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Greg David
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Once Mayor Bloomberg insisted that New York City was home to 8.4 million people and would hit 9 million in 2030. Now he’s grudgingly willing to settle for saying that the city contains 8.2 million people as is explained in the New York Times story City Says 50,000 Weren’t Counted. What does that mean? We will [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the news: How many people live in NYC 1 year, 9 months ago · View
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Amid all the improvements in the city, one problem seems intractable: the poor job prospects and high incarceration rates of African-American and Hispanic youths. So Mayor Bloomberg has decided to put some of his billions to work to try, again, to tackle this problem. This story from the Times, Bloomberg to Use Own Funds to Aid [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: A perplexing social problem 1 year, 9 months ago · View
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As I write this on Friday afternoon, gridlock in Washington threatens another financial crisis. Reporters at every media outlet are covering this story and seeking their own angles. Third-semester business student Eliza Ronalds-Hannon was assigned the task of writing about the likely impact in New York for Crain’s New York Business, where she interning. Can’t [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: Default Crisis Escalates 1 year, 9 months ago · View
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Are you paying attention to the crisis over whether the United States will default on its debt and the contentious debate over how and how much to reduce the role of the federal government in the economy? You should be. No issue is more fundamental for the future of the country. Also, there is no [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: The big default and New York 1 year, 9 months ago · View
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In a story of endless twists, the woman who accuses Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape has now told her story publicly in interviews with Newsweek and ABC News. The New York Times story Interviews by Strauss-Kahn Accuser Raises Doubts About Prosecutors Plans shows how a good reporter gets beyond the news to find “second-day” angles to advance [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: The DSK accuser goes public 1 year, 10 months ago · View
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If you take my class on New York City’s Economy and Business (required if you are an urban student) you will have to give an answer to this question in the first class. How much influence does city government have on the local economy? A lot Some A little I won’t give away my answer, [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the news: Bloomberg and the economy 1 year, 10 months ago · View
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What could the clandestine manufacture of rice wine tell readers about New York? A lot it turns out in the New York Times story Sale of Illegal Wine Thrives in Chinese Enclaves . This is yet another story the Times has derived by mining information from the Census, or from a tip from people who are reading [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the news: The story behind illegal rice wine 1 year, 10 months ago · View
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In covering the various neighborhoods of the city, you will find many that are distinctive because of their ethnic, religious and cultural makeup. The New York Times probes the issues in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn, shaken by the murder of an 8-year-old child, in Leiby Kletsky’s Killing Rattles a Community’s Trust in Its Own . [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: Crime and a Close-Knit Community 1 year, 10 months ago · View
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The British tabloid scandal grows worse by the day and so does the tightening circle around media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The Daily Beast takes a look at how Murdoch’s New York Post operates in Murdoch’s U.S. Tabloid Scandal . The story doesn’t cover any new ground for those of us who know the Post, but it is [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: How the NY Post operates 1 year, 10 months ago · View
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The New York Times remembered that adage as it examined the tremendous growth in subway traffic on the weekends, a sign of how much New York has changed (read improved) in the past two decades. This story tells you a lot about the city, and journalism techniques. Note how the Times ignored the usual rule about [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: The City that NEVER Sleeps 1 year, 10 months ago · View
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I don’t what it is in store for you in the first-semester legal and ethics class, but the New York Post has presented a classic case study with its weekend stories alleging the housekeeper in the DSK case is a prostitute who had traded sex for money while working at the hotel and even while [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: Post’s Gift To Legal and Ethics Class 1 year, 10 months ago · View
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Politics has become a 24/7, 365 days a year obsession for many media outlets and there is an explosion of jobs at places like politico.com and elsewhere. It is true in New York as well. Today, the Wall Street Journal surveyed the field for the 2013 mayoral race with a long 29 months to [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: The 2013 mayoral race and 24/7 politics 1 year, 10 months ago · View
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In mid June, the New York Times put together a profile of the housekeeper who had accused powerful French politician Dominique Strauss Kahn of rape. “In dozens of interviews with people who know her or are familiar with her life, the woman, now 32, is portrayed as an unassuming and hard-working single mother. The interviews were [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the news: If at first you don’t succeed 1 year, 10 months ago · View
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The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a leading contender to be president of France, on charges that he raped a hotel housekeeper has been the most riveting crime story in New York in years, became an obsession in France and was fraught with consequences for nothing less than global finance. You will all have to do [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: The biggest city crime story in a long time 1 year, 10 months ago · View
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Last Friday, in an announcement overshadowed by the passage of the gay marriage bill, the mayor announced a deal on the city budget that prevented the layoffs of more than 4,000 teachers. Nevetheless, as a New York Times story today makes clear, schools will be facing budget reductions that will result in tough choices at each school. [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: Trouble in the schools 1 year, 10 months ago · View
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The most high-profile issue in New York in the past three months has been the effort to legalize gay marriage in New York–or marriage equality as its proponents describe it. The passage Friday of a very controversial bill makes New York by far the largest state to take this step. This c omprehensive New York Times [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: Gay marriage approved in NY 1 year, 11 months ago · View
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Very interesting charts. The best work on this issue and the source of my numbers was the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor-backed, liberal oriented research group in the city. They can be a valuable source of many stories
Greg David commented on the blog post Know the News: Many New Yorkers are rich 1 year, 11 months ago · View
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Last semester, virtually every student in Craft did a story on the 2010 Census. Census results will continue to be released for the rest of the year, and you will find them invaluable in the coverage of your community district, and in many other classes as well. Today’s story from the New York Times, ` `For [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: The Changing Face of the City 1 year, 11 months ago · View
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What kind of a city will you be covering in your Craft class and in many of the other courses you take? A city with a lot of very rich people as this story from the Wall Street Journal New York section makes clear– Private School Tuition Bill Tops $40,000 . Here are some facts. If New [...]
Greg David wrote a new blog post: Know the News: Many New Yorkers are rich 1 year, 11 months ago · View
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When you walk into your Craft class in August, you will be assigned one of the city’s community districts to cover as your beat or you will be assigned a subject beat within a single community district. In either case, quickly you will be faced with some basic questions: How will I get started? Where [...]
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