Spring 2005

CLASS OF 1984

Myra Alperson continues to publish NoshNews, a newsletter chronicling the markets and eateries in NYC’s ethnic neighborhoods, and to lead NoshWalks, walking tours of those neighborhoods. Her book, “Nosh New York: The Food Lover’s Guide to New York City’s Most Delicious Neighborhoods,” was published in 2003 by St. Martin’s Press.

CLASS OF 1987

Christopher Bellitto earned his doctorate in history and is now a professor at Kean University with an expertise in church history. He is also a book editor and has published on the papacy. Over the past few weeks, Bellitto has spent much time giving radio, print and tv interviews about the transition to a new pope.

CLASS OF 1990

Robyn Greene Arrington is the producer/director/writer of “Full Plate,” a lifestyle program for TV One, a new African-American network. At the same station, she plans to create a home remodeling show and is also developing her own political series. After NYU, Greene Arrington attended Newhouse and received a degree in TV-radio-film production in 1991. She is married to a former NYU employee, Eric Arrington. Other accomplishments include working on Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X,” writing/producing and freelancing for HBO’s promotional department, freelancing as a writer-producer at Lifetime Television, producing the Miramax-distributed “Hav Plenty,” and being senior writer/producer/editor at BET in the promotions department.

CLASS OF 1994

Rich Calder has been a staff reporter at the New York Post since June. He previously worked at The Journal News in Westchester, NY for four years.

Noel Holton Brathwaite is pursuing a PhD in rhetoric and composition at Iowa State University. She teaches writing to college freshman. Holton Brathwaite and her husband both have a year-and-a-half left in their programs. Prior to returning to school, she worked for five years as newspaper reporter, covering medicine and health care. After graduation, the couple plans to return to the east coast to be near to family.

CLASS OF 1995

KaJuana Matthews works for CNN Entertainment in Los Angeles. She writes, produces and reports on the world of entertainment for CNN, where she has worked since November 2004.

CLASS OF 1996

Allen Salkin is writing a book called, “Festivus: The Holiday For the Rest of Us.” Warner Books will release it in fall 2005. The book is based on his New York Times article on the holiday popularized on “Seinfeld” and now celebrated in the “real” world. Salkin has recently published in The Village Voice (on a controversial golf course project in The Bronx), Plenty (on a solar car he built), Cargo (on the science of retail design) and Heeb (on Jewish guilt).

CLASS OF 1997

Timothy Gardner is an environment and energy correspondent for Reuters in New York.

Marianne Nardone is a senior reporter with Institutional Investor’s newsletter division in Manhattan, covering real estate. She lives in Hoboken, N.J.

CLASS OF 1998

Jonathan Jaffe is founder and president of Jaffe Communications, Inc. of Westfield, N.J. The public affairs firm, now in its third year, works with government and business to promote “smart growth” development projects in urban areas. Jaffe was formerly a staff writer at The Star-Ledger of Newark for 10 years.

CLASS OF 1999

Yu-Tzu Chiu has been a staff reporter for the Taipei Times since 1999. Chiu’s work has also appeared in IEEE Spectrum, Nature Medicine, Reuters Health, Environmental Science & Technology of the American Chemical Society and Asian Water. In February, 2005, she won the Asia Pacific Fellowship of the International Journalists Program (IJP), an independent organization in Germany. In 2001, she was awarded Taiwan’s National Press Council’s Outstanding Journalists Award, marking the first time in the 11-year history of the award that a reporter from an English-language newspaper won. Her research was published by the council in 2002.

David Dutkanicz was recently appointed music editor at Dover Publications in New York City. He has two books planned for fall 2005: “Great Adagios for Solo Piano” and “My First Mozart.” Prior to this, he was associate editor at International Music Company and the recipient of six Paul Revere Awards for music publishing.

Erica Laden is a news talent coordinator for MTV News.

CLASS OF 2000

Matt Brown lives in Los Angeles, where he is a sports research analyst for STATS, Inc. Brown comes up with the unusual statistics that clients, including FOX, CBS, and the YES Network, use in their broadcasts. Within the past year, his work has appeared on the telecasts of the Super Bowl, World Series and NCAA basketball tournament. Brown contributed 24 Boston Red Sox essays to a book called “The 2005 Scouting Notebook,” co-published by STATS and The Sporting News.

