What a great week – first the News Service was honored with two first-place SPJ awards, then we learned that Kristen Joy Watts and Collin Orcutt were named to the UWIRE100 list of the top collegiate journalists in the country. Here are some more examples of the kind of fine work that is getting our [...]

During the open house, our visitors admired the clips on the Newsroom bulletin board. Here are some of the latest candidates for posting: Igor Kossov wrote about the city’s plans to slash all-day Kindergarten slots at day care centers. His piece got some nice play in The Queens Courier. Marcella Veneziale wrote about growing noise [...]

Break? What break? It looks like our reporters have been plenty busy: Rima Abdelkader’s story about how a material commonly found in cell phones and laptop computers is helping fuel violence in the Congo made The Huffington Post – and got big pickup in the blogosphere. Damiano Beltrami also got some play on The Huffington [...]

Here’s some more proof that the upcoming Spring break is well deserved: Mirva Lempiainen’s very timely – and close to home – story about college students cutting back this year on elaborate Spring fling plans was featured on the News Service. Kristen Joy Watts’ touching slideshow about the death – no, the life – of [...]

Judging by the prodigious output this week, it looks like spring fever has hit. Here are some of the latest fruits of your labor: 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 [...]

Packing all we need to do into 24 hours is tough enough, but doing it all 23 is harder. Try to find time, though, to check out some of the latest examples of our reporters’ fine work: The News Service was humming this week: Brian Winkowski and Rima Abdelkader put together a video story about [...]

Sorry for the delay, but technical difficulties kept me from filing over the weekend. So let’s cut to the chase: Mike Reicher’s story about some ongoing NIMBY fights – and a counter-intuitive report that suggests introducing “supportive housing” into neighborhoods can raise property values –made City Limits. Jenni Avins’ fun review of The Drake Hotel [...]

It’s been a very productive first week of the new semester. Here are some of the latest fruits of your labor: Sandra Roa spent a night on the cold streets to chronicle the city’s annual homeless census. Her hard work paid off: She helped MSNBC put together an audio slideshow. Nicole Turso wrote a fun [...]

Greetings, I’d say welcome back, but I’ve seen just about everyone over the last month, thanks to our great January Academy sessions. For a break, it’s been a very busy time – and here are some of the clips to prove it: Maya Pope-Chappell turned her ticket to the inauguration into a journalistic opportunity. She [...]

I know better than to let my lede get bogged down with sentimental mush about graduation, so let’s get straight to business: Henry Stewart’s entertaining review of the not-so-entertaining (by his reckoning) revival of “All My Sons” was featured in The L Magazine. Linnea Covington offered a somewhat more positive review of the new Nolita [...]