• Ben Fractenberg put together this video about Sudanese refugees in Tel Aviv for Haaretz.
• Our reporters turned out two stories about Iran and social networking: a BusinessWeek.com print piece by Joel Schectman and a video Rima Abdelkader worked on for Al Jazeera.
• Sandra Roa co-produced a couple of videos for the New York Times’ Vows page, including this story of a young couple setup via including this story of a young couple setup via Blackberry.
• Jenni Avins wrote a piece for Saveur about the legacy of food writer Craig Claiborne.
• Kate Zhao has been busy at Dow Jones. This piece about Proctor & Gamble getting into the online soap opera game in China is just one example of her work.
• Jessica Simeone continues to pump out the stories at the New York Post, including this Page 3 piece on road rage.
• Anastasia Economides also has been working under a daily deadline, contributing to multiple stories for am New York, including this article about subway trash.
• Emily Feldman wrote a piece for NBC Local Integrated about how Tiger Woods is laughing off drunken hecklers at the U.S. Open. Mark Morales wrote for NBC about how sharks are the newest cocaine-smuggling mules.
• How’s this for J-School teamwork: Kristen Joy Watts co-produced this audio slideshow about the golf course at Bethpage State Park – home to the U.S. Open – with Leslie Ann Caraballo (Class of ’07) for the New York Times’ Lens blog.
• Kristen and other members of our Local team offered posts last week on an important part of our mission: community training. Kristen is collecting used digital cameras so she can train middle schoolers in photography. Mike Reicher and Lois DeSocio are putting together training efforts for high schoolers. Meanwhile, Jim Flood is up to his ankles in rats. He’s hoping to use his story to kick off a collaborative reporting project.

In our alumni corner, Jessica Firger (’09) is reporting for www.oyster.com, a new travel planning website that just went live over the weekend. Check it out as you make your (late) summer vacation plans.

Thanks to everyone who sent us urls to portfolio sites/resumes so we can start linking them to News Service bylines. If you haven’t already, take a moment to go here and send us your url.

Congrats to all on another productive week – and keep those links coming!

• The second and last part of Carla Murphy’s series on efforts to boost sports opportunities for girls in public schools was featured in Women’s eNews. Carla’s work on this subject has been linked to by Jezebel and Salon.
• Anna Limontas-Salisbury’s story about trees and Brooklyn (this headline writes itself) made the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
• Anastasia Economides’ article about a dispute over a proposal to eliminate some parking spots on Skillman Avenue found a home in The Queens Courier.
• Sarah Trefethen’s piece about plans to rezone Webster Avenue made Norwood News.
• Our Fort Greene Team continues its good work for The Local, the New York Times’ new hyperlocal experiment. A couple of examples: Jim Flood wrote about a theater group that wants to use stories from local folks to put together a play. Mike Reicher uncovered a report detailing lead paint hazards found in a shelter on the grounds of the Walt Whitman Houses.
• Our reporters were all over Sunday’s Daily News. Tim Persinko shared the byline on a front page story about a senseless fire tragedy. Ben Fractenberg contributed to the Natasha Richardson coverage. Joel Schectman scored a solo byline with his story about a bone marrow screening drive aimed at saving a 6-year-old girl. Damiano Beltrami made the Metro page with his profile of Alaa Majeed (it’s not online yet – I’ll keep an eye out). Sergey Kadinsky, meanwhile, contributed to The News’ Richardson coverage in Saturday’s paper. Maria Clark worked on the story of the woman shot by an arrow in Riverdale.

Our News Service was hopping this week, too:

• Rima Abdelkader contributed a multi-media piece about an Iraq-born musician who is a master of the oud, an ancient guitar-like instrument.
• Nick Loomis and Karina Ioffee teamed on an audio slideshow about struggling Latino day laborers in Queens.
• Anastasia Economides offered an audio slideshow about a new interactive website on the history of Brooklyn.

Congrats to all – and keep ‘em coming!