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August 9, 2007
Brooklyn Paper is ‘Newspaper of the Year’
Suburban Newspapers of America bestowed its top honors to The Brooklyn Paper, citing the weekly paper's "aggressive, readable coverage of" Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project:
The Brooklyn Paper is a Suburban Newspapers of America “Newspaper of the Year,” the group announced on Monday.
Finding that “The Brooklyn Paper was strongly and brightly written throughout,” SNA’s judges heaped special praise on the newspaper for its reporting on the Atlantic Yards mega-development.
“The Brooklyn Paper’s aggressive, readable coverage of local developer Bruce Ratner stood out,” they wrote.
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Publisher Ed Weintrob said he was particularly pleased that the judges singled out The Paper’s Atlantic Yards coverage for praise.“This story — the biggest Brooklyn story in our lifetimes — is one we’ve stayed with over four years, despite strong commercial pressures to do otherwise, and despite appearing out on a limb, given the determination of other New York newspapers to either ignore it or misreport it.”
NoLandGrab: If not for Publisher Ed Weintraub, Editor Gersh Kuntzman, the paper's staff reporters and their fearless coverage of Atlantic Yards, all of the developing news on Atlantic Yards would pretty much be limited to the Internet. Congrats to Brooklyn Paper — and thanks.
Posted by lumi at August 9, 2007 9:08 AM