Investigative Journalism: A Master Class with Journalist Jason Berry
Department: Literary Journalism
Date and Time: April 15, 2019 | 1:00 PM-2:00 PMEvent Location: HIB 135
Event Details
Please join the Literary Journalism program for a master class with investigative journalist Jason Berry, moderated by Professor Jeff Wasserstrom, UCI History
Monday, April 15
1-2 PM
Humanities Instructional Building 135
Free and open to the public; all welcome!
Berry's latest book, City of a Million Dreams (UNC Press 2018), will be available for purchase at this event.
Co-sponsored by the Forum for the Academy and the Public, the UCI Department of History, the UCI Department of English, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI).
Special thanks to the Humanities Research Institute for their support of this event.
For more information or for disability accommodations, contact Patricia Pierson at piersonp@uci.edu.
OPTIONAL SUGGESTED READINGS FOR THIS CLASS:
Jason Berry profile from the Washington Post, by Manuel Roig-Franzia
Francis inherits decades of abuse cover-up, by Jason Berry
Institutional lying at heart of the crisis, by Jason Berry
Francis must fix cover-up culture that John Paul II enabled, by Jason Berry
ABOUT JASON BERRY:
Jason Berry first achieved prominence for his reporting on the Catholic Church crisis in Lead Us Not Into Temptation (1992).
Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II, written with Gerald Renner (2004) has Spanish, Polish and Italian editions. Berry writes on culture for many publications. His book Up From the Cradle of Jazz, a history of New Orleans music reissued in fall 2009, has new sections on the cultural impact of Hurricane Katrina. In 2011 he published Render unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church (Crown), which received Investigative Reporters and Editors Best Book Award.
Berry has received Guggenheim and NEH fellowships for his latest book, City of a Million Dreams (2018), the first general history of New Orleans in many years. He received a 1992 Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship for reporting on Louisiana demagogues. Berry is a longtime contributor to The Daily Beast and National Catholic Reporter, among other outlets. He lives in New Orleans.