Berkeley High Jacket

Berkeley High Jacket
TypeBiweekly student newspaper
FormatBroadsheet and Digital
Editor-in-chiefYsabel Chu and Josephine Morasky
HeadquartersBerkeley, California
Circulation3,300
Websiteberkeleyhighjacket.com

The Berkeley High Jacket (JKT, sometimes known as The Jacket) is the student newspaper serving the roughly three thousand students of Berkeley High School, California. Published since 1912, the paper gained national attention in 1999 when two student reporters, Megan Greenwell and Iliana Montauk, published an investigative piece that helped lead to the prosecution of local businessman Lakireddy Bali Reddy for sex trafficking and other criminal activities.[1][2] This reporting won the Jacket staff the "Journalist of the Year" award from the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Chapter.[3] The paper since has won numerous awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the National Scholastic Press Association, including the 2022 NSPA Online Pacemaker Award.[4]

  1. ^ Yi, Matthew (10 May 2000). "Girl reporters selling their expose". SFGate. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  2. ^ Dinkelspiel, Frances (9 December 2009). "10 years later: How 2 Berkeley High reporters broke sex-ring scandal". Berkeleyside.com. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  3. ^ "The Jacket Staff, Berkeley High School, 2000 journalist of the year". SPJ.org. Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Chapter. Archived from the original on 2006-05-07. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  4. ^ "NSPA - 2022 Online Pacemakers". Retrieved 2022-09-11.