I am an award-winning Italian reporter based in New York. I write and produce multimedia content about the New York job market, the green economy, social trends, immigrant communities and Islam in the United States for both American and Italian dailies and magazines. My publishing credits include The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The New York Daily News, the leading Italian economic paper Il Sole-24Ore and its monthly magazine IL. I moved to New York in August 2008 with a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a master of arts in multimedia journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. I graduated in December 2009. Previously I’ve done urban reporting in Milan and freelanced for Italian publications from Eastern Europe and Northern India. My awards include the Indro Montanelli Journalism Prize for a series of articles on Milan (2007), and a New York Foreign Press Association scholarship (2009) for his dedication to international journalism. I also hold a master’s in English and linguistics from Cambridge University. I speak fluent Spanish, as well as English and Italian.

Contact me: 001.347.306.8922, damianobeltrami AT gmail DOT com.

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THE HUFFINGTON POST, published June 22, 2010
In the film Tiny Furniture a 22-year-old girl called Aura returns home to her artist mother in a TriBeCa loft with a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her YouTube page, and her tail between her legs.
Throwing away her clogs, she dives into a new life very similar [...]

IL SOLE-24ORE, pubblicato il 19 maggio 2010
Dennis Crowley, amministratore delegato del social network più corteggiato del momento, ricorda perfettamente quando ha avuto l’idea da 125 milioni di dollari. Dopo il jogging lungo il fiume Hudson con un dispositivo che registra tragitto e velocità della corsa, ha scaricato i dati sul computer e confrontato la performance [...]

Il SOLE-24ORE, pubblicato il 21 aprile 2010
Un documentarista freelance di Brooklyn è tornato dall’India a febbraio con venti ore di interviste filmate. Disperato, ha confidato a un amico che servono mesi per trascriverle. “E che problema c’e’?” gli ha detto lui. “Assumi degli stagisti che lavorano una decina di ore alla settimana”.
Il trentanovenne signor Jonathan [...]

DAILY NEWS, published 3 February, 2010
Say goodbye to yet another dusty, musty piece of vanishing Manhattan.
All that’s now left of Skyline Books is a sign in the window reading “End of an Era. Thanks for 20 Great Years.”
That’s how long Robert Warren’s used book store at 13 W. 18th St. lasted - a kind of hole-in- the-wall [...]

THE NEW YORK TIMES, published 11 November, 2009

The message on Rodney Bradford’s Facebook page, posted at 11:49 a.m. on Oct. 17, asked where his pancakes were. The words were typed from a computer in his father’s apartment in Harlem.

Rodney Bradford used Facebook to provide an alibi in a robbery case.

At the time, the sentence, written in [...]

THE HUFFINGTON POST, published 6 November, 2009
A group of Brooklyn teachers went back to school this week for some vital retraining. Computer skills? New Math? No, good old-fashioned handwriting.
About 70 educators attended a workshop at Boerum Hill’s PS 261 on Pacific Street on Tuesday organized by Handwriting Without Tears, a national group that hopes to [...]

THE NEW YORK TIMES - City Room, published 21 October, 2009
A judge on Wednesday acquitted a Brooklyn maintenance worker who was arrested in 2007 for carrying a bundle of fake dynamite he found in the trash.
Ending a bench trial, the judge, Acting Justice Vincent M. Del Giudice of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, scoffed at prosecutors’ [...]

DAILY NEWS, published 23 June, 2009
Rosa Martinez used to stroll to the local money transfer office in Corona every week to send $200 to her family in Cuenca,Ecuador.
She still goes to the Delgado Travel office, but not to send money. Instead, it is she who collects a little cash from those family members in Cuenca.
“My husband used to earn [...]

THE HUFFINGTON POST, published 20 May, 2009
Gertha Brice shielded herself from the rain beneath a narrow awning in East Flatbush. Sunday services had just ended at Zelateurs Union Baptist Church and Brice, in a cheerful pink suit, chatted with fellow Haitian-American parishioners about the less cheerful economy. Next door, an empty Western Union money transfer office [...]