AmeeynMo ('25) shorturl.at/mjcVc
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Read the latest in the Investigative Reporting Program's coverage of Aging in America from @KateRaphael_ ('24)! This reporting was supported by a grant from the @TheSCANFndtn.
Kate Raphael's ('24) investigation into the confusion that often surrounds D.N.R.s, part of @UCBerkeleyIRP's "Aging in America" series, is a "Great Read" on today's @nytimes home page. Just terrific, public interest reporting. Bravo. nytimes.com/2024/08/26/well/…
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"A Baby Adopted, A Family Divided" is a @reveal audio doc reported by @UCBerkeleyIRP Managing Editor @bmyeung Andrew Becker with our Investigative Reporting Program about a wealthy Utah politician who adopts a child from a Northern Cheyenne reservation. revealnews.org/podcast/a-bab…
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Devastating investigative story from @UCBerkeley journalism alum and @UCBerkeleyIRP @SteelandBallast Brian Howey ('22) about two decades of police brutality in Mississippi.
“They kept tasing and tasing and tasing.” A band of sheriff’s deputies roamed poor neighborhoods in a Mississippi county for nearly two decades, barging into homes in the middle of the night and, witnesses say, torturing people for information. nyti.ms/46AOPDb
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The latest in the IRP's coverage of aging in America, @KateRaphael_ reports on how environmental pollution from oil and gas wells impacts the older adults who live near fracking operations.
6 Nov 2023
Of the nearly 18M Americans living near oil and gas wells, close to 3 million are 65 and older. For older adults, living in polluted areas has the potential for devastating, even life-ending, health problems. grist.org/health/pennsylvani…
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J-School @UCBerkeleyIRP's @Caylamihalovich ('24) investigates denial of reparations for ablations on @KQEDnews @KQEDForum. "You took my body. How dare you later on tell me that I don’t deserve to be one of the ones that gets reparations for it?” kqed.org/news/11965926/survi…
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@UCBerkeleyIRP is proud to have supported this powerful film by @ucbsoj alums Wangyuxuan Xu ('23) Wu Zhe ('23): GREEN GOLD LAND | Two Chinese immigrants hope for a brighter future in the cannabis cultivation industry, but their journey unfolds bitterly.latimes.com/shortdocs/000001…
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Congratulations to @megshutzer and @rachel_muel and editors @DavidBarstow & Paul Fishleder on their #DartAwards Honorable Mention for “Dying Inside: Chaos and Cruelty in Louisiana Juvenile Detention.”
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An investigation by Bay Area News Group, KQED, the California Reporting Project and IRP student reporters found that huge proportions of the people San Jose Police officers hurt or kill are mentally ill or under the influence. 🧵 Read the story: journalism.berkeley.edu/proj…
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I have a story out today in the @NewYorker. This is a story that asks you to think about, as one expert put it to me, "the ways that human trafficking intersects with the legitimate economy." newyorker.com/news/a-reporte…
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Congratulations to IRP alumni @marshall_anne ('22) & @margiecullen2 ('22) who are nominated for The Dan Jenkins Medal for Best Sportswriting Award for their story Is high school running in need of a reckoning? for Runner’s World. @ucbsoj moody.utexas.edu/centers/spo…
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In today's second @washingtonpost TikTok, I explained why the decision from the @USSupremeCourt Justice John Roberts on voting rights surprised the legal world tiktok.com/@washingtonpost/v…
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We were deeply saddened by the news of Daniel Ellsberg’s death today, at 92. We are honored that Dr. Ellsberg spoke at the Logan Symposium on April 28, and in his memory we have created the Daniel Ellsberg Whistleblower in Residence program. 🧵
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Watch the full panel “Prosecuting Whistleblowers/Criminalizing Journalism,” with Daniel Ellsberg, Reality Winner, and Trevor Timm here: youtube.com/watch?v=3N_4FqOe…
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