Wielding bullhorns, carrying picket signs and chanting slogans, more than 100
Teamsters union members converged on the Long Island City headquarters of gourmet grocery deliver FreshDirect to demand better wages and protest the termination of two union sympathizers.

A glimpse into any newsroom in the 1950s and 60’s would yield a similar sight: a curved table surrounded by a group of smoking, spitting, and drinking men.

But this was about to change in the late 60’s, at the “copydesk” of the New York Times when New York’s largest and most prestigious paper hired Betsy Wade, the first woman to work among its male editing corps.

Sunshine broke through the cloudy barriers and pervaded the open dirt trail along the lower end of Southpoint Park on Roosevelt Island as Jeremy Boyette crouched down on the grassy acreage and unpacked his camera to take pictures of Manhattan just across the East River.

By Beethoven Bong

Francis Fredrick is telling the story of the night, and the bullet, that changed his life. “I was visiting my girlfriend, Maria, in south Philly,” he says. “I was in the car, driving late at night, and somebody started shooting.” Fredrick says he never saw the shooter. The bullet penetrated his spine, leaving his legs and much of his arms lifeless. “I was thinking, ‘Why was God punishing me? What did I do to deserve this?’ ” Frederick speaks softly. There were no witnesses, no arrests. His gaze is fixed at the pavement. His waist is belted to the seat of a motorized wheelchair.

Aspiring journalists have to work harder to keep up with technology, especially in the age of the World Wide Web.

That was what Ben Mevorach, News Director of 1010 WINS News Radio and three-time winner of the National Edward R. Murrow Award, indicated last Friday at the Sixth Annual City University of New York (CUNY) Undergraduate Journalism, Broadcast and New Media Conference and Career Fair.