NY community papers struggle post-Sandy
Small papers were washed away when their readers most needed them, and they’re still recovering
Read moreElection 2012: CJR Meta Newsroom
On election night I helped live-blog media coverage for the Columbia Journalism Review’s Meta Newsroom project
Read moreFood Banks Left Reeling After Sandy
Early on the morning of Oct. 29, a handful of families huddled outside a West Harlem food pantry as wind and spitting rain swirled around them in advance of Hurricane Sandy’s arrival
Read moreNew bus line a boost for Hunts Point business
Ed Taylor usually finds himself in his car outside a subway station in the middle of the night, waiting to shuttle his employees to work deep inside the Hunts Point peninsula because there is no public transportation. The 3 a.m. runs will end for Taylor, however, as the MTA announced it would introduce a new bus line through western Hunts Point next year
Read moreHidden river may affect soccer arena
If construction does go ahead on a proposed soccer stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, the problems for Major League Soccer and its 25,000-seat arena may only just be beginning
Read moreFemme Fatale: Wrestling as Art
In a few hours, the doors will open to the Centre Sportif St-Barthélemy, and several hundred people – an eclectic mix of professional wrestling purists and assholes – will pour into the main gym space for Femmes Fatales IX, the only all women’s wrestling promotion in Canada and the second biggest in North America
Read moreHas the mainstream media been misrepresenting the student strike?
Quebec was under the media spotlight this spring as students took to the streets in a showdown with the Charest government over tuition hikes. Now, with protests dwindling and summer setting in, media attention has waned, leaving the door open for public scrutiny of mainstream media’s treatment of the events of Quebec’s student movement
Read more‘Political vendetta’ against Native Friendship Centre of Montreal
The Native Friendship Centre of Montreal (NFCM) is battling a “political vendetta,” according to Brett Pineau, the Centre’s executive director
Read more1,589 arrested so far in student strike
The student strike is now in its 103rd day, with over half the arrests made in the last five days, as new legislation has prompted police to crack down harder on protestors
Read more2nd night of protest under Bill 78: More than 300 arrests, flooding, injuries
Two days after legislation aimed at pacifying student protests went into effect, protesters and police clashed violently once again on Sunday night, culminating in mass arrests and at least two people hospitalized
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