The West Bank city of Hebron is as fraught with conflict as it is holy. Palestinians and Jews barely coexist in the divided city. I visited with sixteen Columbia journalism students and produced this for my radio class.
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Of the 48 million people expected to visit New York City this year, it’s unlikely many of them will make it to Inwood, the northernmost neighborhood in Manhattan. Maybe that’s because for years these neighborhoods have literally been off the map.
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Inwood’s children will soon have a new place to play, but some community members worry about the lessons the renovated Indian Road Playground will teach when it reopens this fall. Members of Manhattan’s Native American community say they were left out of the planning process and that the resulting design is stereotypical and offensive.
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Listen to Audio Version: Inwood Community Garden (*) In the small, neglected corner of Inwood’s Dyckman Marina, volunteers of the Inwood Gardener Initiative transformed a black stockade steel fence into a community vegetable and flower garden. Serendipitously-named Linda Gardener inaugurated the vertical garden when she mounted six sturdy, black panels and 48 planting pouches on [...]
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New York City subway driver George Fernandez has been driving trains for 26 years. From behind the wheel, he sees danger, stupidity and desperation of which the public is completely ignorant. Perhaps the most horrific example is the “12-9:” the MTA’s radio code for Man Under. Fernandez says he faces jumpers, people pretending to jump, and people who fall retrieving items from the tracks on a daily basis. He tries to numb these experiences at the end of the working day, because otherwise he says he couldn’t do his job.
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Our second assignment this week as part of our radio training was to record an “audio postcard” from any location in the city: to capture the sound and feel of some place in under three minutes. The two examples linked below both explore a place that is significant to cultural identity, in two very different [...]
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In my first ever broadcast piece reported, written, edited, and produced for radio, I interview talented pianist Feifan Oh of the Manhattan School of Music. Feifan moved to New York City from Malaysia when she was 17 (she’s now 20) to pursue her love of piano. This wonderful interview subject expounds on how acclimating to [...]
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