A TV report by alum Walter Smith-Randolph was featured on “The Daily Show.”

As we head toward the homestretch, check out some great new links (we’re getting close to moving Class of 2012 into the Alumni Corner, I promise):

•Andrew Welsch’s story about same-sex couples being split by deportation made The Atlantic.

•Linda Villarosa’s interview for Essence with Chirlane McCray, who is married to mayoral candidate Bill DeBlasio, got big pickup.

•Sara Sugar and Alex Wolf’s story about a former foster child’s unique friendship with Christine Quinn led DNAInfo.com’s homepage. So did Eric Jankiewicz’ piece about McDonald’s franchises that charge for extra ketchup. Both stories got picked up by The Huffington Post’s New York page.

•Sierra Leone Starks’ piece about plans for a design-to-manufacturing fashion house in Industry City landed in Brooklyn Based.

•Nathan Place, reporting for the Mott Haven Herald, looked at the impact of redistricting on a district split between Manhattan and the South Bronx.

•Welcome to The Nabe, the successor to The Local. The new site launched Thursday with contributions from Ashoka Jegroo, Priscila Ortiz, Linda Villarosa, Amanda Woods and Mitch Trinka.

•Jillian Eugenios’s article about planned minimum wage increases and workers who rely on tips found a home in Gotham Gazette.

•Meanwhile, Jillian teamed with Ilie Mitaru on this News Service story about the art of the worm. Also: Check out the new “Creative Challenges” project, with contributions by Lindsay Armstrong, Kathleen Caulderwood, Jeannie Choi, Shannon Firth, Raed El Rafei, Ajai Raj, Lisa Rinehart, Rebecca Sesny, Anna Teregulova, Zara Katz, Dominik Wurnig and Elly Yu.

•Erin Horan worked on this CBS News story about the New Orleans parade shooting.

•Elbert Chu’s piece on the designer of a Jetsons-like plane was part of Popular Science’s most recent cover package.

•Erin Brodwin’s story about how barriers to birth control could be contributing to unintended pregnancies among U.S. servicewomen in combat made Scientific American.

•If you missed the April and May broadcasts of 219 West TV Magazine, you can watch online. Contributors include: Theresa Fisher, Orie Givens, Mathilde Hamel, Anne Lagamayo, Jonathan Moffie, Natalia Osipova, Aine Pennello, Candace Sheppard, John Sodaro and Nadja Thomas.

•Carla Astudillo covered a mayoral candidates forum for Voices of NY. Amanda Hou wrote an article about the rising number of Chinese students in U.S. graduate schools.

•Shannon Ayala’s article about a plan to combine sports and civics for youths found a home in the Bronx Times.

•Christine Streich’s article about a music program aimed at breaking down cultural barriers made Youth Today.

In our Alumni Corner:

•Three of our alumni won New York Press Club awards. A photo Tuan Nguyen snapped for DNAinfo.com of devastated Breezy Point took Spot News honors. DNA’s Patrick Wall won the Nellie Bly Cub Reporter award for his work covering Bronx schools. Matt Townsend was part of a Bloomberg team that won for Continuing Coverage for its reporting on Sandy’s impact.

•Nathan Frandino and Channon Hodge teamed on this New York Times video about the Mark Sanford-Elizabeth Colbert Busch race in South Carolina.

•Shane Dixon Kavanaugh of the Daily News wrote about his close encounter with viral-video-star-turned-murder-suspect Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker.

•Zach Kussin covered the latest developments in the Stuyvesant Town rent-hike battle for The Real Deal.

•A clip of Walter Smith-Randolph’s report for NBC25 in Flint, MI about a politician who spewed a racial slur made “The Daily Show.” You can catch Walter’s Jon Stewart moment at about 6:50 in.

Congrats to all  – and keep ‘em coming!

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism on Thursday launched The Nabe, a site that extends the experiment in collaborative hyperlocal journalism The New York Times began in March 2009 with the debut of The Local.

The Nabe shares the same goal as its predecessor site: to help residents of Brooklyn’s Fort Greene and Clinton Hill cover their neighborhoods, using the emerging tools of journalism to tell and share stories in compelling new ways.

These last four years have brought great change, not only to dynamic Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, but also to The Local. The CUNY J-School, which worked with The Times and the community from the start of The Local, took over day-to-day operations in January 2010, under the supervision of Times editors.

The Times, after vastly contributing to and gleaning lessons from The Local, has moved on. The CUNY J-School intends to keep the experiment going and growing.

