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Emerging new technologies are constantly revolutionizing how media function. Recently, the new phenomenon that has materialized from things like wikis and blogs is accessible hyper-local journalism.
Prof. Mo Krochmal’s Online Journalism 80 class at Hofstra University has worked all semester on improving our reporting, writing and multimedia skills. As our final project, we’ve produced an entire issue of “Nassau News,” the School of Communication’s online local news coverage website.
Our stories, which focus on the Hempstead community, investigate what it means to be a resident of Hempstead, contrasted with next-door Garden City, through text, images, video and sound.
Whether you’ve spent your whole life in Hempstead or if you’ve just spent the last year here as a student at Hofstra, you’ll find something in our work that will inform you.
From focusing on veterans of war searching for employment to booming small businesses, our stories look at everything in between.
Living in Hempstead is a completely different experience than living in Garden City. With stories that compare high school athletics, music education programs and crime statistics, our “Nassau News” coverage explores the difference.
Our reporting shows that although Hempstead isn’t what it used to be, as a shopping hotspot, it’s working to become a city as well as improving its infrastructure on Fulton Ave. and at Nassau Coliseum.
However, as we’ve discovered, Hempstead is not without its problems. The village has recently been working on pollution clean-up at multiple sites as well as erasing poverty through non-profit organizations and shelters for the homeless.
Another improvement might be the town-gown relationship between Hofstra and Hempstead, whether it’s the relationship between locals and students looking for housing or the school’s administration and local government officials.
One thing that was found to be an integral aspect of Hempstead was its distinct Latin flavor. We’ve worked to uncover the best eats at a local Salvadoran restaurant as well as talking to Latinos about their issues and concerns about living in Hempstead.
Overall, our reporting works to define what it means to beliving in one of the last urban settings on Long Island, the birthplace of suburbia.
To understand exactly what it means to be a resident of Hempstead, visit NassauNews.org. To contribute to these subjects, visit our wiki for this project.
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