The Students

The Classes

The print and digital TV stories were reported by students in the master's degree program at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

Covering Japan: Nagasaki Journal

Students enrolled in this class to prepare for the reporting trip and to be introduced to trends and history in Japan. The aims of the course were to explore the fabric of people's everyday lives in Nagasaki and to search for the strands that bind a community together or pull it apart.

Todd Carrel and Masahiko Sasajima taught the course and guided the students as they reported and produced their stories on deadline in Nagasaki. Carrel, who reported from Asia for more than a decade, including a three-year stint for The Associated Press in Japan, is a part-time lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism.

Sasajima is a senior editor at Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun and a longtime political and foreign correspondent who has covered China and the United States for that newspaper.

Digital TV and the World

Three of the students enrolled in this special experimental course to learn the basics of television editing and reporting with small, portable equipment. This course also was taught by Carrel, a former bureau chief, correspondent and producer for ABC News.

The Digital TV and the World special project is supported by gifts from the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the broadcast and professional systems division of Sony Electronics, Inc., Apple, and the Graduate School of Journalism.

To view other works from Digital TV and the World classes, click here.

Special Thanks

In Japan, additional assistance was provided by members of the Yomiuri Shimbun's Nagasaki bureau, and by volunteer interpreters from the Nagasaki International Association and the Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies.

For publishing the articles and the digital TV reports, we are indebted to foreign/national editor Dan Sneider, section editor Michael Winter and their colleagues at the San Jose Mercury News, and to Tom Kennedy and his colleagues at the washingtonpost.com web site.

In addition, special thanks go to Carolyn Wakeman, associate professor of journalism and director of the joint degree program in Journalism and Asian Studies, and to Dean Orville Schell of the Graduate School of Journalism.

This site was created by Carole-Anne Elliott, who received her master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism in May, 2003.