Clips of the Week

• Claudia Cruz was busy in two states, heading to her old stomping grounds of Ohio and filing three pre-primary story packages for Off The Bus. Check out her work, here, here and here. She also found time to file an article – in English and Spanish – for the Manhattan Times about a first-of-its-kind study of spending habits of Dominicans in the U.S.
• “Busy” Barry Paddock also was hard at work. He contributed to several Daily News stories, including covering a murder at his local supermarket ! He also scored his first Daily News solo byline with this light, bright and tight Page 2 story about a Fay Wray scream-a-like contest at the Film Forum. An expanded version of Barry’s live-in piece about an author who turned his job at Chelsea specialty foods store in a book was picked up by Chelsea Now.
• AnnMarie Costella’s story about a new controversy surrounding Harry Houdini’s death made the Daily News.
• Maureen Ker took a run of the mill wire piece about a medical study on acupuncture and fertility, and gave it a local angle – and a (very cute) human face. Her story – complete with a picture of a happy mom and her newborn daughter – was published in am New York.
• Jessica Firger’s story about a bunch of clowns with a serious message made Beyond Race magazine’s website, along with one of her pictures.
• Exhibiting some good street reporting and teamwork, Roisin O’Connor-McGinn, Rosaleen Ortiz, Annie Shreffler and Mathew Warren hit Chinatown the day after a much-ballyhooed raid on peddlers of counterfeit designer good. They found some hawkers who were still doing business. The team’s multi-media package can be found on the News Service.
• Clark Merrefield’s story about the battle to unionize part-time workers at the Lower East Side Tenement museum also can be found on the News Service.

Speaking of the News Service… check out our new News Map. Special thanks to Drew Geraets, Joe Filippazzo and Dana Oliver for making it happen.

• In our alumni corner, Tanzina Vega’s feature about Colombian party buses in NYC not only made the New York Times’ Sunday paper, it also was the day’s most emailed Metro section story.

• 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.

• 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.

• Marlene Peralta got the wood again — this time in today’s Newsday — for her great follow up story on the driver who was critically injured in the Lexington Ave. steam pipe blast. She also contributed to another headline grabber: the murder of a Queens dentist.
• Heather Appel showed some range this week with an environmental story for the Daily News and a Bronx murder tale for the Norwood News.
• Claudia Cruz wrote about holistic health practices (PDF) in Washington Heights for the Manhattan Times.
• Amy Goldstein’s piece about efforts to rename a school after a beloved principal, Nadia Zonis’ article on controversial plans for a new hotel on a deserted Bronx street, and Joe Hirsch’s takeout on Citgo’s/Hugo Chavez’ latest involvement in the Bronx helped enliven the pages of the Mount Hope Monitor.
• We also contributed some eminently fit-to-print news at the Times: Mariel DiSibio wrote about a land dispute between The villages of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow.
• Carolyn Nardiello chronicled the protest over new requirements for animal owners on Long Island.
• Georgia Kral wrote about Connecticut’s lawsuit against the FAA.
• Tanzina Vega contributed to the Times’ coverage of the slain dentist.
• Mathew Warren was all over town for the Times, contributing to several stories, including this breaking news building collapse piece.
• Clark Merrifield hit the stats and found that there’s a big problem with water main breaks on the Lower East Side. The Villager picked up his story.
• Joshua Cinelli notched two pieces in the Norwood News: One about community concerns about plans to redevelop the Kingsbridge Armory and another about a senior citizens protest of the war.
• Eliot Caroom wrote about a Bronx salvage yard’s efforts to go green for the Hunts Point Express.
• Dan Rivoli told Daily News readers the show will go on for a Croatian rock band accused of glorifying the Nazis.

• Georgia Kral notched a co-byline in this New York Times story about the primary election victory of the under-investigation mayor of Hartford.
• Mathew Warren shared a byline in this Times story about the evacuation of a troubled West Harlem building.
• Dorian Davis’ piece about much-rumored plans for an 800-story building in Japan made for fine reading in Architectural Record.
• Andrew Hawkins wrote a strong piece for Sunday’s Daily News about Southeast Asian immigrants in the Bronx who are quietly battling internal demons decades after leaving Cambodia and Vietnam.
• Want to eat well on the cheap — and get a little fresh air? Check out Matt Sollars’ Daily News piece about the streetcorner chefs vying for the most prized of New York culinary awards: The Vendys.
• Danny Massey broke news with his piece about an internet-based campaign to stop the annual United American Muslim Day Parade. His article, published in Newsday, spurred some debate on the cable TV gabfests. But as Ana Toro and Tanzina Vega show in their companion video piece, the protesters couldn’t rain on the peaceful parade.
• After Cristina Alesci covered a protest by tenants who live in a violation-ridden West Harlem building, she knew she wanted to stick with the story and began digging deeper. What she didn’t know was that just six days later the residents would be evacuated from their homes by the FDNY, which declared the building unsafe. Thanks to her contacts, she was able to get pictures from inside the building and managed to track one of the displaced residents to a homeless shelter, giving a human face to the story.

• Tanzina Vega scored a single-byline piece in the Times, profiling a cabbie with an only-in-New-York story.
• Danny Massey covered the opening of the controversial new Arab language/Middle Eastern Culture middle school in Brooklyn for the News Service – and got the story published in Newsday.
• In another story that originated in the News Service class, Brigid Bergin found a great local angle on the taxi strike – and her reporting made it onto WNYC.
• A TV report by Jego Armstrong and Chika Osaka about a state campaign to help Ground Zero workers get worker’s comp now leads the News Service.