November 7th, 2011
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I tried to channel the distress, mine and theirs, into motivation to do the best damn job possible selecting pieces so these stories might impact someone who is in a position to help.

- Galen Bernard, of Yahoo News, talks with ONA about selecting submissions for Down but Not Out: Stories from Long Term Unemployment, a Tumblr blog that documents the hardships that accompany long term unemployment. The crowdsourced blog is comprised of stories submitted by the unemployed.


ONA takes a look behind the scenes with the team at YahooNews that created and curate the project. Read the full interview on journalists.org - How They Did It: Yahoo! Crowdsources the American Unemployment Crisis - Online News Association. 

(Source: journalists.org)

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