Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

I'm so excited about this event I even learned how to set up live streaming on YouTube after studiously avoiding it my entire life. Come FOIA with us!

We are facing a comprehensive campaign from the federal government to undermine our elections, and it’s something we all need to be prepared for heading into 2026. Join us for a live virtual event on protecting the integrity of the vote on Thursday, September 18, at 3 p.m. ET. RSVP: bit.ly/46gWk3V

On the third Wednesday of every month, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Research Team and guest scholars invite you to explore the latest findings in Wikimedia-related research, livestreamed and open to all. See what is shaping Wikimedia in this vital platform for transparent exchange ➡️ w.wiki/uJn

Looking forward to the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism event tonight celebrating the work of photographer Jim Marshall chronicling the early years of The Grateful Dead. journalism.berkeley.edu/event/the-gr...

“But nobody has told us anything. We’re just out here doing it ourselves.”

A Friday evening launch of a new role at OpenNews? Yes! Your reward for being terminally online at the start of a 3-day weekend. 😉 We need a community manager to help us with our peer support and connection work. It's part time, flexible and includes our Press Forward project! Apply by Sept. 15!

I’m thrilled that Monica Campbell has agreed to be the next director of the California Local News Fellowship at @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social. journalism.berkeley.edu/monica-campb...

Jerry Adler did not start acting until he was in his 60s. There is always time for a second (or third) act. apnews.com/article/jerr...

Want to see us at SXSW? Vote for our panel, New Era of Media: Disruptors in Political Reporting, featuring community centered media organizations (including Capital B!):

This philanthropic commitment brings hope, but unfortunately, this is just a start. Public media needs broad support from everyday people, too. It provides vital connections to information in communities that sometimes don’t have other reliable sources. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

This does nothing to strengthen our country, improve lives or propel us toward a better shared future. It diminishes us. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.

#ICYMI: We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.” W/ @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org

“Being here, even with legal status, is still considered a privilege, not a right. And that privilege can be taken away at any moment — just for doing our jobs," said @maritzafelix.bsky.social, founder of @conectaarizona.bsky.social. niemanreports.org/immigrant-me...

PBS was the first television I ever remember watching, and it shaped my love for books and being curious about the world in foundational ways.

Secret Service agents searched and read through Cincinnati Enquirer reporter @eringlynn.bsky.social’s notebook, which included unpublished work product, during a security screening ahead of an event with Vice President @jd-vance-1.bsky.social in Lima, Ohio, on June 24.

The Police Records Access Project database, built by UC Berkeley and Stanford and distributed by news outlets including the Chronicle, allows searches by name, agency or keyword.

The Police Records Access Project database contains roughly 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases in CA. cal.news/4lYX58u

Today, we celebrate the incredible work on the Police Records Access Project – a first-of-its-kind database in the nation. It took years of work by a multidisciplinary team of journalists, data scientists, lawyers and civil rights advocates. Learn more: bit.ly/4m5uDlu

Oh heck yeah, a project I helped get off the ground a bunch of years ago finally launched! tl;dr: In 2018 California changed its laws so that police disciplinary files were public records. It finally provided a window into repeated misconduct by officers some of whom moved from agency to agency.

Congratulations and thank you to the many people, programs and institutions that have brought the Police Records Access Project into being. This represents the best of journalism, hard work, collaboration and service to the communities in which we live. journalism.berkeley.edu/police-recor...

Ready to turn up? Our Harlem Week playlist is live and waiting for you! Get the party started with the hottest tracks. Save it on Spotify and keep the energy flowing. Listen now: https://bit.ly/45e3MMH

Reuters Exclusive: The Trump administration has terminated more than half of all federal funding for gun violence prevention programs in the U.S., cutting $158 million in grants that had been directed to groups in cities like New York, LA, Chicago & Baltimore. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Grace and Gabriella are getting an introduction to the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social campus this week. #GoBears

A new group of early-career journalists and newsrooms were selected for the 2025-2027 California Local News Fellowship! Thank you, California, for supporting local journalism — an essential public service. Congrats to our fellows and newsrooms! fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/cafellows/ne...

LA Times journalist James Rainey on California's groundbreaking support for local journalism through our @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Journalism and the @maynardinstitute.bsky.social: "Accurate news and information has become an increasingly fleeting resource." www.latimes.com/california/n...

