Susan Rasky
rasky@berkeley.edu
Susan Rasky is a senior lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley School of Journalism. Before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1991, she reported for the New York Times, serving as chief congressional correspondent in the Washington, D.C. bureau, and shared the 1990 George Polk Award for National Reporting for her coverage of the Federal budget battles. With a bachelor’s degree in history from U.C. Berkeley and a master’s degree in economic history from the London School of Economics, Rasky began her career in Washington covering tax, budget, and economic policy for the Bureau of National Affairs, later reporting for Reuters from Capitol Hill and the White House. While teaching, Rasky also established and supervises the J-School's California News Service, a permanent news service that gives students experience covering state government and politics while offering coverage to news organizations throughout California.
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Twelve things journalists need to remember to be good economic reporters
COMMENTARY | June 13, 2006
Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong teams up with journalism professor Susan Rasky on a quick guide for journalists who talk to economists and want to be in the information -- rather than disinformation -- business. 
Twelve things economists need to remember to be helpful journalistic sources
COMMENTARY | June 13, 2006
In an accompanying piece to Twelve things journalists need to remember to be good economic reporters, Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong teams up with journalism professor Susan Rasky on a quick guide for economists who talk to journalists and want to help, rather than hurt.
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If voters are to go into the midterm elections with any understanding at all, the press needs to get away from he-said, she-said reporting and look into the positions that candidates and the two parties are taking. Martin Lobel offers some vital questions. 
Our correspondent in Australia has ideas on how to improve things a little. But he’s not optimistic that anyone on Capitol Hill will be interested.
Columnist and author Steven Greenhut looks at the ongoing pension issue, including abuses of it, and deals with some of the key questions.
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Cleaning up in the wake of the 2010 Iowa State Fair will be daunting this year. In addition to the mess left by nearly 1 million visitors and thousands of farm animals, we have a continuing saga of news coverage that told of possible racial assaults and then, in Saturday Night Live fashion, appears [...] 
(Editor’s note: The incidents described here have become part of a developing story, as this Google link shows.)
The Des Moines Register’s reluctance to identify criminal suspects or victims by race has turned into an outright refusal to do so.
The closing night of the Iowa State Fair was marked by an observance not exactly on the [...]
I got this note from a friend and colleague a little while after Roger Clemens was indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 19th:
“And meanwhile, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, CIA officials and others who lied to Congress in sworn testimony about Iraq go free. If we can ‘look forward, not backward’ on torture, perjury, [...]
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