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ProPublica calls upon CitJ’s

Citizen journalists called upon to ‘Adopt a Stimulus’
Editors Weblog, May 25, 2009
http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/05/citizen_journalists_called_upon_to_adopt.php

The investigative non-profit news project ProPublica launched a Web site yesterday that will be used by citizen journalists to report every facet of the stimulus plan. The ProPublica Reporting Network, their mission is on the front page: “The federal government is propping up Wall Street with a massive bailout that will cost the public billions. The government recently signed the largest stimulus bill in history. Making sense of our new—and ever changing—landscape requires piecing together your stories neighborhood-by-neighborhood and state-by-state. That’s where you come in.”

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