Category: Writing
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Hidden Malcontents: New York’s Christmas Tree Industry
Once their signs are up and tree stands built, these yuletide vendors must carefully schedule their daily or weekly tree deliveries and conscript enough bodies to peddle the merchandise around the clock: snow or shine. For some, this can be an international operation, attracting workers from as far away as Canada and Australia. But while…
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Nearly complete: A war photographer’s Libyan “Revolution.”
Ten years ago when Denton stood on New York University’s campus as a new student at Tisch School for the Arts’ department of photography and imaging, he was thinking about pursuing a career in fashion photography when the planes hit the Twin Towers.
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Technology Opens Fire: Looking at Conflict Differently
The LRA Tracker is a unique online aggregation system that allows viewers a first-hand look at conflict as it develops. The system processes and publishes information about LRA attacks, abductions and sightings gathered from a network of local reporters, non-profit and humanitarian organizations.
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Queens Mamas: A blog and a business model
Lena Calas never imagined that a post on “childcare in the big city” would spawn a business that could become a model for jumpstarting the ailing economy.
Adam McCauley 