Julie Johnson

Julie Johnson is a freelance journalist and student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. This site is an aggregation of her published print and multimedia stories.

From 2004 to 2007 Julie worked with San Francisco-based New America Media, a national ethnic media news service, on the editorial, graphic design and communication teams. She launched a monthly health advice column for ethnic publications statewide, which runs in more than 50 media outlets. She also covered stories ranging from how a doctor from El Salvador became a hospital interpreter in Oakland to how the black community rallied to get a power plant shut down in San Francisco and summarized headlines news from the black press. In 2007 she worked on “Disappeared in America,” an investigative reporting project that examined the individual stories of people being deported under laws passed after 9/11.

Prior to NAM Julie was a news intern with the San Francisco Bay Guardian and KQED-FM Radio News. She began reporting at the Oberlin Review, the weekly newspaper for Oberlin College, where she was a reporter, layout artist, photographer and eventually served as co-editor-in-chief. She graduated with a BA in East Asian studies and creative writing in 2002. Julie expects to earn her MJ in 2009.

View Julie’s resume and a sample of clips.

Contact Julie at: j u l i e j o h n s o n 1 8 2[ at ]g m a i l . c o m