Fifteen video journalists from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism have produced some great reporting on the effects of the recession on individual New Yorkers. The videos are archived on Downsize NYC, which describes itself as exploring “not only the statistics but also the sensibilities of the economic crisis. Our stories consider how this recession [...]

WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show has created an online section called “Uncommon Economic Indicators” where people submit signs of the recession observed around the New York City area. These won’t show up in any government statistics or charts, but they turn the abstract gloom of macroeconomic numbers into a concrete picture of what’s happening in the [...]