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PHOTO: Duy Linh Tu
Here we are in all our post-production glamour.

From left to right: Saheli S. R. Datta, Lane Johnson, Yetnayet Aberra (seated), Erica Gonzalez, Jennifer Esty (seated), Alexandra Huddleston, Amy Wu (seated)

Missing: Pat Winters Lauro

One day. 24 hours. Seven stories.

For this special report, NYC24 took to the streets in the city that never sleeps. We thought it only fair that if the Big Apple can stay awake every day around the clock, for 24 hours so could we.

These stories represent snapshots of events and places, some unique to the day and some unique to New York. We go in da club, off to the street fair, into the subway and watch spring blossom in Central Park.

And while our intrepid, red-eyed reporters worked hard to capture the goings-on of April 18th, NYC 24’s very own Lane Johnson performed the Herculean feat of the 24-hour photo-essay.

So check it out and feel free to send us . We prefer compliments but take criticism in stride.

-Jennifer Esty

Special Report Masthead
  Executive Editor Jennifer Esty  
  Managing/Multimedia Editor Lane Johnson    
  Production Editor Saheli S. R. Datta  
  Design Editors Erica Gonzalez, Alexandra Huddleston  
  Copy/Quality Assurance Editors Yetnayet Aberra, Pat Winters Lauro, Amy Wu  
  Faulty Advisors Sreenath Sreenivasan, Duy Linh Tu  

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Our Staff:

Yetnayet Aberra Yetnayet Aberra (Ethiopia) joined the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in August 2003. She worked in Ethiopia for 11 years and is fascinated by the infinite possiblities and the dynamics of new media - bringing together vision, sound and writing.
Saheli S. Rupa Datta Saheli S. R. Datta (Denver, Colorado) Saheli majored in physics but decided to be a writer after all. An insomniac blogger, she held the New Media fort down till dawn several times this spring. She was perhaps a little overenthusiastic about injecting some much needed color into our vision of Gotham.
Jennifer Esty Jennifer Esty (Cornish, NH)
Jennifer fell (gracefully) into new media during the heady days of the dotcom boom and never looked back. Before Columbia she worked for Microsoft Ltd UK. She divides her heart and her time between the US and the UK.		 Erica Gonzalez Erica Gonzalez (Brooklyn, New York)
This Brookynite is at two places at once -- work and school. She's been on everyone's case about giving the site more real New York attitude. We're lucky it's not Brooklyn24.org.
Alexandra Huddleston Alexandra Huddleston (Freetown, Sierra Leone) A journalist and photographer, Alexandra is fascinated by the convergence of media available through the web and sees in new media the power to revolutionize journalism. She also takes sneaky photos when you least expect it. Lane Johnson Lane Johnson (Truckee, California)
With his roots in the ostensibly more laidback West coast, Lane brings to the new media world some West Coast chill and a head full of technical nerdery—not to mention his photography.
Pat Winters Lauro
 Pat Winters Lauro (Suffern, New York) Pat is a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economic Journalism. Prior to Columbia, she was a freelance writer. She was an adjunct professor of journalism at Rutgers. Pat thinks new media is the wave of the future and wants to learn all about it to stay topical. Amy Wu Amy Wu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Amy specializes in writing business stories that are quirky and offbeat, perfect practice for NYC24. Before diving headfirst into the world of new media, she worked as a reporter in Hong Kong, Beijing and Monterey, CA.