This is Evelyn Rivera and Eddie Marrero, two former workers at the Stella D’Oro cookie factory. They were gracious enough to let me into their homes for one of my final features for my RW1 course. My new feature story for The Bronx Ink about Eddie and Evelyn and their fellow Stella D’Oro workers who [...]
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Lost Jobs, Lost Family
December 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Journalism, Kingsbridge, RW1, The Bronx
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The Bronx Ink
October 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Journalism, Kingsbridge, RW1, The Bronx
My RW1 class Web site is up and running. You can check it out here.
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Saturday in Kingsbridge
September 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Kingsbridge, RW1, The Bronx
For my core class, Reporting and Writing 1, each of us was assigned a neighborhood in the Bronx as our beat. My neighborhood is Kingsbridge, which is basically between the last three stops on the 1. I had so many preconceptions about the Bronx before going up there, most of them involved crime, drugs, violence, [...]