Mediagazer: Pulitzer-prize winning journalist John Temple takes over from Lowell Bergman as the director of UC Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program (UC Berkeley IRP)

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Pulitzer-prize winning journalist John Temple takes over from Lowell Bergman as the director of UC Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program — John Temple, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and journalism innovator, has become the new director of the Investigative Reporting Program.

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