Fran Reilly
City Limits' fall 2024 youth reporting interns at a recent field trip to the New York Times' midtown newsroom.
This fall, City Limits worked with more than two dozen reporting interns from high schools across New York City, who learned the ins and outs of public service journalism. Their stories, examining different aspects of the city’s housing crisis, will be published in the coming weeks.
Councilmember Joseph answered questions from CLARIFY student reporters about her priorities for the school system, DOE leadership, addressing the homelessness crisis facing over 100,000 students, school lunches, cell phone bans, and more.
New York City officials secured agreements from Uber and Lyft to “drastically reduce access restrictions” for drivers. But the New York Taxi Workers Alliance called the deal “a corporate give-away” that doesn’t do enough to improve workers’ conditions.
CLARIFY (The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth) is working with more than two dozen talented high school students from across New York City, who are reporting on issues impacting their communities.
The city’s Dining Out NYC program creates new rules restaurants must follow when offering sidewalk or roadway seating, which go into effect Aug. 3. CLARIFY News’ student reporters spoke to restaurant owners and employees near Midtown about their outdoor dining setups.
Since 2014, City Limits has run a paid internship program to train New York City high school students in public service journalism. Read more about our latest CLARIFY News reporters, who are investigating Mayor Eric Adams’ progress on housing and homelessness halfway through his term.
Workers, especially people of color and immigrants, are suffering in increasingly hot weather. But some advocates and lawmakers have solutions.
“People are bringing it up, people are talking about it and thinking about what can be done, but I don’t know that that has translated very well into action yet,” said Victoria Sanders, research analyst at the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance. “We really want to see actions starting to play out.”
Extreme heat from climate change has the potential to exacerbate racial disparities in the five boroughs’ maternal health outcomes. Still, climate change and maternal health often remain two separate policy conversations, both locally and nationally.
The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth (CLARIFY), in partnership with NYC’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP), is working with two dozen talented high school and early college students from across the five boroughs.
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