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I started writing seven years ago for a humor / satire magazine called Venue. Since then, my writing portfolio has included clips of environmental reporting, news features, arts and entertainment reviews and online multimedia documentaries. To contact me for writing assignments, e-mail: jeffreyhillwebsite@gmail.com

NEWS ARTICLES-

MAY 21, 2007 - PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"SERVICE LEARNING" (click to read)
by Jeffrey Hill

"Last month Anne Shenberger, president and CEO of Philadelphia Safe and Sound, a nonprofit formed to improve the health, safety and well- being of children and youth, was voted by Philly.com’s suburban site Phillyburbs.com “woman of the week.” Noted for creating the citywide Children’s Report Card and Community Report Cards, Shenberger was proud her organization provided a service that had been widely used by the city’s social services agencies for the previous eight years to help fight child poverty" ...
READ MORE AT PHILADELPHIAWEEKLY.COM

MAY 7, 2007 - PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"POSITIVE THINKING" (click to read)
by Jeffrey Hill

Recession may be the buzzword of the moment for the national business media, but according to those working directly with Philadelphia’s industries, the city’s broad economy has crucial highlights and bloopers that are missing from the reels. According to an April report from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, indexes for the city’s general activities, shipments, new orders and employment are in the red. This set off a string of ill-researched comparisons and premature funeral marches for Philly’s industrial markets ...
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MAY 5, 2007 - SPACING MAGAZINE
"REVIEW: THE DAILY BLOG OF NEXT AMERICAN CITY" (click to read)

The writers and editors at The Next American City could be right; we
might look back at this time and see it as the period when American
cities changed for the better. The best thing is, with this blog,
we get a front-row seat ...
READ MORE AT SPACING.CA

APRIL 30, 2007 - PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT" (click to read)
by Jeffrey Hill

“It really stuns me that I haven’t been approached by any representative of the University of Pennsylvania in any capacity,” says Mark Monaghan, owner of the Intermezzo Cafe on 30th and Walnut streets. Monaghan’s coffee shop sits in the center of a targeted landscape—unsightly surface parking lots and rotting infrastructure are to be transformed into vibrant green parks and accessible walkways right in his front yard. And while he’s excited about the potential shot in the arm his business may receive from the neighborhood facelift, he’s apprehensive about a project he knows nothing about ...
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