WNYC.org Interactive work created at WNYC Public Radio station
Your Uncommon Economic Indicators: a crowd sourcing project with The Brian Lehrer Show, inviting listeners to post their stories, submit photos and video, or even call in their observations on how the New York City metro area is changing during the 2009 recession.
The project has been mentioned on:
The New York Times City Room and Freakonomics blogs, PBS’s Idea Lab and The Daily Buzz !Videos created for the project:
Career Day at Riverside Church
Reverend Billy interviews small business owners in East Village
Visit Those in Need
Don’t Toss it, Fix it!
2008 Vendy Awards: an annual benefit for the Street Vendors Project operated by the Urban Justice League. The event was held in the funky Tobacco Factory in DUMBO and raised $30,000 to help the SVP advocate for push cart operators and lobby the city to change vending laws.
New Yorkers Visit Parks Hosting Outdoor Performances is about a program by the NYC Parks Foundation to inspire neighbors to get involved in their local park. I was lucky to meet dedicated volunteers at Crotona Park in the Bronx and to see a beautiful set of solo dance performances by the Joyce Theater Co. in East River Park. Both park links are to slide shows.
A Walk Down 125th Street An audio slide show narrated by culture reporter Siddhartha Mitter about the changes coming to this famous NYC neighborhood.
is a page on the WNYC website that features recordings of poets from icons like Maya Angelou and Robert Frost to upcoming poets like Regie Cabico, Baba Israel, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowitz and Aracelis Girmay reading their work.
WNYC Says Goodbye to a City Landmark: The Municipal Building. I had the opportunity to walk around and take photos of the place where WNYC has lived for 84 years. Kathleen Horan, the reporter who did the story, even got me to the top of the building, under the golden lady “Civic Pride”, to see a spectacular view.
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism work created for j-school classes
Afro-Dominican Music and Religious Ritual an International Reporting assignment about Dominicans in NYC, Multi-media package created with classmate Rosaleen Ortiz
Sound Slides
West to East and around 125th Street (complete set of photos, Music by Otis Redding)
More Video
NYC Kicks of World Water Week in Battery Park
The Future of New York Conference at the Hyatt Hotel, February 3, 2009
Protesters Rush The Future of New York Conference
The Future of New York Conference interview Dick Dadey
The Future of New York Conference interview with Stan GraysonThe Brian Lehrer Show–Farewell to Executive Producer Nuala McGovern
Waterfalls Public Art Project by Olafur Eliasson (part of WNYC joint reporting package)
Podcasts, Maps, Graphics, etc.
Canal Street After Counterfeit Raid (group project, my headless interview)
More About Traffic in NYC (first attempt at an entire webpage)
