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Reporting on Violence is a blog put together by six graduate students of the advanced multimedia class at UC-Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. The class focuses on modernizing crime reporting. This means we take a solution-oriented, contextual approach to reporting about crime in Alameda County. We're reporting on two types of violence: domestic violence and violence against those who are homeless. We are also looking into the prevalence of guns in homicides. In addition, Yoram Savion is working on developing the blog for reporting on youth violence with a health and safety approach. He is currently working with Oakland youth out of the Youth UpRising center in East Oakland to train young citizen journalist to report on stories in their neighborhoods with web-based multimedia tools. We are: |
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Brian Aguilar - Brian Aguilar has over five years of experience working in the online and news industry. His background includes web production, video editing, multimedia reporting, international reporting, newswriting, as well as content and project management. Mr. Aguilar's work has been published by several print and online publications, including Military.com, WashingtonPost.com and Contra Costa Times. Now attending UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, he is looking to expand his capacity as a new media journalist and editor. To learn more about Mr. Aguilar, visit his LinkedIn profile. |
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Kevin Jones - Kevin Jones is freelance multimedia journalist attending UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Before starting school, he edited and reported for two weekly newspapers in California. When he is not reporting on gun control issues in California, he is making pods for Current TV, filing reports and maintaining the Website for North Gate Radio, recording and reviewing bands for his blog Lemon Session, reporting on elephant seal research for TOPP, or catching up on television shows with his wife, Lily. |
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Yoram Savion - Yoram is an artist, journalist and educator working in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a multimedia artist, his work has been screened at the Berkeley Pacific Film Archive and exhibited at the Worth Ryder Gallery at UC Berkeley and at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco (recently in the Grounded? 16th Annual Juried Exhibition). As a journalist he has worked for KPFA Radio and is collaborating with the Oakland Tribune to facilitate web-based multimedia reporting workshops for Oakland youth. Since 2006, he has been working with Professor Jane Stevens from the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism to develop a website reporting on youth violence with a health and safety approach. Yoram recently finished his undergraduate degree in "New Media, Art and Social Change" at UC Berkeley. His research "Space, Image and Identity: Praxis of Imagination for Youth and Social Change" was published in the Berkeley McNair Research Journal Spring 2008. As an educator, Yoram is currently working at Youth UpRising in East Oakland as a media literacy and production instructor. Together with his team of students in the program he started, Youth UpRising Media Literacy & Production (YU Media-LP), he created a photo/video mural about TURF Dancing currently on display through August 17th 2008 at the Oakland Museum of California in the "Cool Remixed" main gallery exhibit (see review and photos). YU Media-LP is a training and employment program for Oakland youth interested in learning and working in multimedia production for the web. See more on MySpace and YouTube. |
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Laurie Burkitt - Laurie Burkitt is a print journalist studying at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. She has worked as a business reporter for Bloomberg in Hong Kong and as a research assistant for The Washington Post's editorial and oped pages. Originally from Oklahoma, Laurie has lived in China and hopes to return there after graduation. |
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Drew Himmelstein - Drew is a second-year student at the graduate school focusing on multimedia and radio reporting. She has worked as a news producer and reporter for KWMR, a community radio station in Point Reyes Station, CA, and her work has also been broadcast on KALX. She has also been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, New American Media, and the Washington Blade. |
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Danielle McNamara -Danielle has more than four years experience covering crime and public safety for daily newspapers, including the Kansas City Star, the Contra Costa Times and the Wilmington News Journal. Danielle's now in her final year at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where she concentrates on multimedia reporting and producing. |
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Eric Zassenhaus - Eric is the co-publisher of Instant City: A Literary Exploration of San Francisco. The former Web Director at City Lights Books, Culture Editor at Clamor Magazine and Art Director for Tikkun, Eric has written for a number of magazines, websites, and radio programs. He's currently in his final year at UC Berkeley's Grad School for Journalism, where his concentration is in new media and multimedia journalism. |
