Ha Ta

huntnewsnu.com — Daniel and Ashley Liss arrived early at the Boston Synagogue for a Friday evening service on Nov. 30. As they approached the main entrance, a sign read, "Doors will be kept locked at all times, press buzzer for entry." After the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh that left 11 people dead on...

Mission Hill Gazette — By Ha Ta Special to the Gazette At the Tobin K-8 School on Mission Hill, children ask their lunch monitor Maria Rodriguez for advice on healthy eating, leading to what is known affectionately as the "Maria Effect." Rodriguez, 48, was recently awarded Boston's 2018 Henry L.

foreignobserver.net — By Ha Ta and Suhra Nahib To professors familiar with Yan Wu, an international journalism student whose work appeared in a Pulitzer Prize finalist piece, she was to become an extraordinary digital journalist. Whether Wu can stay in the U.S. to work, however, depends on the result of a visa lottery in April.

taminhha.home.blog — By Ha Ta Crime, drugs and immigration are not the biggest fears faced by those living on both sides of the U.S. - Mexico border, according to Ieva Jusionyte; for them, a permeable barrier is much safer than a concrete wall. "Today marks an important anniversary: Twenty-nine years ago the Berlin Wall fell, but it...

taminhha.home.blog — By Ha Ta and Nancy Ping Prior to the 2016 presidential election, politicians and activists advocated the importance of voting, but it didn't motivate young people to turn out in larger numbers than previous elections. According to a Brookings Report, only 50 percent of the young adult electorate voted in the 2016 general election, compared...

storybench.org — "Do we need to live in a democracy?" asked Susan Labandibar, the regional coordinating organizer of Swing Left, at Pizza, Press & Politics, a speaker series hosted by the School of Journalism at Northeastern University, on Oct. 11. Her answer is most definite: Yes.

storybench.org — Jennifer Smith, news editor for the Dorchester Reporter, says community newspapers act as a local voice, raising issues that may not be covered by larger media and can create stronger engagement with their audience because they are closer to their readers.