Richmond Confidential now has a theme video! Xavier Polk at the RYSE center provided the musical composition.

About Richmond Confidential

Richmond Confidential is an online news service produced by the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley for, and about, the people of Richmond, California. Our goal is to produce professional and engaging journalism that is useful for the citizens of this city. With 15 full time reporters, we’ll be covering education, development, politics, culture, crime—and anything that happens that people need to know about. We can’t do this alone. We need you, the users of this site, to talk with us, make suggestions, point us in the direction of the truth, help us report stories of value. How can you do that? Comment on our stories, correct us when we make a mistake, help us understand the community you live in. In our way of thinking, the best journalism is a conversation in which we all take part.

Contact Us!

We can't do this without you! Reach out to us at news@richmondconfidential.org with tips, criticism, praise or anything else you have on your mind.

With a grant of $500,000 from the Ford Foundation to develop digital news sites, student reporters with the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley are covering neglected Bay Area Communities during core reporting classes. The funding also allows the school to hire two full-time multimedia instructors to teach multimedia skills during the reporting classes and oversee the development of these news websites. The Bay Area communities, increasingly ignored by the local news industry, are the focus of our “hyperlocal” websites. In addition to Richmond Confidential, UC Berkeley journalism students report and write for Oakland North and Mission Local.