Some cool stories to help pass some hot days:
•I was remiss with my omission in the last note of the latest issue of the Mott Haven Herald, which features a special report titled, Green Jobs, Green City, with stories by Carla Candia, Alex Green IV, Nick Loomis and Vishal Persaud. Meanwhile, Emily Lavin reported on a trip local students made to New Orleans to learn Katrina’s lessons and Hannah Rappleye wrote about a cadets program run out of a Bronx community center.
•Courtney Carter worked on this ABC World News Tonight piece about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent gun control decision.
•Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, working this summer at The Oregonian, found a local angle on a national story.
•Michael Cohen and Jordan Shakeshaft’s audio package about the summer jobs crisis facing teens made City Limits. The story was part of the larger State of the Stimulus Craft II project. Meanwhile, the interactive map Alana Casanova-Burgess and Colby Hamilton put together as part of the Craft II Homeless With Homework project also earned a spot on City Limits’ site.
•Carla Candia’s story out of Chile for the AP about the campaign to ban cluster bombs got big pick-up, landing in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and Salon, among other places.
•Speaking of Chile, Erin McCarthy’s piece about that nation’s struggling fishing industry made the top of The Wall Street Journal’s Americas page – read it here – in Spanish.
•Speaking of The Journal, Alex Abad-Santos’s story about a unique pin-up calendar made The WSJ’s Metropolis site.
•Alex is a member of our summer Fort Greene Team, along with Thomas Chan, Liza Eckert and Mitch Trinka. Check out their latest work here.
•Juan DeJesus wrote about the attack on a Riverside Park jogger for NBC Local Integrated Media, while Maria Eugenia Miranda reported on the Lady Gaga “Today” show madness and Peggy Truong wrote about Sandra Bullock’s foray into music.
•Over at the Daily News, Ines Bebea reported on teens looking for summer jobs. Sherry Mazzocchi wrote about how some airline travelers are opting to send their luggage separately – via UPS. Speaking of travel, Joe Tacopino reported on a push to lift the ban on trips by U.S. citizens to Cuba. Meanwhile, Teresa Tomassoni wrote about how comic book shop owners are seeing signs of a modest economic recovery and Amy Yensi reported on a threat to senior centers.
In our alumni corner, Rima Abdelkader wrote about the end of Helen Thomas’ career in a piece for Women’s eNews. Damiano Beltrami’s print-and-video package about so-called boomerangers made The Huffington Post.