Here is some great reading and viewing for a sunny September day: The Class of ’10 already is coming on strong: Hannah Rappleye’s Craft story about the closing of the Stella D’oro factory made the Daily News. Speaking of the Daily News, Kate Nocera contributed to the paper’s West Indian American Day Carnival Parade coverage. [...]
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The West Indian Day Parade, Derek Jeter's Record and a Skateboarding Entrepreneur
Asthma, Layoff Insurance and Snail Mail Price Hikes
Xiomara Martinez-White wrote about the trend of folks purchasing travel insurance with a layoff insurance option. Her piece made Marie Claire. Stop by my office for a look. Mike Reicher helped produce a timely blog post for The Local, written by a merchant who is balancing business with motherhood. Maria Clark informed Daily News readers [...]
Arm Wrestling, the Zimbabwean Health Crisis and Good Friday
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 [...]
Nov. 1 – 7, 2008
What a week! We produced more than 40 story packages on Election Day alone, as well as completed our great interactive map. Some of our work was widely linked to, and run by Off The Bus, Our Town, the West Side Spirit and the Queens Courier. As Dean Shepard noted, we kept the momentum going [...]
Sarah Palin, Manny Perez and Bloomberg's Budget Revisions
What a week! We produced more than 40 story packages on Election Day alone, as well as completed our great interactive map. Some of our work was widely linked to, and run by Off The Bus, Our Town, the West Side Spirit and the Queens Courier. As Dean Shepard noted, we kept the momentum going [...]
July 26 – August 8, 2008
We’ve hit August, but they’re hardly the dog days for us. Here are some of the latest example of the Class of ’08′s fine work: Rebecca Harshbarger contributed to this Washington Post A-1 story about abducted Ugandans. She’s also been writing many pieces for The New Vision, including this story about the apparent rising asthma [...]
Return of the Zeppelin, Boat Dessert Deliveries and Mets Training Camp
We’ve hit August, but they’re hardly the dog days for us. Here are some of the latest example of the Class of ’08′s fine work: Rebecca Harshbarger contributed to this Washington Post A-1 story about abducted Ugandans. She’s also been writing many pieces for The New Vision, including this story about the apparent rising asthma [...]
July 19 – July 25, 2008
Some more great news this week: The NYCity News Service took Best News Site honors at the first annual eduStyle Awards ceremony. The recognition is particularly gratifying because we didn’t enter this contest — they found us. We also beat out some quality competition: Virginia Tech and Boston University were the other finalists. The award [...]
July 5 – July 18, 2008
Prescription for a steamy July day: Dress in loose clothes, drink plenty of liquids and check out these cool clips: Fritzie Andrade pulled together this nytimes.com video interview of All-Star Texas Ranger teammates Milton Bradley and Josh Hamilton just before Hamiliton’s Home Run Derby show. Barry Paddock made it into The Boss’ private suite (The [...]
Live Octopus Consumption, The Real World Brooklyn and the Award Winning NYCity News Service
Some more great news this week: The NYCity News Service took Best News Site honors at the first annual eduStyle Awards ceremony. The recognition is particularly gratifying because we didn’t enter this contest – they found us. We also beat out some quality competition: Virginia Tech and Boston University were the other finalists. The award [...]