Mark your calendars for *Friday, Sept. 26* and join us for "Journalism Ethics in a Fracturing World," our free conference focused on journalism ethics in the face of fragmentation, increasing authoritarianism and disappearing and unreliable data. ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2025/07/28/j...

SCOOP: The Trump Administration directed the Muir Woods National Monument to remove language it had added to its interpretative signs detailing women's contributions to the monument and the racist ideologies of some of its founders. 19thnews.org/2025/07/publ...

A Founding Father of NPR Worries About Its Fate www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/b...

📚 New GIJN guide: Investigating Caste Explore how journalists can report on caste-based discrimination and power structures — with tips, tools, and case studies from around the world. 🔍 Read the guide: https://twp.ai/9PTQTX

Now 85% funded! Help us get the rest of the way there.

📰 Immigrant Media: Serving Communities at a Critical Moment Outlets like @thehaitiantimes.bsky.social @conectaarizona.bsky.social @indiacurrents.bsky.social & Epicenter NYC are under increasing political and financial pressure at a time when they are needed most. niemanreports.org/immigrant-me...

Is Objectivity Still Worth Pursuing? By Julie Gerstein and Margaret Sullivan. www.cjr.org/analysis/is-... An overview of where we are with this troublesome term, given that the next generation mostly sees through it. No jargon and no paywall. Thus good for regular folk. (Fair warning: I am quoted.)

So sad to see, in the cesspool of negativity on X/Twitter, responses to my Substack on the new Superman movie w/hateful responses to the idea he is an immigrant. Though its been known for decades that his story was an allegory for immigrant experience. https://loom.ly/WjESMhU

I enjoyed connecting with D.C.-area alumni of @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social Thanks to everyone who braved that intense weather, to @npr.org for providing a venue and to alum @tamarakeithnpr.bsky.social and Ron Nixon, two of our Journalism Advisory Committee members, for hosting.

1/ @vermontgmg.bsky.social was kind enough to let us republish his fantastic piece on how scary giving $200 billion to a run away, ill-disciplined, and ill-trained force is. It is a must read: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Reminder: We've got a list of what issues and topics our reporters are covering during the second Trump administration. Current and former federal workers, we take source privacy very seriously. Here's how to get in touch securely ⤵️

A North Texas man from Mesquite who has made it his life's mission to find missing people is helping others search for their loved ones following this weekend's flooding along the Guadalupe River. Read More👉 www.tpr.org/environment/202...

North Carolina officials rescued dozens of people after Tropical Depression Chantal dumped up to 10 inches of rain in parts of the state, bringing significant flooding that inundated homes, closed highways, trapped drivers and pushed rivers up to near historic levels. https://trib.al/4BqheAM

Both the east and westbound bridges on US 98 over the Pearl River in Mississippi are now closed. The aging eastbound bridge has been closed for months for replacement, with all traffic using the westbound bridge. But now, a "void" has been discovered under the westbound bridge—closing it, too.

It's timeeeeeee! With each ring of the Campanile bells, Homecoming draws nearer — time to reunite with your Cal family! Join us for Alumni and Parents Weekend at Homecoming, October 3–5, 2025: homecoming.berkeley.edu #CalHC #BerkeleyTime

A father who died saving his family, children at summer camp, a loving grandmother: The faces of the Texas flooding tragedy

👏 GIJN welcomes 12 new members — from Cyprus to Eswatini! These investigative orgs from 11 countries are doing vital accountability work in tough media environments. 🌍 GIJN now has 263 members in 97 countries. Meet them all 👉 https://twp.ai/9PT6yo

Join us to hear about the attacks on the press at the LA protests directly from independent journalists who experienced them. freedom.press/reporting-un...

David has spent decades advocating for the health and welfare of children. Just heartbreaking. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Samantha Ragland has been promoted to senior vice president of the American Press Institute. This well-deserved promotion recognizes her continuing pursuit of excellence in all of our programming. Please join me in congratulating her.

The 2026 Republican budget- set to pass this morning- supercharges DHS with billions for AI, surveillance, and data analytics technologies. Expect lots of new tech but no new safeguards. Systems funded to crack down on immigrants may also be deployed to crush dissent and erase privacy.