At the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, today, beginning at 10 a.m. Co-sponsored by New York Community Media Alliance:
With the economy and politics in turmoil, what are the election trends? Who do we watch, why and how do we get the story? Please join a panel of experts who can help shed light on how state and city governments work; who holds the purse strings; how to measure what’s happening on the ground; what all this could mean to your community.
The short version:
Before hunterword.com there was theword.hunter.cuny.edu and early on with the latter there were Alieu Sheriff and Rodney Sieh, who, as teens, had been chased out of, first, Gambia, then Liberia because of their news critical of government practices and policies. In Liberia, when word went out that they were to be shot on sight … (more…)
Maria Rosana Cruz, Project Coordinator, NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigration Affairs
Maria Rosana Cruz
By Amanze Emenike
Via New America Media
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary Posted: Apr 21, 2010
[NAM Editor’s Note: Recent attacks on Asian Americans by Black teenagers in San Francisco have led some to speculate that ethnic tensions in the city are on the rise. But one young black man who was taught by his peers to rob Asians and Latinos in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood says it’s not really about race. Amanze Emenike, 22, is a content producer for YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia]
Ashley Carpenter. Seen here reporting at the campaign headquarters of William C. Thompson, who went down swinging in the 2009 New York City Mayoral Race.
Carpenter – AKA the WORD’s AC 360 for stories, pictures and minidocs – will be appearing in ABC’s What Would You Do? tonight, Friday, May 7 at 9 p.m. EST.
Picture by Howard Monath
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“I’m going to spend wednesday talking to Reds…
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Serious journalists doing serious things for a business that is not taking them seriously right now.
Coming soon here and hunterword.com. Some limited insights. A few pictures for a tease. Shots taken at the Red Carpet World Premiere and Panel Discussion, The Other City. “In every city, including the capital of the most powerful country in the world, there is another city, a city of forgotten people and unspeakable shame.”
About the ravages of AIDS/HIV in the poor areas of Washington D.C.
Photographers. Primarily but not exclusively online entertainment publications. Two good quotes, QMfE, "If I'm here, you know this ain't front page stuff," and, "We do this for the money."