- This week’s NYPulse podcast tackles a disturbing rise in hate crime. Chika Osaka produced the show and contributed a report. Jego Armstrong and Djenny Passe-Rodriguez also reported pieces. Check out the NYPulse on the News Service.
- AnnMarie Costella found a great story pounding her Maspeth beat: anger over plans to put a 27-foot-plus cell phone tower — disguised as a flagpole — atop a residential building. AnnMarie did some digging and learned that in Arizona, cell companies have been know to try to disguise the towers as cacti! Her piece made the Queens Courier.
- Damian Ghigliotty joined AnnMarie in the pages of The Courier with his contribution to an ongoing four-part series about day laborers.
- Erin O’Neill proved a double threat for the Greenpoint Star with her stories on an unsolved murder and the latest community v. developer clash over plans for the old Dominos Sugar refinery.
- Vinita Singla also covered the Dominos controversy in a follow-up story for Brooklyn’s Courier Life papers.
- Tanzina Vega scored a solo byline in the Times with her first contribution to the Neediest Cases series.
- Georgia Kral notched a solo byline of her own in this Times piece about a push in New Haven to put a time limit on public makeshift memorials for crime victims.
- Dan Rivoli contributed to this Daily News story about the tragic death of marathoner Ryan Shay.
- Laura Silver earned a full-page treatment in the Daily News for her profile of an inspiring young woman from Kosovo who’s making her mark in New York and beyond.
- Mariel DiSibio interviewed filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach for Independent magazine.
- Danny Massey got local reaction to the Pakistani crisis in a Newsday article. He also wrote about a would-be robber who messed with the wrong bodega owner and got caught, well, red handed.