Although a bit out of practice, I made my best effort at translating an interview with two Argentine colleagues on Laura Flanders' show, GRIT TV. Claudia Acuña and Sergio Ciancaglini, of the Buenos Aires-based LaVaca Journalism Collective, also spoke at a big forum at Cooper Union on 5/15 called FIRE THE BOSS: The Worker Control Solution from Buenos Aires to Chicago, with Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis, Armando Robles, Leah Fried and Brendan Martin.
Ever since I found out the Gowanus Canal area in Brooklyn is a candidate for EPA Superfund designation, I've been a little obsessed. Here are some selects from what I hope will be a work in progress, to document this eery, polluted, crumbling but somehow incredibly beautiful place. Preview below, full size slide show here.
Happy days! I just found out I'm one of the finalists for the 2008 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, "the nation’s largest all-media, general reporting prizes for professionals under the age of 35." Even cooler is that this was for a story published in our scrappy NYC hometown alt-paper, The Indypendent, alongside other finalists from CNN, NPR, The New York Times, Washington Post etc. The same story won a 2008 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for "a local view of a national crisis."
About JHH
JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON is a writer and producer with a background in documentary film, book publishing and political campaigns.
