Congrats again to all on the six Editor & Publisher EPPY Awards captured by our News Service. Check out some of our latest links – perhaps there are some future award winners among them:
•Jenna O’Donnell contributed to the Daily News’ Ebola coverage.
•Meral Agish worked on this Retro Report/New York Times look back at the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff.
•Patrick Donachie, on assignment for The Spirit, wrote about the 50th anniversary of the Bloomingdale School of Music. Oliver Morrison covered the “moving party” for an Upper West Side community center forced from its longtime home.
•Rosie Goldensohn shared the byline on this DNAInfo report, which revealed that families of some Rikers Island detainees who died were not told the real reasons why.
•Cole Rosengren wrote about an assembly race for Bronx Bureau.
•Jack D’Isidoro’s article about a blind marathon runner’s vision for a better future landed in The Queens Courier.
•Rose Itzcovitz’s Election Day story made The Hunts Point Express.
•Michaela Ross’s piece about the planned closure of a Bronx church found a home in the Norwood News.
•Brianna McGurran put together a preview of Sotheby’s fall auctions for the New York Observer.
•Chauncey Alcorn’s story about the struggle of some houses of worship to rebound from Sandy made Gotham Gazette.
•Natalie Abruzzo and Leila Falls hit the New York Botanical Garden’s pumpkin patch for a News Service story. Bianca Flowers and Reem Nasr reported on a Halloween party in Brooklyn. Beimeng Fu, Justin Joffe, Natasha Madov, Monica Melton, Natasha Scully and Karen Shakerdge contributed to our Marathon coverage.
•Speaking of our News Service… if you missed the latest edition of AudioFiles, check it out here. Contributors include: Natalie Abruzzo, Julia Alsop, Frank Green, Gwynne Hogan, Thad Komorowski, Reem Nasr, E.J. Stewart and Steve Trader.
•Jonathan Carey, Rahim Chagani, Maura Ewing, Allison Fox, Mia Garchitorena, Brian Josephs, Paul Liotta, Cariba Juline Party and Ana Rodriguez contributed to the Mott Haven Herald’s election coverage.
•Levi Sharpe’s story about couples who scrambled to find reception halls after a popular Brooklyn wedding venue closed made Brooklyn Based.
•Thad Komorowski, on assignment for WBGO, reported on the tenth anniversary rerelease of the horror flick “Saw.”
•Kiratiana Freelon and Pearl Macek profiled a marathon-training group called Black Men Run for Voices of NY. Julius Motal’s photos accompanied the Class of ‘07’s Marlene Peralta’s story about local Asian Americans flexing their political muscle.
Speaking of our alumni:
•Danny Gold appeared on NY1 last night to talk about his trip for Vice News to Monrovia, where he chronicled the devastation wrought by Ebola. Check out his chilling report here.
Congrats to all – and keep ‘em coming!