I wrote an in-depth story on a local housing crisis that will likely get worse as more soldiers come back from Iraq.

I now work in upstate New York, at the Watertown Daily Times,  covering Fort Drum and the 10th Mountain Division.  You can see my latest stories here.

Here is one- featured above- that I wrote about the Secretary of the Army visiting Fort Drum.

Nicole Ross- Fencer from Daniel Woolfolk on Vimeo.

June 4, 2010- Becoming Columbia University Student Athlete of the Month is quite an honor. It is also a feat Nicole Ross, a fencer and Upper West Side native, has earned twice in 2010.

In March, she became the National Collegiate Athletic Association fencing champion in the foil, her competition weapon. Last year, at the 2009 Junior World Fencing Championships in Belfast, Ross helped the United States team’s first world win in her event, women’s foil fencing. “It was super exciting and gratifying for me,” said Ross, who will be fencing at the New York World Cup of Fencing June 18-20.

Ross graduated from Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School on West 93rd Street.

Chasen Marshall and me. The cord is for being a veteran. Photo by Joel Meares.

This week, I graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.  I have a few career options I am weighing and will update soon, hopefully.

Click the play button to see what happens when you ride on the wrong side of the road.

Professor Herman of The Wall Street Journal showing our class ground zero through the building he was in.

On Monday, my business and economics reporting class went off and toured Wall Street.  We even got onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and saw the gold at the fed.  This was among the highlights of my school year.

Yes, Aries usually does wear shades. (iPhone photo shot with Shake It Photo application.)

Today, I turned in my Master’s Project, which is Columbia Journalism School’s version of a thesis: a 5,000 word magazine piece. Mine was on Aries, a service dog that helps his owner deal with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Because I’ve been doing so much writing at school, I haven’t shot photos for this or other stories. I’ll probably shoot towards the end of the semester, but, for right now, I’m focusing on getting the most of my writing instruction at Columbia.  Graduation is in May.

From journalism.columbia.edu

I’ll be in Tucson with the New York Times Institute the first two weeks of January.  Here’s the story my school ran.

In one day, Panaderia Caotzingo bakery produces 270 pieces of pan de muerto, Spanish for "bread of the dead."

Nushin Rashidian and I recently spent an evening at a Mexican bakery in Queens preparing for The Day of the Dead. Check out our story at nyfoodchain.com.

Aztec Press Oct. 29, 2009. Main photo by Daniel Woolfolk

In late 2008, while tagging along with Deanna Dent in Mexico, I took some photos at Casa de Elizabeth Orphanage. The Aztec Press recently wrote a story about it. You can read the article by Jose Rodriguez here.