Hope everybody enjoyed the weekend’s extra hour. Here are some of our latest examples of time well spent: The reporters in our Interactive Fundamentals sections fanned out around the city, Flip Video cameras in hand, and asked dozens of New Yorkers: “Tell us one way the recession has changed your life.” The results of the [...]
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Child Fruit Pickers, Gubernatorial Races and Pink-Slip Parties
Obama's Nobel Prize, a Brawl in Harlem and the J School's New TV Show
Here are some stories that will make for some fine viewing and reading on a holiday weekend: Shoutouts are due on the premiere of 219 West, the new monthly TV news magazine produced out of the J-School and broadcast on CUNY TV. In the election-themed debut show, producers Geneva Sands-Sadowitz and Brian Winkowski examined the [...]
Invoking Thomas Jefferson, Helicopters Crash Above the Hudson and Rats Find Refuge
Many of the internships are wrapping up, but the stories keep coming. Here are some the latest pieces by our reporters: Joel Schectman wrote a story for BusinessWeek about rejected iPhone apps. Kate Zhao’s piece about the coming “smart-grid” world, where appliances like dishwashers will automatically run in off-peak electric-use hours, made The Wall Street [...]
Competitive Double Dutch, Peanut Industry Moves to NY and a Fort Green Park Soccer Player
First some exciting news: The News Service is a finalist for two SPJ Region 1 Mark of Excellence Awards — Best All-Around Online Publication and Best Online News Reporting (for our election coverage). If we place first in either or both categories, we’ll go on to the national finals. That we’ve gotten this far is [...]
Nov. 22 – Dec. 5, 2008
I took a week off from Clips of the Week – but our reporters didn’t rest. Here are some offerings from the past two weeks: Rima Abdelkader scored a scoop with this interview with the victim of a suspected Election Night hate attack. Her piece appeared on the News Service, and is scheduled to be [...]
An Election Night hate attack, the Gotham Awards and the Fatboys Running Club
I took a week off from Clips of the Week – but our reporters didn’t rest. Here are some offerings from the past two weeks: Rima Abdelkader scored a scoop with this interview with the victim of a suspected Election Night hate attack. Her piece appeared on the News Service, and is scheduled to be [...]

