Photos and Audio editing by Julie Johnson. Audio recording by Maya Mirsky.
In just two months, the San Francisco Bay Area was hit by an oil spill, a 5.6 earthquake and a reminder from Southern California that urban wildfire remains an imminent danger each fall. Students at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism look beyond the breaking news in this disaster-prone metroplex and ask…are we prepared?
Part of a series on some of the Bay Area’s most controversial issues, this report profiles a Catholic abortion counselor through text and an audio slideshow.
ALCATRAZ — Families gathered at sunrise for a ceremony on Alcatraz Island commemorating the 1969 occupation of the island by Native groups. This year, they also celebrated the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the United Nations on September 13, 2007.
Watch a multimedia slideshow of the event.
