Hi everyone, My name is Aidan Guthrie and I’m from Oakland but live in Berkeley most of the time. I took this class because I am interested in going into journalism as a field. I admire the impact powerful journalism can have. As a historian by training I think journalism could benefit from greater historical context. (Journ-111)

By Benjamin Coleman, Daniel Solakian, Aidan Guthrie, Phoebe Hyer, Mel Octaviano Guest’s carefully file into the backyard, each in masks, and sit down in chairs spaced six feet apart from each other. Then they start singing ‘Happy Birthday’. Ten of Lucy Coleman’s closest family and friends have gathered in her…

2020 has been a year like none other and it is less than half over. The worst global pandemic since the Spanish Flu of 1918 has disrupted life in all corners of the world. The Black Lives Matter movement has again taken center stage in public conversation in the wake…

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/border-barriers/global-illegal-immigration-prevention/ This 2016 piece covers the exponential leap in the construction of new walls on national borders the world has undergone over the last two decades. Between 9/11/2001 and 2016 the number of walls between national borders has expanded from roughly 14 to 64. …