The
Red Hook StarªRevue
APRIL 2015
SOUTH BROOKLYN’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
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Star-Revue wins two awards in state-wide newspaper competition
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or one weekend a year the 177 members of the New York State Press Association (NYPA) get together in Saratoga Springs to hone their craft and compete in its Better Newspaper Contest. NYPA is like a chamber of commerce for the newspaper industry. They provide editorial and sales services, Publisher Kimberly G. Price as well as lobbying and continuing education. holding the first place award given to us by the They provide scholarPress Association.
ships for journalism students, as well as a fund to pay summer interns in newspaper positions throughout the state.
ner, which take place in the huge dining hall at the Gideon Putnam Hotel, where many of the attendees stayed.
The convention features two full days of seminars covering all aspects of the community newspaper. These include editorial, advertising, design, the internet and social media, and special event planning.
The featured speaker at the Saturday luncheon was Ted Jackson, staff photographer of the New Orleans Times Picayune, who held the audience of newsroom professionals spellbound with his gripping stories about their Katrina coverage.
The awards, covering all these areas, are given during lunch and din-
The three local women who perished in the Triangle Fire by Mary Ann Pietanza
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n March 25, 1911, perched between the scholarly and tony worlds of New York University and the “Ladies Mile,” along Broadway’s impressive mansions, the most chilling and gruesome fire of its kind broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. It was a fire with such sickening proportion, not even the skilled firefighters of the New York City Fire Dept. had been trained for or prepared to witness. A fire whose victims were so torched and mutilatyear old Laura ed, that the emotionally overwhelmed crews 17 Brunnetio lived at needed to switch shifts every hour. 160 Columbia Street Confronted with the reality of a locked stairway door and a nonoperating elevator, young female sewing operators desperately clawed their way into only two possible means of escape, an elevator that was designed to hold ten people at a time, and an outdoor fire escape that was narrowly passable from a door that opened in instead of out, which in their panic, the women, clamoring to flee the blaze behind them, were inadvertently pushing against. Both proved futile. Both were fatal.
MESSAGE FROM MENCHACA
FIRST PLACE The Red Hook Star-Revue, Brooklyn Micah B. Rubin “The photos here told great stories. Wonderful closeups of both machines and people doing the very kind of work that is the fabric of America. A great piece and set of pictures for Labor Day. Capturing the grit of these workers combined with the crisp, close-up photos made this the clear-cut choice.”
Best Column HONORABLE MENTION The Red Hook StarRevue, Brooklyn Mark Shames “I was impressed to learn that this columnist does not have a journalism background. His writing style and ability to discuss politics at a lay level without dummying down the subject matter is impressive.”
Working Red Hook was the title of the award winning Labor Day photo feature by Micah B.
Rubin. The stunning photos can be seen online at http://www.star-revue.com/red-hookwork-micah-b-rubin/
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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
The Star-Revue, founded in 2010, joined NYPA in 2012. We have won awards in each of the prior two years - this is the first time that our photographs have been recognized. We honor the hard work of our contributers Micah B. Rubin and Mark Shames.
Best Picture Story
Plus our annual April Fools Spoof Section - pages 9-12 The
Blue Pencil Lunar Revue
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