Clips of the Week

Hard to believe we’re entering the final month of the semester. Here are some of the latest results of our reporters’ continuing hard work:

• Joshua Cinelli wrote an article for City Hall about local efforts to boost the economy by luring more foreign investment.
• We all know quitting smoking saves lives and money – Francesca Levy offers a state-by-state look at the dollars kept by kicking the habit in this article-and-slideshow package for Forbes.
• Heather Chin reaped the benefits of hopping on a breaking story with her video piece about the New York Times hoax edition distributed last week. Her video accompanies an article put together in short order by the News Service class.
• Joe Filippazzo’s News Service story about Bobby Fischer’s FBI file was picked up by El Nuevo Herald, and got many blog links.
• Karina Ioffee profiled a popular sari tailor for the Queens Courier. (Note: as of this writing, the link seems to be broken. I’ll check into it.)
• Sergey Kadinsky wrote about incumbent Assemblymember Marge Markey’s reelection for the Queens Tribune (I have a copy in my office – feel free to come by for a look.)
• If you missed our latest podcasts during the week, check them out here: Health Pods, produced by Loren Bonner, Shuka Kalantari, and Djenny Passe-Rodriguez; and This Place Called Home, produced by Linnea Covington, Celina Fang, and Tyler Mitter.
• Collin (Hoops) Orcutt predicts great things for the Lakers in his latest Men’s Fitness blog post.
• Busy Barry Paddock shared a byline on this Daily News story about a drunk driving tragedy.

The weather is getting cooler, but our hot streak continues. Here are some of the latest pieces:

• It’s not even Halloween, buy many of us already are beginning to think about holiday travel plans. Before sure to check out these Forbes.com pieces by Francesca Levy  about the best and worst times to fly and  how to save on holiday travel.
• Joshua Cinelli tackles the potential impact of Wall Street’s woes on public pension systems for City Hall.
• Jenni Avins’ story about a former temple that’s been reborn as a mosque made the Queens Courier.
• H’Rina DeTroy’s article about East Village anger over the slow pace of a playground rebuilding project was featured in The Villager.
• H’Rina was joined in The Villager by Matt Townsend, who wrote about a pedestrian mall improvement plan along Allen Street.
• Megan McGibney put together a video piece for nypost.com on the race Staten Islanders seem to care about most this year: the contest to replace disgraced Rep. Vito Fossella.
• Abi Ishola’s been hosting the News of the Week segment for CUNY TV’s Independent Sources, a new show, produced by Prof. Prout, about the ethnic media. Abi’s segments are usually about 17 minutes into each show. But be sure check out the full broadcasts – it’s a great way to learn more about what’s going on, and to pick up story ideas and pinpoint more potential outlets for your work.
• Annie Shreffler’s been added The Huffington Post’s OffTheBus masthead for a feature she started, called Eyes and Ears, which solicits fun election-related items.
• Barry Paddock covered a heartbreaking fatal fire story for the Daily News.
• Caitlin Drexler dished up some food-world news for Saveur’s Word of Mouth blog.
• If you missed this week’s live audio webcast of Health Pods – produced by Loren Bonner, Shuka Kalantari, and Djenny Passe-Rodriguez – check it out here.
• Vinita Singla’s timely TV piece about voter registration drives and her companion print story made the News Service.

Congrats to all – and keep ‘em coming!

• Matt Townsend placed stories about Orchard Street’s struggles – and Hillary Clinton’s struggles – on the New York Observer’s website.
• Loren Bonner followed up on the Victory Memorial Hospital closure saga for the Brooklyn Paper.
• Linnea Covington also made the Brooklyn Paper with her profile of a local karaoke king.
• Henry Stewart and Joe Filippazzo shared the front page of the Feb. 25 Brooklyn Daily Eagle with stories about Coney Island and Gerritsen Beach, respectively.
• Stephen Bronner did a quick turnaround for amNY, covering a City Council hearing on a new wireless information system for cops and firefighters.
• Cristina Alesci’s story about picking insurance policies made the Daily News’ Your Money section.
• Barry Paddock also was busy for the Daily News, earning three contributor tags in one day, and sharing a byline on this murder story where he trounced the competition.
• Two multimedia packages from Sandeep’s class, featuring some impressive teamwork, made the news service site: Lakshmi Gandhi, Christiana Oliveira and Dana Oliver combined to tell how 1,000 more fruit and vegetable carts are coming to city streets.
• Linnea Covington, Dan Macht and Mellissa Seecharan teamed to cover a protest of a company that runs senior citizen housing in New York and around the nation.

