The Local
Gersh Kuntzman to leave Fort Greene Local for 'Daily News'
"We wish him well in his latest venture," reads an unbylined post on The Local, which broke the news yesterday. More
'Times' will end partnerships with N.Y.U., CUNY on hyperlocal blogs
The Times has decided to terminate its collaborations with the journalism schools of New York University and the City University of New York on two websites covering the East Village and Lower East Side, and the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. More
(3)Hey honeys! 'King of Brooklyn' Gersh Kuntzman heads off to academe, to instruct young gumshoes
“The idea of a ‘Hey honey’ story was ingrained in me very early at the New York Post,” said Kuntzman, who was now chowing down on a medium rare cheeseburger with a side of shoe-string fries.
“That’s something I don’t think people today at journalism schools are ingrained with,” he said. “The notion that on some level, something on the page has to be something that could make a husband say, ‘Hey honey, look at this story!” More