Mina Feig traded in her keyboard for crayons. Currently, she is a stay-at-home mom, residing in Montclair, N.J. with her 18-month old son and her husband. Previously, Feig was a fashion writer for Newport News, Inc. in NYC and had written for several interior design/architecture publications.

Adam Kraemer was promoted to assistant production manager after four-and-a-half years as a copy editor for Energy Intelligence Group, Inc. The publication also created the position of copy supervisor for Kraemer, who is still a senior editor for IntrepidMedia.com, where he writes a monthly column. Kraemer currently lives in Astoria, N.Y, and recently joined the band Coppersonic as piano player.

CLASS OF 2001

Nadia Abji is as a freelance producer/director for the MTV News and Documentaries department. She received a Peabody for her work as an associate producer/segment producer on MTV’s “Fight For Your Rights Campaign” on sexual health in 2003.

Matthew Creamer is a reporter for Advertising Age magazine.

Brook Silva-Braga spent the last year traveling the world, producing an independent documentary on backpacking and world travel. Shooting will be complete by the end of this year and Silva-Braga hopes to have it air sometime in 2006.

Janine Zeitlin is the projects and investigative reporter for the Naples Daily News. In 2004, she won second place in the Society of Environmental Journalists Contest for Outstanding In-depth Print Reporting for her series entitled, “Deep Trouble: The Gulf in Peril,” on pollution in the Gulf of Mexico. The series beat the Washington Post.

CLASS OF 2002

Jessica DeCostole is an editorial assistant/assistant to the editor-in-chief at Redbook Magazine.

Courtney Dentch was the 2004 Suburban Journalist of the Year. She is currently the assistant managing editor of the TimesLedger in Queens, where she has worked for the last three years.

Melissa Maguire is the associate producer of the 8 p.m. live nightly newscast at NY1.

Wendy Manwarren is an editorial assistant at In Style.

Matt Sedensky is a reporter at the Kansas City bureau of the Associated Press.

Jess Wisloski is an investigative reporter at The Brooklyn Papers. She also does legwork for the New York Times and copyediting for the Village Voice.

CLASS OF 2003

Christine Byrnes is an associate editor at Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. in New York City.

Erin Clements is an editorial assistant at Time Out New York, writing for various sections of the magazine.

Ling Hsu spent her first year after graduation at Newsday. She worked for seven months on the night copy desk and then rotated into the features department. After that, the Tribune company sent Hsu to the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia. In the seven months she has been there, Hsu has done everything from copy editing, slotting, to designing the celebrity page, inside news pages and the local cover.

Hillary Kerr just resigned as an associate features editor at ELLE and plans to purse a free-lance writing career, based in California

Regine Labossiere is a reporter for the Hartford Courant.

Carola Mandelbaum, lives in Washington D.C, where she works for Creative Associates International, an international education and civil society consulting firm. She freelances work for several DC publications, including Foreign Policy Magazine.

Evita Nancy Torre is an editorial assistant and junior copy editor at Ladies’ Home Journal. In 2004, she was an NBC News Associate finalist in the annual editorial competition.

CLASS OF 2004

Brian Foster is the lead reporter at NewsChannel 34 (WIVT-TV, ABC affiliate) in Binghamton NY. On weekends, he is a reporter and photographer at sister station, NewsChannel 9 (WIXT-TV, ABC affiliate) in Syracuse, NY.

Ben Goldberg is attending law school in Cleveland, Ohio at Case Western Reserve University. This summer, he will be a legal intern at a large real estate company - Forest City Enterprises.

Yoav Gonen is a general assignment reporter for the Staten Island Advance.

Julie Leupold lives in Los Angeles, where she works for the California Real Estate Journal as managing editor. She determines all editorial content for the weekly paper and edits, writes and reports. Leupold is the face of the company at industry events.

Valerie Nahmad is freelancing full-time, specializing in health, fitness, fashion and women’s lifestyle issues and writing for The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, Allure and Modern Bride, among others.