Our alumni were hard at work, too:

• Sebastian Bednarski produced a video on some young chefs for NYpost.com.
• Angela Hill reported this very timely story about racial identity and political power for WNYC.

• Our Team New Hampshire — Eliot Caroom, Joshua Cinelli, Claudia Cruz, Lakshmi Gandhi, Daniel Macht and Matt Townsend rocked the Granite State, contributing print pieces, pictures, slideshows and videos to offthebus.com, an off-shoot of the Huffington Post. (Their fine work, by the way, is the latest product of a relationship forged with Off the Bus at Prof. Jarvis’ October Networked Journalism conference.) Check out results of one wild weekend — including Joshua’s video of the Bill O’Reilly-Obama aide tussle.
  • Paulites Raid Their Piggybanks To Support Ron Paul
  • Obama Takes Subtle Jab At Hillary In NH
  • Kucinich Attacks ABC News And Decries “Dittos”
  • Bay Buchanan, Tom Tancredo Shill For Romney
  • Off the Candidate Track: Voices from Plymouth, New Hampshire
  • Steelworkers Sold on Edwards
  • One Latino Voter For Obama
  • Michelle Obama Poaches Voters From Rival Camps
  • Chewing the Fat at Munce’s
• Loren Bonner proved the value of follow-up in this piece for the Brooklyn Paper about the effect of Victory Memorial Hospital’s turmoil on moms-to-be.
• In just his second day out, Barry Paddock scored the wood (front page story) for the Daily News, contributing to this piece on the surging Giants.
• Barry’s neighborhood beat piece about a dispute over a community garden in East Harlem made yesterday’s paper.
• Maureen Ker also notched a Daily News clip by reworking her live-in piece about a Flushing fortune teller.
• Chika Osaka had a TV piece about bringing French to public schools and Megan Kelty had one about using laser surgery to battle a serious eye problem suffered by diabetics – both among the latest additions to the News Service.
• Heather Appel went far beyond the general findings in a report on infant mortality and turned in this great story for the Daily News.
• In the you-saw-it-here-first department. Remember our Election Day photo project? Check out this New York Times link.

• Our graduation speaker Angela Hill was busy until the very end of the semester, placing an article in the Hunts Point Express about plans to turn a small island off the Bronx into an environmental study center. She also wrote a story about a Queens jump rope competition for the Daily News.
• Tanzina Vega, Matt Sollars and Ana Toro touted their fine multi-media capstone projects on the Brian Lehrer TV show on Wednesday. You can also check out their work on the News Service site.
• Tanzina notched a New York Times clip with her solo byline story about a young man turning his life around – along with an accompanying slide show.
• Mathew Warren also made the Times by contributing to the Ground Zero construction accident coverage.
• Eliot Caroom wrote a piece for The Hunts Point Express about an anti-gay hate attack on two men – going beyond a paint-by-numbers crime story.
• Loren Bonner, writing for the Brooklyn Paper, chronicled the latest chapter in Victory Memorial Hospital’s fight for life.
• Matt Townsend wrote about community opposition to a liquor license application for a hotel slated to rise on E. 5th St. Check out his story in The Villager.
• Our latest podcast focuses on the shrinking music club scene – and features our own Ben Levisohn’s band. Tyler Mitter, Adeola Oladele and Jennifer Saavedra contributed reports.
• Claudia Cruz wrote about the rock ‘em sock ‘em roller derby revival for the Manhattan Times.
• And, appropriately ending on a holiday note, Shuka Kalantari made the pages of Chelsea Now with her story on Operation Santa.

