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Farmers Struggle as Commodity Prices Rise

Farmers in the Midwest have more than doubled their profits since 2005 by selling grains like corn and soybeans. In the country’s biofuel craze, Northeast farmers, who mainly raise livestock, ended up on the wrong side of the tipping […]

Check out the first video I shot and edited.
Last year monks from the Dalai Lama monastery in India came to NYC as part of their Compassionate Mandala Tour to raise awareness of Tibetan culture. While in New York they created a mandala at St. John the Divine :

The monks also performed in a concert […]

Here’s a package Annie Shreffler and I worked on for our International Reporting class about how Dominican-Americans learn about their African heritage through music and dance.
We talked to a dance troop in Washington Heights, a singer who recently moved to Brooklyn from the Dominican Republic, a palos drummer from the Bronx, and a professor and […]

The weekend before Super Tuesday Daniel Macht and I traveled from the Grand Concourse in the Bronx to Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan with the Latinos For Obama Caravan of Hope.
The article and the related video were posted both on the Huffington Post’s Off the Bus the school’s NYCity News Service.

The weekend before super Tuesday Daniel Macht and I talked to 6- to 7-year old girls about some of the main issues being debated in this election year.
Here’s the package we put together for the Huffington Post’s Off the Bus.

Life in New York City unfolds both above and below ground. And the city has thousands of untold stories of those who spend most of their time under its streets -from MTA workers or subway performers to the homeless sleeping on the benches of our subway cars.
This is one of those stories. And as so […]

by Annie Shreffler (full credits after article)
Mayor Bloomberg and Rolex executives are pleased with this week’s Chinatown crackdown on counterfeits. But those who frequent Canal street vendors can still find fake handbags despite a block of shuttered shops.

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Sitting inside his corner news kiosk near Centre Street, the “newspaper man,” as […]