Sharon Bernstein
@SharonBernstein
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Reporter, editor, banjo player and mom, not necessarily in that order. Also guitar.
Sacramento
Joined January 2010
Some personal news: Today I joined @sacbee_news as a senior reporter covering issues of criminal justice and federal courts! Super excited for the adventures ahead. DM me any story ideas!
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Gavin Newsom's Proposition 1 leads by 4,218 votes out of 6,324,968 votes counted so far. Impossible to call this one with 1.2 million-plus votes left to count.
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@berkeleyside Seriously I'm going to love this job. Check out this story on the site today - and don't forget to listen to the song!
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As climate-friendly heat pumps replace gas furnaces, two musicians teamed up on a song called “I’m Your Heat Pump.”
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So excited to announce I've joined @berkeleyside in a temporary capacity as managing editor. Looking forward to learning more about the non-profit model for local news delivery and working with this amazing team!
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Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni gives statement on killing of Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah
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US colleges refashion student essay prompts after ban on affirmative action https://t.co/ZHC4OFGZFj via @SharonBernstein
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In addition to writing about their favorite songs and why they want to go to college, students applying to Emory University in Atlanta this fall will get new essay prompts aimed at teasing out...
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Reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action
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Here are reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action on Thursday, on Twitter and elsewhere.
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Key voices in the decades-long debate over affirmative action
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For decades, selective U.S. colleges and universities have considered, among other factors, whether applicants are from underrepresented minority groups, including Black, Hispanic and Native Americ...
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Our former @UCBerkeley School of Ed interim Dean + @BerkeleyLaw Prof. Christopher Edley talks with @Reuters @SharonBernstein: "I don't think the job is done until the picture is bloodless."
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For decades, selective U.S. colleges and universities have considered, among other factors, whether applicants are from underrepresented minority groups, including Black, Hispanic and Native Americ...
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How about Arkansas? Or Mississippi?
Just once, I’d love to see someone write a “Can New York City Be Saved?” piece
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Any undergraduate student from North Carolina and South Carolina admitted to Duke whose household income is $150,000 or less will not have to pay tuition. "... a Duke education can be affordable and accessible." https://t.co/Lce6TYSEEh
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How U.C. Berkeley tried to buoy enrollment of Black students without affirmative action https://t.co/0awE95NEQe
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ICYMI ~ Joan Bernstein BA’08, MA’10, who will receive her doctoral hood at a ceremony today, will become the oldest student to receive a PhD from UT Dallas at the age of 88 🎓 #utdgrad
https://t.co/uQK26znpZF
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This quake around Plumas National Forest may have been what people were feeling in Sacramento.
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North Carolina Republicans reach agreement on 12-week abortion ban
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Republican lawmakers in North Carolina said on Tuesday they had reached agreement on a plan to limit most abortions to the first trimester of pregnancy, a sharp drop from the state's current limit of...
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Women state senators cross party lines to block proposed South Carolina abortion ban
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A day after all five women in the South Carolina state senate banded together to block a proposed abortion ban, Republican Senator Sandy Senn posted a picture of the group on her Facebook page...
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Abortion providers relieved, wary as high court preserves pill access
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Abortion rights supporters expressed relief on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court preserved access to a widely used abortion pill but warned of a long fight ahead as a legal challenge to the...
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This has been getting worse and worse for years. kudos to @akoseff and @CalMatters
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A shift by state communications officials to emails and written statements is making it more difficult for reporters to inform the public.
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Kentucky police video shows desperate rush to stop mass shooting, save lives
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The desperate rush by a rookie policeman and his training officer to bring a mass shooting at a Kentucky bank to a halt was captured in spare but dramatic detail in footage from their body cameras,...
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