• TiVo Alert: Set your DVRs for 20-20 tonight at 10 p.m., Channel 7. The story Angela Hill spent her summer working on as part of her Carnegie Corporation-supported internship with ABC’s Brian Ross Investigative Unit airs tonight. For a print preview, check out Angela’s piece on abc.com. The topic: Soldiers and Drugs.
• Loren Bonner scored a byline in The Brooklyn Paper with her followup piece on Victory Memorial Hospital’s fight for life.
• Vinita Singla also made pages of The Brooklyn Paper with her story on the impending sale of a particularly noisy Williamsburg bar.
• Vinita also combined with Joe Filippazzo, Tyler Mitter and Daniel Teigman to turn a Craft assignment into a clip with this holiday shopping story for Our Town.
• Also showing the J-School spirit of cooperation were Tanzina Vega and Mathew Warren, who both worked on this tragic story for the New York Times.
• Carolyn Nardiello scored a solo byline in today’s Times with her poignant, personal piece about family trips past to Long Island’s northern shore.
• Francesca Levy chronicled a dive bar’s planned move from the east side to the west side of W. 14th St. in this article for Chelsea Now.
• Matt Townsend offered a sobering look at rising milk and food prices in the latest edition of The Riverdale Press.
• Dorian Davis reported on the raucous City Planning Commission hearing on Columbia’s Manhattanville expansion plan in this Architectural Record article.
• Kate Pastor offered a look at some of the legal wranglings involving the Columbia plan in a story for City Limits.
• Our latest podcast explores at how the city’s older set is embracing the net. Khadijah Cole produced the podcast, with reports by Abimbola Ishola and Anna Limontas-Salisbury.
• Joe Hirsch looked at the conflict between some usual allies over the fate of the Bronx’s Oak Point rail yard. Check out his piece in The Hunts Point Express.
• Danny Massey published an article in Crain’s New York Business about the growing demand for techno-savvy advertising creatives. He also was busy for Newsday with this followup story about the lawsuit filed by the ousted principal of a Brooklyn Arabic language and culture school.
• Heather Appel was equally ubiquitous, publishing a piece in amNew York about a new online registry of accessible apartments for people with disabilities, and contributing to the Daily News’ coverage of the ongoing transit fare saga.

• Damian Ghigliotty and Joe Hirsch contributed to the Queens Courier’s ongoing series about immigrant day laborers: Damian tells the inside story of clubs where men who left loved ones at home go after work and pay $2 a dance to wile away the loneliness. Joe profiled a 50-something laborer who is ready to return to his family in Mexico after a disappointing 12-year stint in the U.S.
  Damian also wrote a piece about voter apathy for the paper.
• Loren Bonner reported that Bay Ridge’s Victory Memorial Hospital appears on its deathbed in this story for The Brooklyn Paper.
• Matt Townsend chronicled the unlikely alliance between bike polo players and Lower East Side kids to stop a dogrun from opening in Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Check out his piece in The Villager.
• Francesca Levy also made The Villager with this look at what little kids’ Halloween costumes say about their parents.
• Dmitry Kiper profiled Gogol Bordello “gypsy-punk” violinist Sergey Ryabtsev for the latest Brooklyn Rail.
• Marlene Peralta covered the arrest of a suspect in an Upper East Side jewelry store slaying that grabbed headlines in this Newsday story.
• Danny Massey also made Newsday with this Day 2 story about the Broadway strike.
• Andrew Hawkins is the hardest working man in City Hall. Here are just a couple of his stories: One about how some pols are riding Mayor Bloomberg’s financial coattails and this piece about effort to get the city to help veterans.
• Mariel DiSibio and Georgia Kral were busy at the New York Times. Mariel wrote about the increase in cats flooding pet shelters in Yonkers and beyond.
• Georgia reported on how a Westport school has learned what a drag it is getting mold.
• This week’s podcast was sounds as a dollar, er, euro. The sad state of the dollar and its effect on New York was the topic of the show, which featured reports by Vinita Singla and Sebastian Bednarski, who also produced the podcast. Check it out on the News Service site.
• Speaking of the News Service, Joseph Gargiulo scored our first Staten Island story: a piece about a new city bus route connecting Staten Island to Bayonne.
• Claudia Cruz had a front page piece for the Manhattan Times on anger at P.S. 314 over the Dept. of Ed’s new school rating system.