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July 20, 2009
Be the Journalist: Atlantic Yards Update
The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill]
by Sarah Maslin Nir
The newspaper that paid people this week to write articles about corsets for men and the trend in eyebrow-shaving is looking for a "citizen journalist" willing to cover an Atlantic Yards meeting this Wednesday for free.
Interested in the Atlantic Yards project? Then this assignment is for you.
We need a citizen journalist to head to a tri-community board informational meeting on the development of Atlantic Yards. CBs 2 (that’s us), 6 and 8 are joining forces on Wednesday, July 22, to have a good long chat (it’s scheduled to go from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.) about what’s going on with the Yards.
We’d love you to go and send us some meeting minutes, new information and all the news that’s fit to blog from that meeting. Deadline: as early as possible Thursday morning. Please send us an e-mail if you’d like to be our citizen journalist for this meeting.
NoLandGrab: We suppose we could be upset that The Times, to which we pay several hundred dollars a year for home delivery, can't be bothered to assign a salaried reporter to this important story, especially since Forest City Ratner, the developer of the paper's headquarters building, is at the center of it. But we choose to look on the bright side — at least there's a chance the coverage might be objective!
Posted by eric at July 20, 2009 8:53 PM