An Election Night hate attack, the Gotham Awards and the Fatboys Running Club

By Collin Orcutt | Last updated on Friday, December 5th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

I took a week off from Clips of the Week – but our reporters didn’t rest. Here are some offerings from the past two weeks:

  • Rima Abdelkader scored a scoop with this interview with the victim of a suspected Election Night hate attack. Her piece appeared on the News Service, and is scheduled to be published by In Focus, a monthly newspaper based in Southern California.
  • Alana Rigal reported from the red carpet outside the Gotham Awards, and co-produced this video for the Daily News’ website.
  • Henry Stewart offers some off-beat holiday gift ideas in this fun piece for The L Magazine.
  • Francesa Levy has the lowdown on the most and least family friendly cities in the U.S. Check out her story and slideshow at Forbes.com.
  • I’m just catching up to this fine Marathon story Kristen Joy Watts wrote for Law Times about a group of runners from Toronto who call themselves the Fatboys Running Club.
  • Kate Lurie’s feature about a group of former prisoners who performed their off-Broadway show about life in a Manhattan half-way house for a grateful audience at the Greenhaven Correctional Facility merited full-page treatment in the Daily News.
  • Stephen Bronner shared a byline on this Daily News story about protests at Rent-a-Center outlets.
  • Matt Townsend contributed to this Daily News article about complaints over a new Burger King ad campaign.
  • The city’s efforts to push its new regulation mandating chain restaurants to post calorie counts was chronicled in this video by Aisha Al-Muslim and Mirva Lempiainen. Their story is featured on the News Service.
  • Cristiana Oliveira hit a Manhattan food pantry on Thanksgiving Eve, and found a huge line of folks waiting for turkeys and trimmings to take home. Her video made the News Service.
  • Kieran Meadows and H’Rina DeTroy reported on the effort to force building owners to provide parking for bicycles in this video piece for the News Service.
  • Mary Stachyra’s story and slideshow about the 75th anniversary of Prohibition’s end made the News Service.
  • Michael Preston and Collin Orcutt profiled an up-and-coming high school basketball star. Their video was picked up by sportcaster Adam Zagoria’s blog.
  • Sergey Kadinsky’s Flushing River photo essay as featured on the Forgotten New York website.
  • One of Candice Johnson’s Election Day photos made about.com.
  • Three of our recent podcasts – Culture Shock, HealthPods and This Place Called Home – were broadcast Dec. 1 on radio station WHCR.

Congrats to all – and keep ‘em coming!

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