While the majority of my time each week as editor of the Downtown Express was spent assigning stories, working with the advertising sales staff and laying out the paper, I was also able to contribute editorial content and individual reporting, as well as photography, on a regular basis.
Here is a sampling of my reporting for the Downtown Express:
March against police brutality is ‘American Spring’ preview
When a typical Tuesday turns into a ‘Big Blue day’
P.A.C. has new leader, defined direction
Park51 debate continues with lawsuit, Con Ed and MTA
EDITORIALS
Below are a few editorials I pitched and wrote while covering the news in Lower Manhattan. At the New York Press Association’s 2012 Better Newspapers Contest, the Downtown Express earned a second place for Best Editorials amongst NY State papers with the highest circulation.
One year after taking the job at Downtown Express, I was delighted to hear another Sag Harbor Express Alumn, a wonderful reporter that once interned for us and eventually took my job when I left for NYC, would soon be my competition as she took over editorial responsibilities at another Lower Manhattan weekly. Read more here:
Its Friendly Competition for Two Former Reporters
A sampling of my work for the Sag Harbor Express:
Features
Giving the trapeze a try in Bridgehampton in 2007. Photo by Michael Heller.
I won a first place award from the New York Press Association in 2008 for this story, in the Sports Feature category. Had I not found the guts to actually try it, the story would have been a lot less interesting.
Cracking the Rock: Running the Shelter Island 10K
Surfing for Smiles (pdf)
News
Protest Pushes Cop Cuts Off Table
Sports
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