Occasional Updates About the Comings and Goings of Former Writers for the WORD

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Luis M. Mostacero, a former WORD writer, is a professional journalist for Noticia Hispanoamericana, which is based in Long Island. He also is a student writing for the Hunts Point Express. He sent this link April 9: Activists want odor complaints

Mostacero can be reached at lmmosta@yahoo.com.



Itay Hod, one of the founding members of the WORD, sent this link March 2: He’s on the Daily Show talking about the Youth Vote (AKA Youth Quake).

Itay Hod can be reached at itay71@aim.com.


Rosamaria Mancini works overseas for the Wall Street Journal. She’s been overseas about a year. Below is a link to her latest story (This story is being published February 27 and is good only for seven days).

She was a stringer for the New York Times, worked for Long Island Business News and did a stint with a Fairchild Publication before heading overseas.

Click here for WSJ article.


Emily Ruiz, who graduated from Hunter this past January, is in Washington D.C. this semester via a paid journalism internship funded by the Scripps Howard Foundation. Her front-page article on Latinos and the Texas primary can be read at Hispanic Link, a national news agency that syndicates opinion, analysis and feature columns to newspapers and magazines throughout the Americas. Date of notification was February 12.

Ruiz can be reached at e.cruiz@hotmail.com.

Former WORD writer Charlotte Cusumano, presently managing editor of the Hunter student newspaper The Envoy, has a paid internship with TimeOut New York. Click here to see what she’s been up to at TimeOut. Date of notification was February 13.

Cusumano can be reached at ccusumano@si.rr.com.

Itay Hod, one of the founding members of the WORD, sends notice of one of his latest assignments: Itay’s Fashion Week Exclusive… Werk! Date of notification was February 12.

Itay Hod can be reached at itay71@aim.com.