Author: jgrebes

This was written for my environmental reporting class in late February. I’m currently looking for a place to publish it. In the past four decades, 40 percent of the world’s coral reefs have been lost, largely due to global climate change and other manmade issues. This epidemic has scientists scrambling for ways to halt or…

My Narrative Journalism Class wrote a series of longform profiles of the various plaintiffs, experts and lawyers involved in a toxic tort case in the Bronx that took 22 years to settle. The full website with all the stories can be found here.  My article focused on the plaintiffs’ expert witnesses – their experiences and…

On DUMBO’s Washington Street there is a recently-planted tree. In a planter surrounded by flowers, it makes the street a little brighter while remaining unassuming. It’s a fitting memorial for the kindhearted, no-nonsense and modest man who worked to better the neighborhood for over two decades. Bill Vitiello spent more than half of his working…