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Alan Toth is a video journalist based in San Francisco. His short film Mining Phosphorus was a finalist for the 2018 Student Academy awards. It screened at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. A version of the film was broadcast on the PBS Newshour.

His short film on human-lion conflict appeared in The Atlantic Selects, a series of short films curated by The Atlantic Magazine.

His feature documentary Posh Corps chronicled the experiences of Peace Corps Volunteers in South Africa as they …

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Planning to visit Lombard Street? San Francisco is implementing a toll to drive through

Planning to visit Lombard Street? San Francisco is implementing a toll to drive through

San Francisco's crooked Lombard Street could charge tolls up to $10 after city supervisors voted to back a pi…

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Battle over phosphate mining roils small Florida town

Battle over phosphate mining roils small Florida town

Phosphate mining is a major industry in Florida, but it's also a major source of pollution, responsible for r…

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Weed World, a Reaction to Prop 64's Victory from the Center of Production

Weed World, a Reaction to Prop 64's Victory from the Center of Production

Two occasional writers for Mission Local offer us a break from bad election news. They spent Election Day in …

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Exploring the Bay Area's Hidden Tunnel Art

Exploring the Bay Area's Hidden Tunnel Art

In the East Bay, hidden in thick trees and brush, lies a portal to another world. It's down below the streets…

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Peace Corps Volunteer Suffers From Effects of Anti-Malaria Drug Long After Service

Peace Corps Volunteer Suffers From Effects of Anti-Malaria Drug Long After Service

Mefloquine, also known by the brand name Lariam, is an anti-malarial drug that has been prescribed to Peace C…

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After a Million Miles, BART Cars Are Hella Old

After a Million Miles, BART Cars Are Hella Old

Think back to September 1972. "The Godfather" was the top movie in theaters. Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Agai…

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The art of grasping

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By Alan Toth
| Berkeley Engineering
Redefining robot manipulation with creativity and code This article appeared in Berkeley Engineer magazine, Summer 2026 IEOR and EECS professor Ken Goldberg in his lab at UC Berkeley’s Berkeley Way West. (Photo by Adam Lau/UC Berkeley Engineering) The Telegarden, the internet’s first interactive robot.
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CINEMA mission will explore auroras and Earth’s mysterious magnetotail

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By Alan Toth
| berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley leads auroral imaging instrument for first-of-its-kind multi-satellite mission Every winter, thousands of tourists travel to high-latitude regions like Scandinavia, Canada and Alaska hoping to see the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Vincent Ledvina, an aurora guide and PhD student in space physics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, estimates he leads 1000 people on aurora tours each year.
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Berkeley scientists reveal how organics emerged in deep freeze of early solar system

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By Alan Toth
| berkeley.edu
Asteroid Bennu material shows organic precursor molecules that may have produced ingredients of life first formed from cryogenic ammonia. Some 4.5 billion years ago, just as the first planetesimals formed in our solar system, a hodgepodge world of rock and various ices orbited the nascent Sun. This tiny world was so cold that even the carbon dioxide (CO2) and ammonia (NH3) hidden deep within were frozen solid.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Video Editor

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Final Cut Pro, Premiere, Audition, Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Cameras, Digital Audio Recorders, notebooks
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