Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

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Accepting Defeat

March 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

So I’ve finally finished my covering violence project — Accepting Defeat. You can check it out here.
I’ve posted this feature because I think one issue “at stake” with the election that we haven’t talked about is gun control. When Democrats had control of the house in the early 1990s, they made gun control one of […]

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Flowgrams — storytelling tool?

March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

An adjunct professor in UC Berkeley’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department is developing a new communications tool: Flowgrams. If you click on the link I just posted, it will send you to the Website, where you can see examples of flowgrams made by other students here. I tried to make one myself but I […]

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The Black Vote in Oakland - Multimedia Presentation

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments

The African-American vote has become a major focus during this national election with the presence of the first serious black contender, Barack Obama. Black voters are largely choosing between Obama and Hillary Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton, affectionately known as the “first black president.”
Watch multimedia project here

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American Dream in Progress

February 4th, 2008 · No Comments


This is an unfinished piece. I will use this layout to post information about the candidates’ ads in the days before Super Tuesday. The data I would use for this piece is not available for free yet.

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