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News21: 'Hunting Corruption'

University of California, Berkeley

Date Awarded: 10/01/11
Amount: $115,000
Grant Period: 10/01/11 to 06/30/13
Focus Area: Journalism & Media Innovation
Category: Journalism Training and Education

Project Links

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Grantee Contact

Lowell Bergman

Berkeley, CA

Featured Media

The Ration, a News21 Investigation by UC Berkeley students

To support Hunting Corruption, the independent News21 program at the University of California Berkeley, part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative for the Future of Journalism Education

Project Team

Lowell Bergman

Lowell Bergman is a producer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series "Frontline" and the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor of Investigative Reporting at the Graduate School of Journalism where he has taught a seminar dedicated to investigative reporting for over 20 years. Bergman is also a consultant to “Frontline”, advising them on the expansion of their hard news reporting, as well as an advisor to non-profit investigative news organizations like the Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica, and a board member of theOrganized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project . While teaching and working with “Frontline”, Bergman was an investigative correspondent for the New York Times from 1998 until 2008.