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Barrett’s journalism class follows a Newfield tradition.

Published By: The Village Voice
Link: Village Voice Article Source Link
Photo By: Giulietta Verdon-Roe
Written By: Wayne Barrett and the Hunter College Journlism Class

The 10 Worst Landlords
craped from the bottom of the barrel, tales of living hell
Tuesday, June 27th 2006

The 10 Worst Landlords is a Voice institution. Started by longtime senior editor Jack Newfield in the ’60s, it became a regular feature gracing our pages through the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. This edition is dedicated to Newfield, who died in 2004. It was written by students from his alma mater, Hunter College. Senior editor Wayne Barrett, who this winter was the first Jack Newfield Visiting Professor of Journalism at Hunter, supervised the project.

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The Brian Lehrer Show

Newfield’s long time colleague and investigative reporter Wayne Barrett along with two students at Hunter College Charlene Joseph and Adam Huten premiere on a WNYC New York Public Radio Show, called the Brian Lehrer Show discussing their class project bringing back Jack Newfields tradition of “The Ten Worst Landlords List” in the New York Village Voice as a tribute to Jack Newfield, who originated the series in the 1960’s.