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Julia Ramey Serazio | Jan 12th, 2010 | Topic: Governance | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York, Philadelphia |
It turns out that I was helping pay someone’s cable bill when I thought I was helping the homeless. Here, the story of a scam—and a roundup of very real organizations that will use your cash to make real change. (
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Rachel Somerstein | Jan 7th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Rachel Somerstein, who spent several years living in and enjoying central Harlem, weighs in on a recent
New York Times article that described Harlem as “no longer majority black”—and the debate raging in wake of its publication. (
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Lee Shaker | Oct 13th, 2009 | Topic: Governance | Region: | Cities: |
Lee Shaker reports and comments on a new report from the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, a response to the downward spiral of local newspapers across America. The report offers 15 recommendations to secure the future of journalism. (
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Julia Ramey Serazio | Oct 6th, 2009 | Topic: Governance | Region: | Cities: Washington, D.C. |
Next American City, with support from the Rockefeller Center, is hosting a two-day conference in Washington, D.C. called Open Cities: New Media’s Role in Shaping Urban Policy. The 75 attendees, all urban advocates, will seek to link their common goals and shape a federal urban policy agenda that includes new media. Click through to learn more about the conference, and read periodic a recap of the first day. (
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Ariella Cohen | Jun 22nd, 2009 | Topic: | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans |
Dan Baum’s blog
post on the New York Times website on Friday illustrates the problems of narrating a city from a distance. (
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Jody Pollock | Mar 5th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
A look at how
Slumdog Millionaire has changed the way people look at—and visit—slums around the world. (
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Ben Adler | Jan 13th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
The Catholic school population in New York City is dropping precipitously, but why? (
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Diana Lind | Nov 26th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans |
Next American City’s
Brentin Mock wrote about the controversy surrounding New Orleans Charity Hospital for our Summer 2008 issue (No. 19) months ago — now the story is making national news with a little help from the
Times. (
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Meredith Aska McBride | Apr 10th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Houston |
Hospitals’ stir fears, sect youths conditioned to deceive outsiders, Olympic torch relay switches route and more in today’s headlines.
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Diana Lind | Apr 7th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
This past weekend saw the latest edition of the
New York Times’s Key magazine. Usually a source of real estate porn, the magazine usually looks at the froth in the housing market and winks. With the exception of a piece about a company that tends to magnates’ private wineries, the latest issue was decidedly sober. More details in today’s featured commentary by
Next American City editor Diana Lind.
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It turns out that I was helping pay someone’s cable bill when I thought I was helping the homeless. Here, the story of a scam—and a roundup of very real organizations that will use your cash to make real change. (keep reading…)
Rachel Somerstein, who spent several years living in and enjoying central Harlem, weighs in on a recent New York Times article that described Harlem as “no longer majority black”—and the debate raging in wake of its publication. (keep reading…)
This past weekend saw the latest edition of the New York Times’s Key magazine. Usually a source of real estate porn, the magazine usually looks at the froth in the housing market and winks. With the exception of a piece about a company that tends to magnates’ private wineries, the latest issue was decidedly sober. More details in today’s featured commentary by Next American City editor Diana Lind. (keep reading…)