In making a fresh start, the blog’s name – and location (The Nabe can be found at http://www.TheNabe.me) – has changed. But not its mission.

The faculty and students of the CUNY J-School are dedicated to making The Nabe a place where neighbors not only can come together to talk about anything via online forums, but also to contribute – as commenters, tipsters, writers, editors, crowdsourcing project participants, videographers and photographers.

Our reporters will cover the same mix of crime, school, political and arts news, as well as offer glimpses into the lives of local residents – and their pets. But we’re also here to help residents cover the neighborhood – with everything from write-ups of community board meetings to videos of school concerts to pictures of soccer games in the dust bowl in Fort Greene Park.

In the meantime, hope to see you soon, in The Nabe.

Gala 2013 – Matthew Goldstein from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo.

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Gala 2013 – Stephen B. Shepard from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo.

Gala 2013 – Taylor Tepper from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo.

Gala 2013 – Carla Astudillo from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo.

Gala 2013 – Sarah Kazadi from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo.

Gala 2013 – Stephen B. Shepard from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo.

Narratively, an in-depth storytelling platform developed by 2012 CUNY J-School Entrepreneurial Journalism Fellow Noah Rosenberg, has been named one of TIME’s 50 Best Websites of 2013.

A post on the TIME site described the No. 6 website pick as follows: “At a time when the percentage of articles longer than 2,000 words in national newspapers has plummeted, Narratively sets a different theme each week and publishes one in-depth local story a day around that idea. Its strategy is designed to “slow down the news cycle” and focus on stories about people you don’t hear about every day—from female taxi drivers to a gay male escort. Text is broken up by bold, full-screen images and mini-documentaries to take full advantage of the innovative possibilities of Internet storytelling.”

Narratively got its start with the help of $6,500 in seed funding from the CUNY J-School’s Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism along with nearly $54,000 raised in a Kickstarter campaign.

Check out our latest links – including Sophia Rosenbaum’s New York Times story about falling strawberry prices.

Congrats to “The Doctor Drain” team for winning a national SPJ award. Here are some more stories well worth a look (again, the Class of 2012 will be moving to Alumni Corner soon):

•Sophia Rosenbaum’s piece about falling strawberry prices made The New York Times’ City Room blog.

•Alex Eidman’s article about the battle over who can use the word “superhero” landed on Page 3 of the Daily News.

•Elly Yu, working for the Mott Haven Herald, reported on an undercover cop videotaped chasing a 10-year-old boy.

•Gabriella Sierra’s interview with music journalist Anthony DeCurtis was featured in Narrative.ly.

•Casey Cipriani’s story about the Greek fusion food trend found a home in the Queens Chronicle.

•Jessica Glazer’s story about a foodie/historian who lived for a week on recipes intended to help 19th Century tenement dwellers made our News Service. Mathilde Hamel and Angela Johnson reported on the increase in adoptions by same-sex couples. Sierra Leone Stark reported on the rise in crowdfunding efforts for movie projects.

•Eric Jankiewicz’ piece about retro video games found a home in Review Fix.

•Matt Surrusco’s article about the local impact of federal budget cuts to Head Start made The Queens Courier.

•Shannon Ayala wrote a piece for City Atlas about a group that claimed a Williamsburg lot as a community garden.

•Christine Streich, working for Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, reported on a new program to help young probationers.

•Willis Arnold and Nabil Rahman worked on the “Where I’m From” event at Webster Hall. Tanisia Morris covered the show for Voices of NY.

•The latest on The Local includes posts by, among others, Tiffany Camhi, Kathleen Culliton, Chris Dell, Theresa Fisher, Ashoka Jegroo, Jonathan Moffie,  Priscila Ortiz, Nick Wells and Amanda Woods.

In our Alumni Corner:

•Katie Honan shared in NBC 4 New York’s Emmy win for its coverage of a shooting near the Empire State Building.

•Shuka Kalantari’s profile of a train hopper known as the Polaroid Kid made BBC’s Outlook. Her segment starts at about 12:55.

•Mark Morales worked on this Boston Marathon-related exclusive for the Daily News.

•Jordan Shakeshaft interviewed NFL prospect Tony Jefferson for Greatist.com.

Congrats to all — and keep ‘em coming!

“The Doctor Drain,” which examines New York’s looming primary care crisis, won for best Online In-Depth Reporting in the nation in the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards.

“The Doctor Drain,” ­a NYCity News Service multimedia special report examining the looming primary care crisis in New York, won the Society of Professional Journalists’ national Mark of Excellence Award for Online In-Depth Reporting, it was announced today.

