Credit: UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The work of a UC Berkeley School of Journalism lecturer, five students and two alumni was honored with 2021 Pulitzer Prizes in the breaking news, national news and public service categories.
Abbie VanSickle was a key member of the staff of The Marshall Project that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a year-long investigation of K-9 units and the damage that police dogs inflict on Americans, including innocent citizens and police officers. Their stories prompted numerous statewide reforms.
VanSickle, a lecturer at the School and a former reporter at the Investigative Reporting Program (IRP), chronicled the story during two particularly stressful periods the pandemic and the forest fires in California with two young children at home. “I am so grateful for all the people who trusted us to share their experiences, honored to be part of this collaboration and thankful for the recognition from the Puli
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Don t kill me : Others tell of abuse by officer who knelt on George Floyd
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By: Jamiles Lartey and Abbie VanSickle
Firsthand accounts accuse Derek Chauvin, the police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd s neck in Minneapolis, of using similar tactics on detainees over the years. Nearly three years before Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd as he cried out that he couldn t breathe last May, Zoya Code found herself in a similar position: handcuffed facedown on the ground, with Chauvin s knee on her.
The officer had answered a call of a domestic dispute at her home, and Code said he forced her down when she tried to pull away.
by Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist s Resource
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