Construction Deaths On The Rise

New York, NY (US) -- Dec.7, 2006 -- Construction worker fatalities in New York City have more than doubled since 2005, amid the city’s biggest building boom in recent history.

Written & Produced by: Andrea De Marco and Lisa Desai
Camera-work by: Andrea De Marco

** Winner of the Richard J. Blood Award for Excellence in Reporting - Columbia University, May 2007


COLUMBIA TELEVISION NEWS
5 min 52 sec - Dec 7, 2006

UN Under Pressure For High Seas Fishing Ban

New York, NY (US) -- Nov.17, 2006 -- A handful of Greenpeace protestors gathered in front of the UN today to express their support for a temporary ban on high seas bottom trawling, a practice, they say, is destroying ocean wildlife.

Written by: Yasmeen Qureshi
Produced by: Andrea De Marco
Camera-work by: Andrea De Marco


COLUMBIA TELEVISION NEWS
2 min 12 sec - Nov 17, 2006

Rockefeller Drug Laws Convict Stands A Chance For Retrial

NEW YORK, NY (US) -- Nov.2, 2006 -- A New York appeals court has ruled that a Harlem bodega worker who pleaded guilty in 2001 of crack cocaine possession can argue for a new trial.

Written & Produced by: Andrea De Marco and Kate McCarthy
Camera-work by: Andrea De Marco


COLUMBIA TELEVISION NEWS
3 min 7 sec - Nov 2, 2006

Brooklyn Canoers Keep Fighting To Clean The Gowanus Canal

New York, NY (US) -- Oct.18, 2006 -- The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe club is a non-profit organization which is trying to gain public attention to improve the conditions of the once heavily polluted Gowanus Canal in South Brooklyn.

Written &Produced by: Andrea De Marco
Camera-work by: Andrea De Marco


COLUMBIA TELEVISION NEWS
3 min 46 sec - Oct 18, 2006