Two of our reporters scored solo bylines in the Times this week: Mathew Warren covered the funeral of a Queens soldier that combined elements of the young man’s Buddist background with U.S. military ceremony. And Carolyn Nardiello wrote about vintage car buffs on Long Island who are keeping the tradition of “cruise nights” alive. David [...]

Marlene Peralta got the wood (that’s newspaper talk for the front page story) at amNewYork Wednesday with her fine piece on the effects of gentrification on Latinos in Washington Heights and East Harlem. Cristina Alesci attended the opening of Tiffany’s new Wall St. store – but went far beyond the ribbon-cutting hoopla, and put the [...]

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism has been awarded a two-year $50,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to build a new model of consumer health journalism that will focus on combating obsesity and diabetes in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx.

Mathew Warren worked on several stories for the Times this week, including this solo piece about Betsy Gotbaum’s ill-fated stepdaughter-in-law. Georgia Kral was also busy for the Times, contributing to this story about a lawyer who admitted to destroying evidence in a child pornography case. David Chiu proved himself the leader of the pack (groan) [...]

They left for the summer as students. They came back as professionals.

Mathew Warren shared a byline on this New York Times story about a fatal hit-and-run on Houston Street. Annie Shreffler wrote about the struggles of small contractors to get subcontracting work on large public projects – such as the Croton Water Treatment Plant in Van Cortlandt Park – in this piece for the Norwood News. [...]

Emily Keller chronicled changes at Habitat for the Humanities for BusinessWeek. Andy Greiner told Daily News readers how NYU is trying to boot elderly tenants out of their long-time Greenwich Village apartment building. Marlene Peralta, Nadia Zonis and Heather Appel, all contributed to TimeOut NY’s cover piece on New York’s best neighborhoods. Heather also was [...]

The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism today announced that it has received a $100,000, two-year grant from the McCormick Tribune Foundation to provide seed funding to news start-ups developed by students in the school’s unique course in entrepreneurial journalism.

Iranian blogger Roozbeh Mirebrahimi, who fled his country after facing charges that arose from his writings critical of fundamentalists and conservatives in the Iranian regime, is the first “International Journalist in Residence” at the new City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.The program represents a new initiative by the Committee to Protect Journalists [...]

Georgia Kral notched a co-byline in this New York Times story about the primary election victory of the under-investigation mayor of Hartford. Mathew Warren shared a byline in this Times story about the evacuation of a troubled West Harlem building. Dorian Davis’ piece about much-rumored plans for an 800-story building in Japan made for fine [...]