April 12 - April 18, 2008
Looks like everybody has really earned the Spring Break respite. Here are the latest fruits of your labors:
- Linnea Covington wrote a very timely story about Passover cooking for The Brooklyn Paper.
- Cristina Alesci wrote a piece for the Daily News about a program that helps train high school students for the business world.
- Claudia Cruz reported on efforts to break gridlock on 181st St. for the Manhattan Times Meeting Tackles 181st St. Gridlock(PDF).
- Joe Filippazzo’s piece about the effects of record high oil prices on fishing in Sheepshead Bay made the Bay News.
- Coney Island is filled with characters and Henry Stewart found one of them: a guy who wants to bring trolley service to the area. His story made Bay Currents (PDF).
- So, what does Eliot Spitzer do next? Carl Winfield takes a shot at that question in the latest issue of The Capitol (I have a copy in my office for anyone who wants to read the article).
Meanwhile, I just posted a slew of new TV pieces to the news service site, including stories by:
- Abimbola Ishola (About a proposed solution to traffic problems in East New York)
- Emily Mayer (On challenges faced by women boxers)
- Megan McGibney (On the Staten Island sushi boom)
- Tyler Mitter (On the increase in organic food sales)
- Adeola Oladele (On how the weakened dollar is hurting folks abroad who rely on money sent from the U.S.)
- Steve Pacer (On a new bar that’s trying to buck the economic odds)
- Djenny Passe-Rodriguez (On efforts to landmark a Chelsea building that may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad)
- Jennifer Saavedra (About confusion encountered by seniors trying to navigate the Medicare Part D prescription plan)
- Anna Limontas-Salisbury (On a Brownsville businesswoman who specializes in personalized party favors)
- Vinita Singla (On the downtown in business faced by Spa owners in Brooklyn)
Check out their great work!
Speaking of video… Be sure to watch alum Chika Osaka’s very lively piece for Reuters (I’m sorry, that’s Thomson Reuters, now) on Tokyo’s cross-dressing maid cafe.
Tags: Abimbola Ishola, Adeola Oladele, Anna Limontas-Salisbury, Carl Winfield, Chika Osaka, Claudia Cruz, Cristina Alesci, Djenny Passe-Rodriguez, Emily Mayer, Henry Stewart, Jennifer Saavedra, Joe Filippazzo, Linnea Covington, Megan McGibney, Steve Pacer, Tyler Mitter, Vinita Singla