The stories are coming on strong in the homestretch of summer. Here are some of the latest: H’Rina DeTroy wrote about how women in the Sudan are using a secret code to subvert the insidious practice of female genital mutilation. You’ll find her piece on The Huffington Post. Jenni Avins’ brief about a new mural [...]
Tag: Brigid Bergin
Secret Code in Sudan, Pizza Ovens and a Battle Against Paco
By Collin Orcutt | August 6, 2009 | Clips of the Week, News
Celeb Deaths, Dirty Subways and a Brooklyn Building Collapse
By Collin Orcutt | July 1, 2009 | Clips of the Week, News
The stories are popping faster than firecrackers on the Fourth of July. Here are some of the latest: Rima Abdelkader produced this video about the economy for Al Jazeera. Valerie Lapinski was the reporter for this Time.com video piece about wind power. Alana Rigal shared a byline with Brigid Bergin (’07) on this WNYC story about the Brooklyn [...]
Landlord Woes, City Sidewalks and a Fist to the Face
By Collin Orcutt | July 1, 2008 | Clips of the Week, News
The J-School made a nice showing in the Sunday papers on June 29. Damian Ghigliotty’s feature on dying funeral homes in Queens got great play in the Times’ City section. Meanwhile, Barry Paddock’s first-person piece story about his newsworthy landlord woes merited a whole page in the Daily News. Stephen Bronner’s been very busy for [...]
Oct 13 – Oct 19, 2007
By Joe Filippazzo | October 19, 2007 | Clips of the Week
Two of our reporters scored solo bylines in the Times this week: Mathew Warren covered the funeral of a Queens soldier that combined elements of the young man’s Buddist background with U.S. military ceremony. And Carolyn Nardiello wrote about vintage car buffs on Long Island who are keeping the tradition of “cruise nights” alive. David [...]
Sept 15 – Sept 21, 2007
By Joe Filippazzo | September 21, 2007 | Clips of the Week
Emily Keller chronicled changes at Habitat for the Humanities for BusinessWeek. Andy Greiner told Daily News readers how NYU is trying to boot elderly tenants out of their long-time Greenwich Village apartment building. Marlene Peralta, Nadia Zonis and Heather Appel, all contributed to TimeOut NY’s cover piece on New York’s best neighborhoods. Heather also was [...]
Sept 1 – Sept 7, 2007
By Joe Filippazzo | September 7, 2007 | Clips of the Week
Tanzina Vega scored a single-byline piece in the Times, profiling a cabbie with an only-in-New-York story. Danny Massey covered the opening of the controversial new Arab language/Middle Eastern Culture middle school in Brooklyn for the News Service – and got the story published in Newsday. In another story that originated in the News Service class, [...]
