How clean are the streets in your beat neighborhood? How many water main breaks were reported in FY08? What is the average response time to all critical crimes in progress in your beat? How many 311 calls have come in to complain about illegal parking??? Answer these questions and many more with My Neighborhood Statistics, […]
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Community Districts and District Managers and City Planning and…
Perhaps you have already been assigned a beat neighborhood, or a community district to cover, and are not sure exactly what a community district is, or where your beat is located? Here are some ways to start discovering your new beat. Scoping Out Your Beat is a guide with links to some crucial resources, including […]
News As It Breaks
Want to be the first on the scene? Use Gothamist Maps to get a snapshot of police, fire & rescue activity around the 5 boroughs (e.g. “Plane Crash into Building, East 72nd St & 1st Ave”). Then race over there to get the story. Are you witnessing something as it unfolds? If so, you can […]
Visual NYC Data for RW1 Students
The Journalism School along with the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning created an amazing new reporting resource for RW1 students – an electronic map of New York City that allows students to view census data by neighborhood, election district, etc. To use this resource, and for more information on how to use it, […]
How to…Get the AP Day Schedule
If you want to pull up the New York daily schedule from the Associated Press, and are not in a Journalism School computer lab with access to the ENPS system, just connect to Factiva) (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates). Once connected, in the “Free Text” box at the top, type: nyc daybook exactly as […]
AP Daybook Access Demo
Would you like to see an online demonstration of how to access the AP Daybook from Factiva? Your colleague, Joseph Lin, MS 2009, has put together a wonderful step-by-step screencast! Click on Joseph’s screencast to view. […]