Investigative Reporting Program

California allocated $6.87 million in its 2023-24 budget for UC Berkeley’s development of the Police Records Access Project — a comprehensive, statewide database of police misconduct and use-of-force records.

At a Campus Conversations event Tuesday, campus faculty discussed creating a new wave of journalism through the diversification of students.

For the past year, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism students Ellie Lightfoot and Kathryn Hurd have been investigating the background of Steven Carrillo, an alleged murderer with connections to alt-right extremist groups in the "Boogaloo" movement, as part of their work with the campus Investigative Reporting Program, or IRP.

UC Berkeley professor Geeta Anand has been appointed interim dean of the campus Graduate School of Journalism — the first woman and woman of color to fulfill the position.

The New York Times announced its partnership with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism to collaborate on coverage of COVID-19's impact on all 58 California counties. The idea came about shortly after the Bay Area enacted a shelter-in-place order.

Netflix recently produced a six-part documentary series in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program. 

Campus announced its search for a new dean for the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, or J-School, on March 13 in a campuswide email. The new dean will replace current dean Edward Wasserman.

Barstow won Pulitzer Prizes for his work unearthing evidence of President Donald Trump’s “tax dodges" in 2019, documenting Walmart’s use of bribery in its efforts to expand in Mexico and exposing the Pentagon’s underground tactics involving news coverage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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.

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.