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Sara Sugar cowrote a story with another J-Schooler about a former foster child’s unique friendship with Christine Quinn, which ended up on DNAInfo.com’s homepage. The child in question had been abandoned for being gay, and the story focused on the ways Quinn helped him.
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Sophia Rosenbaum’s wonderful and engaging piece about falling strawberry prices made The New York Times’ City Room blog! How exciting is that?
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The Riverdale Press, edited by alum Kate Pastor, took home 25 state and national awards.
These awards included 14 awards in the New York Press Association’s 2012 Better Newspaper Contest, which welcomes entries from community newspapers statewide, and 11 awards in the Local Media Association Editorial Contest, open to local papers nationwide. Congratulations! What a great accomplishment.
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Chester Soria, an urban reporting student who graduated from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism this past December, wrote one of the best follow-up stories to the political corruption scandal unfolding in the NYC Republican Party. We will forgive him for his generous quoting of his former professor, Doug Muzzio!
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Some intrepid students in Errol Louis’ political reporting class – or at least those who were free one recent night – decided to cover a mayoral forum that Errol was moderating. The result: a package of stories and photos for the Gotham Gazette.
They were up very late that night, some taking advantage of wi-fi at a local Popeye’s, but it was worth it. Toby Salinger and Emily Field used a smart Q&A format with great photos to elicit responses from the crowd; Chris Dell and Sara Sugar focused on the response to John Liu; and Sophie Rosenbaum, with a colleague from another class, produced an overview of the stop-and-frisk discussion that played out that night. Good deadline-writing practice!
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Last semester, Tom Robbins’ Urban Investigative Reporting class worked on a series about patronage in the Bronx courthouse system, in partnership with the Riverdale Press. They’ve produced a truly impressive package of stories that I hope will win them some prizes in the future, but at the very least, make for some fascinating reading.
I encourage you to check out their Courthouse patronage package.
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This has to do with the on-going confusion over the timing of the New York City primaries. As a recent piece by J-School alum Andy Hawkins (’07) made crystal clear, there is utter chaos still. And now there’s a new idea: let’s go back to the old machines! Only in New York…