The Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has for the second year running recognized Berkeleyside as providing excellent local journalism. At an awards ceremony last night at the San Francisco City Club, the organization announced Berkeleyside as the winner of the Community Journalism (print/text) category in its 2014 Excellence in Journalism Awards. The judges said they […]
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Berkeleyside wins Excellence in Journalism award
The Berkeleyside team at the conclusion of its recent Uncharted festival. From left: Lance Knobel, Frances Dinkelspiel, Siciliana Trevino, Wendy Cohen, Tracey Taylor and Emilie Raguso. Photo: Pete Rosos The Society of Professional Journalists’ Northern California chapter has awarded Berkeleyside its Excellence in Journalism award for community journalism. The award was made for Berkeleyside’s coverage […]
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News group serves up hidden costs of hamburgers
The average American eats three burgers a week. The Berkeley-based Center for Investigative Reporting explores the real price of cheap beef in their new animation short The Hidden Costs of Hamburgers.
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Berkeley will spend up to $50K after police chief blunder
BPD Chief Michael Meehan: two outside agencies have been hired by the city after a mistake he made on March 9 The city of Berkeley has hired a public relations firm at a cost of $24,000 to review the police department’s media policies, bringing the price tag to $49,000 for Police Chief Michael Meehan’s decision […]
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Executive order stymies Daily Cal’s bid to get funding
The Daily Californian is independent of the university it covers, a sticking point for student government A bid by UC Berkeley’s ailing student newspaper, The Daily Californian, to source direct financial support from the university’s student body has been felled, following an eleventh-hour decision by student government group ASUC to make student voting on the […]
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Daily Californian: Blank page might be harbinger of future
The front page of today's Daily Californian The Daily Californian has been printing news about UC Berkeley and the Bay Area for 141 years. But Tuesday’s edition is out of the ordinary: the top half of the front page, the area colloquially known as “above the fold,” has been left blank. The deliberate lack of […]
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Michael Pollan: New food rules, but no need to be neurotic
Author Michael Pollan teams up with artist Maira Kalman — and several reader/eaters — in the new edition of “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.”
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Diversity bake sale brings out protesters, choppers, media
The media, both local and national, have jumped on the “diversity bake sale” story. Photo: Tracey Taylor The media, both local and national, have jumped on the “diversity bake sale” story. Photo: Tracey Taylor The helicopters flying over central Berkeley today were just one sign of the media frenzy that has surrounded the announcement by […]
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Did Berkeleyside err publishing a nude photo?
Cyclists convene at People's Park before participating in the Naked Bike Ride Day. Photo: Robert Mills Berkeleyside set off a storm of controversy on Monday when it posted a video of a group of naked bicyclists riding through Berkeley. The shot displayed on Berkeleyside’s front page showed a naked man’s genitals and a naked woman’s […]
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Is the web skewing our world view? An author says yes
Eli Pariser. Photo: jdlasica Eli Pariser calls himself an “online organizer and disorganizer,” and, as the former executive director of Berkeley’s MoveOn.org and founder of Avaaz.org, he’s had plenty of chances to use the web to encourage social change. All that experience reaching out through the Internet led Pariser to start scrutinizing how we get […]
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Are plastics good or bad? An author explains
When Susan Freinkel decided to write a book about plastic, she vowed to spend an entire day not touching the stuff. The plan lasted about ten seconds. After she woke up, she walked into the bathroom to use the toilet. She suddenly realized the seat was plastic, which meant she couldn’t sit down. Freinkel quickly […]
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Thousands of schools at risk during earthquake
Berkeley Unified School District Headquarters A team of California Watch reporters and researchers spent the last 19 months investigating how the state enforces the Field Act, a strict seismic safety law that is supposed to protect school children at public schools. California Watch is partnering with dozens of California newspapers, television stations, radio outlets, and […]