Tag: Claudia Cruz

Queens Sex Offenders, Stop 'Stop Snitching' and Bad News for Jelly Bean Eaters

By Collin Orcutt | July 18, 2008 | Clips of the Week, News

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 Hamilton’s Home Run Derby show. Barry Paddock made it into The Boss’ private suite (The [...]

April 12 – April 18, 2008

By Joe Filippazzo | April 18, 2008 | Clips of the Week

Looks like everybody has really earned the Spring Break respite. Here are the latest fruits of your labors: Linnea Covington wrote a very timely story about Passover cooking for The Brooklyn Paper. Cristina Alesci wrote a piece for the Daily News about a program that helps train high school students for the business world. Claudia [...]

March 1 – March 7, 2008

By Joe Filippazzo | March 7, 2008 | Clips of the Week

Claudia Cruz was busy in two states, heading to her old stomping grounds of Ohio and filing three pre-primary story packages for Off The Bus. Check out her work, here, here and here. She also found time to file an article – in English and Spanish – for the Manhattan Times about a first-of-its-kind study [...]

Feb 2 – Feb 8, 2008

By Joe Filippazzo | February 8, 2008 | Clips of the Week

Claudia Cruz’ walkup to the Florida primary – focusing on Miami’s Hispanic community – made The Huffington Post. Linnea Covington’s article about an entrepreneur bringing a taste of Trinidad to Wall Street found a home in Downtown Express. Barry Paddock is on a hot streak at the Daily News. He scored his second front page [...]

Jan 12 – Jan 18, 2008

By Joe Filippazzo | January 18, 2008 | Clips of the Week

Our Team New Hampshire — Eliot Caroom, Joshua Cinelli, Claudia Cruz, Lakshmi Gandhi, Daniel Macht and Matt Townsend rocked the Granite State, contributing print pieces, pictures, slideshows and videos to offthebus.com, an off-shoot of the Huffington Post. (Their fine work, by the way, is the latest product of a relationship forged with Off the Bus [...]

Dec 29, 2007 – Jan 4, 2008

By Joe Filippazzo | January 4, 2008 | Clips of the Week

Our graduation speaker Angela Hill was busy until the very end of the semester, placing an article in the Hunts Point Express about plans to turn a small island off the Bronx into an environmental study center. She also wrote a story about a Queens jump rope competition for the Daily News. Tanzina Vega, Matt [...]

Dec 1 – Dec 7, 2007

By Joe Filippazzo | December 7, 2007 | Clips of the Week

Jego Armstrong and Sebastian Bednarski covered a conference on crime and politics at John Jay. Khadijah Cole found a whole new ball of wax at Madam Tussauds. Marlene Peralta profiled a Brooklyn community fixture who knew the charms of Williamsburg long, long, long before the hipsters arrived. If you missed it last Friday, you can [...]

Nov 10 – Nov 16, 2007

By Joe Filippazzo | November 16, 2007 | Clips of the Week

Damian Ghigliotty and Joe Hirsch contributed to the Queens Courier’s ongoing series about immigrant day laborers: Damian tells the inside story of clubs where men who left loved ones at home go after work and pay $2 a dance to wile away the loneliness. Joe profiled a 50-something laborer who is ready to return to [...]

Oct 22 – Nov 2, 2007

By Joe Filippazzo | November 2, 2007 | Clips of the Week

Marlene Peralta got the wood again — this time in today’s Newsday — for her great follow up story on the driver who was critically injured in the Lexington Ave. steam pipe blast. She also contributed to another headline grabber: the murder of a Queens dentist. Heather Appel showed some range this week with an [...]

Sept 22 – Sept 28, 2007

By Joe Filippazzo | September 28, 2007 | Clips of the Week

Mathew Warren shared a byline on this New York Times story about a fatal hit-and-run on Houston Street. Annie Shreffler wrote about the struggles of small contractors to get subcontracting work on large public projects – such as the Croton Water Treatment Plant in Van Cortlandt Park – in this piece for the Norwood News. [...]