Michael Bolden

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

Long hallway of a traditional library with tall wooden bookshelves lined with books on both sides. Text says: Every month, cutting-edge Wikimedia research comes alive on streams. These conversations dig into topics like editor insight, appropriate use of AI, and how Wikipedia really works.

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

The Grateful Dead by Jim Marshall: Photos and Stories from the Formative Years, 1966–1977 UC Berkeley Journalism offers a two-year Master of Journalism (MJ) degree and a summer minor, preparing students for careers in journalism.

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.
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Soot, Sickness, and Silence: A Black Louisiana Community Is Still Struggling After an Explosion Two weeks on, Roseland families are cleaning their homes, aching for answers, and still fearing what they breathe.

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

OpenNews is hiring: Community manager OpenNews connects a network of developers, designers, journalists, and editors to collaborate on open technologies and processes within journalism. Alongside our community, our mission includes fighti...

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!

Monica’s dedication as a journalist and her deep appreciation for California will help this model program deepen its impact to benefit millions of residents. fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/cafellows/

Next week the fellowship will launch its third cohort, a testament to true collaboration among journalism organizations and political leaders to invest in our state’s information ecosystem. fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/cafellows/ne...

Veteran journalist Monica Campbell selected to lead next chapter of pioneering California Local News Fellowship UC Berkeley Journalism offers a two-year Master of Journalism (MJ) degree and a summer minor, preparing students for careers in journalism.

I’m thrilled that Monica Campbell has agreed to be the next director of the California Local News Fellowship at @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social.

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'Sopranos' star Jerry Adler, Broadway backstage vet turned late-in-life actor, dies at 96 Actor Jerry Adler has died at 96. Adler started his career behind the scenes in theater and worked on more than 50 Broadway productions.

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...

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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!):

The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations

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.

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PBS Slashes Budget by 21% After Federal Funding Cuts

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...

The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...

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.

DHS is delaying millions in already approved North Carolina recovery funds, documents show Communities across the region still need to be reimbursed for about a hundred projects including debris removal, waste water treatment repairs, roads and bridges, damaged buildings and parks, as well ...

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.

Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public 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…

#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

Immigrant Media: Serving Communities at a Critical Moment - Nieman Reports Outlets are under increasing political and financial pressure at a time when they are needed most.

“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.

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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.

Ohio reporter’s notebook searched by Secret Service at Vance fundraiser Erin Glynn, a reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer, had her reporting notebook searched by Secret Service agents during a security …

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.

Thousands of once-secret California police files made public in searchable database 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, built by UC Berkeley and Stanford and distributed by news outlets including the Chronicle, allows searches by name, agency or keyword.

California police misconduct records now available in public database A database of 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 California officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases is now available online.

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.

A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records For Immediate Release August 4, 2025 Contact: Journalism@berkeley.edu A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records   ...

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

Exclusive: Trump administration slashed federal funding for gun violence prevention 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, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Baltimore.

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...

Two dogs on the UC Berkeley campus.

Two dogs on the UC Berkeley campus.

Two dogs on the UC Berkeley campus.

Two dogs on the UC Berkeley campus.

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...

California taxpayers will pay $15 million to hire journalists Your morning catch-up: Taxpayer-funded journalism, remains of the 31st firestorm victim found in Altadena and more big stories.

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...