Entries Tagged as ‘journalism’

February 29, 2008

Bags (Still) For Sale

I joined my classmates Roisin O’Connor, Rosaleen Ortiz and Mathew Warren for a walk around the “counterfeit triangle,” as Mayor Bloomberg calls it, near Centre and Canal streets to see the effects of Tuesday’s police raid of the fake bag & watch vendors.

photo by Roisin O’Connor
Just a day after the shutdown, it was easy to [...]

February 15, 2008

Stepping it up for live blogging

I feel invigorated by the pace set for the live-blog event I did at Tuesday’s AUC/ICFJ film screening. It’s true that journalists get a bang out of their work just from the energy required to get the story. It took some time for me to find a stride between reading subtitles and responding to the [...]

February 12, 2008

February 12 ICFJ-AUC film screening

The following is a live-blog post of the documentary shorts screening, “First-Person Films: Student Documentaries from Egypt”, sponsored by The American University in Cairo and the International Center for Journalists, hosted in New York City’s Tribeca Grand Hotel.
Six films were shown: The Art of Mandur (Fan Mandur), Kasr El Masr: Palace of Critical Care, [...]

February 12, 2008

Tune in at 6 for ICFJ-AUC film screening

I have the awesome responsibility to bring you live-blog coverage from the Tribeca Grand Hotel of this evening’s screening, “First-Person Films: Student Documentaries from Egypt”, sponsored by the International Center for Journalists.  
The screening will show six short documentary films made by students from the American University in Cairo.  Their instructor, Emmy-award winning video [...]

December 16, 2007

Election coverage: take the good with the bad

I new if I read through enough comments on Adaora Udoji and John Hockenberry’s blog “Your Billion Dollar President,” I’d find the one I dreaded–that “what’s wrong” with the presidential election is the media’s fault. A recent comment by “James” didn’t pull punches:
I believe that we need to silence the infotainment community by dissallowing their [...]

October 17, 2007

On p.1

I was surprised to look for my little article on a marching band competition and find it as the lead interest story of the Rockland Journal News for that Monday.
It was a fun event between several high school bands in the metro area. They take their competitions very seriously and travel to a lot [...]