Celebrating Community
(photo above: Brett Yates, winner of the Thomas Butson Award for In-Depth Journalism) I started the Red Hook Star-Revue ten years ago this summer. The main reason was that I like the newspaper business, a second reason was that I found Red Hook a challenging and interesting community, which I suspected had lots of stories to tell. A third […]
Displacement Is No Myth Across the country, gentrification continues to be a sexy political topic for those least vulnerable to its effects, booming in and echoing out of consciousness. Regarding gentrification and the Black church in NYC, displacement is top of mind. For those most negatively affected by gentrification; lower-income, and long time residents, mostly people of color, gentrification […]
The big take-away from the 166th annual convention of the NY Press Association is that weekly and monthly print newspapers are far from dead. Kevin Slimp, a newspaper consultant and technology trainer, gave that message at his two-day seminar sessions. Slimp travels the country advising newspapers and through both polling and hands-on observation has seen the upturn. “Readers love a […]
Sarah Matusek and Emily Kluver walked off with the top prizes for feature writing, in the 2017 NY State Press Association Better Newspaper contest. The winners were announced at their spring convention in Albany. Sarah won top honors for her front page story about Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle. Wall’s began her professional writing career in the 1970’s […]