Looks like our reporters are off to a quick, productive start to the summer (and it’s not even officially summer yet!) Here are some of the latest links:

• Our Brooklyn immigration project – Brooklyn Bridges Culture ­- is online. Congrats and thanks to all of our Craft II reporters and profs for turning around another project that shows the power of our News Service to tell great stories about our city. Special thanks to Drew Geraets for designing the main page and for making changes on the fly to our template to better accommodate the multimedia elements our reporters produced. Thanks also are due to Collin Orcutt and Kristen Joy Watts for assembling our interactive Google map guide to the 18 multimedia packages our Craft teams produced.
• If you missed the piece about a Sikh City Council candidate Jackie Linge produced for Prof. Prout’s “Independent Sources,” no worries: check out this link from the CUNY TV website. You’ll find Jackie’s story about 21 minutes in. But watch the whole show if you can – there also are contributions from alums Abi Ishola and Adeola Oladele.
• Nick Loomis’ essay about the changing world of photojournalism made The New York Times’ Lens photoblog.
• Speaking of The Times, our crew at the The Local has been very busy: Kristen snapped the photo for this piece. Ben Fractenberg brought together this blog post by a Google employee who lives in the neighborhood. Jim Flood wrote about an artist who does unique portraits of homeless folks.
• Joel Schectman penned a timely article for BusinessWeek.com about China’s clamp down on social media amid the 20^th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
• Emily Feldman wrote a piece for NBC Local Integrated Media about how MySpace is courting an older demographic with music. Meanwhile, Mark Morales wrote about aging lefty fireballer Randy Johnson for the site.
• Sophia Tewa’s story about high school students doing volunteer work as part of their studies made the Daily News. Kate Nocera did some rewrite for the News’ website on Roger Federer’s big French Open win.
• Here’s the latest issue of Insight magazine, edited by Maya Pope-Chappell.
• Maya also helped keep our News Service hopping with her video piece about journalism education. Rima Abdelkader contributed a video story about an Iraqi refugee and her family’s unsettled new life in Brooklyn. Mirva Lempiainen and Igor Kossov combined on a video story about science education, with an accompanying print piece by Mirva. Aisha Al-Muslim wrote about the danger of bringing strollers on the subways.

In our alumni corner, Dan Macht wrote about small business owners’ troubles getting loans. The piece is featured on Crain’s New York Business’ Future of New York City site.

Congrats to all – and keep ‘em coming!

Tags: Abi Ishola, Adeola Oladele, Aisha Al-Muslim, Ben Fractenberg, Collin Orcutt, Dan Macht, Drew Geraets, Emily Feldman, Igor Kossov, Jackie Linge, Jim Flood, Joel Schectman, Kate Nocera, Kristen Joy Watts, Mark Morales, Maya Pope-Chappell, Mirva Lempiainen, Nick Loomis, Rima Abdelkader, Sophia Tewa