OL Contributing Editor Reginald James wins one of six $20K AP-Google scholarships OaklandLocal.com April 8, 2012 Reginald James, an Oakland Local contributing editor and multimedia journalist, is one of six winners of the AP-Google Scholarship for his proposal for a mobile, hyper-local website for the Black community at the University of California, Berkeley. James explains in his proposal how African-American students attending UC Berkeley lack a place to adequately get news to fit their needs. James wrote: “The fall of 2011 was a juicy semester for news at UC Berkeley: proposed fee increases of up to 81 percent, a controversial “racist bake sale,” and the Occupy Cal movement. Campus media covered each of these incidents, and two even got national print and TV press coverage. Yet, most African American students didn’t learn about these events from the TV, print or news websites. Not just because they were on the ground, but because they feel the media coverage is neither fair, cultura...
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