Tag: Walyce Almeida
-
Web Development Skills Comes with Voracity
Voracious, bulldog, hungry – those were words my editor Joseph B. Treaster at the Knight Center for International Media said needed to describe me if I truly wanted to be a journalist. He reported for over 30 years at the New York Times, which makes those adjectives perfect to describe his professional style. I learned…
-
Hoping in the DREAM Act – More than a Thesis or Chore
The movement behind the DREAM Act gives many young people hope that one day they will have a chance to come out of the shadows. They hope to contribute to American society as well as receive the full freedom that comes with being a citizen. Because my parents are immigrants themselves and so many of…
-
Going In-Depth on Business’ Need for Fish
Blue crabs, fish, and some other sea creatures creep me out a little bit. It’s something about their cold, slimy, expressionlessness that makes no distinction between them being dead or alive… until one moves. For one undergraduate project called The Fish at Bay, classmate Brian Schlansky and I got to join a family that owns a…
-
Front of the Business Section
As part of an internship at The Miami Herald, my beat for an entire year was to cover a small town south of Homestead called Florida City. Every other week, I would go to the city council meetings to find issues worth reporting. And in between, I wrote features. Because it was a small town,…
-
Looking into Kashmir Reflections
Kashmir, for those who don’t know, is a region disputed by India, Pakistan, and China. It’s diverse in culture, religion, and so on. But I knew absolutely nothing about this area until in grad school I worked on a project about Kashmir. Two of my classmates, Ami Vitale (National Geographic photographer) and Nick Maslow (freelance…