The news came just over two weeks after work posted on the NYCity News Service took home 15 SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards for Region 1, which covers much of the Northeast. “The Doctor Drain” earned two of those awards – among five first-place honors for the CUNY J-School. “The Doctor Drain” previously won honorable mention in Editor & Publisher’s national EPPY Awards in the Best College/University Investigative or Documentary Report category.

The project and other national winners will be acknowledged during the Aug. 24 – 26 Excellence in Journalism conference in Anaheim, CA, which brings together SPJ, the Radio Television Digital News Association and the Nation Association of Hispanic Journalists.

“The Doctor Drain” was produced by Sarah Amandolare, Kemiga Bunyasaranand, Guia Marie Del Prado, Michelle Gross, Jacob Hodes, Zara Katz, Lisa Mahapatra, Daisy Rosario, Joseph Stepansky, Jane Teeling, Taylor Tepper and Dobrina Zhekova.

Founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi, the 9,000-member SPJ is dedicated to the perpetuation of a free press as the cornerstone of our nation and our liberty. SPJ’s Mark of Excellence Awards honor the best in student journalism. This year, student journalists submitted more than 4,600 entries.

The NYCity News Service, which debuted in 2007, feeds multimedia content to news organization of various types and sizes, including The New York Times, The Huffington Post and DNAinfo.com. The News Service has collected honors from the Online News Association, eduStyle, Editor & Publisher’s EPPY Awards competition and the SPJ, which, in 2010, named the site the best of its kind in the nation.

Shazna Nessa

During her fellowship, Nessa, former deputy managing editor of editorial products and innovations at the Associated Press in New York, will be working to develop “tools to help the public understand data visualizations and heighten visual literacy in news and media outlets.”

Other fellows will work on improving accuracy in reporting on Islam, raising the profile of indigenous perspectives on the news, engaging citizens in local food coverage, and getting news quickly to communities hit by disaster. They also will be developing tools to help journalists create high-quality animated editorial cartoons, blog live on mobile platforms, gain relevant coding and data skills, and better connect with millennials and the changing U.S. demographic.

“This group of U.S. Knight Fellows is easily the most diversified ever, with fellows coming from daily newspapers, online publications, tech companies, and even an academic institution,” said Knight Fellowships Director James Bettinger. “This wide range of backgrounds and specialties reflects the variety and depth of expertise and commitment that journalism needs right now.”

Among the benefits fellows receive during the 10-month program are a $65,000 stipend, paid Stanford tuition, and a housing allowance.

Bobbi Misick tells a heart warming story about the significance of conch to her home country, Turks and Caicos. (Photo by Lauren Rothman, ’13)

For the second straight year, students in the CUNY J-School’s Radio News Writing and Reporting class took the stage at nearby dive bar Tobacco Road to hone their storytelling chops. The event is inspired by the Moth series, with each student tasked with telling a five-minute story with no notes.

Kathleen Culliton told the story of a study abroad fling in Italy that ended awkwardly, new dad Jordan Davidson reminisced about the agonizing choice of picking a name for his daughter, and Bobbi Misick told a heartwarming story about her home country Turks and Caicos and her complicated relationship with one of its most popular foods, conch.

Radio instructor Alex Goldmark opened the festivities by discussing the inauspicious start to his radio career as a stringer for NPR in Brazil. Another highlight of the evening was a visit from Julie Polk, a veteran storyteller. She ended the night with a wild story about life on the road in a traveling Shakespeare troupe, and a performance that went haywire–complete with a costume malfunction and near-concussion.

Julie Polk was a guest storyteller at the CUNY J-School’s second annual Storytelling Night. (Photo by Lauren Rothman, ’13)

The assignment challenges students to think about structure and pacing. In preparation for the event, veteran Moth storyteller Jim O’Grady visited the class and encouraged students to pick a story with “a clear beginning, middle, and end.”

By the end of the evening, 11 students took the stage, and their stories were recorded for future air on local radio stations.

Instructor Amanda Aronczyk’s section of Radio News Writing and Reporting will also take the stage at Tobacco Road on Monday, May 6 at 5 p.m. All are welcome to attend.

Open House 2013: Ten Reasons to Choose the CUNY J-School – April 20, 2013 from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo.

Open House 2013: NYCity News Service – April 20, 2013 from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo.

Open House 2013: Multi-Media Interactive Presentation – April 20, 2013 from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo.

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