Workshop joins New America to find new sources

Investigative Reporting Workshop

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

For communities of color around the country, a continuing housing collapse may be ahead. In Maryland, the country's wealthiest majority-black county is devastated by foreclosures, and the state mediation program is having little impact. In California, minority homeowners from urban Oakland to the rural Central Valley are struggling to bounce back from foreclosure, as New America Media reports in our joint project. And as Donald Barlett and James Steele report later this week, even veterans are not exempt.

Our package co-published with msnbc.com and New America Media this week will continue over the next several days. We are featuring profiles of people who have come through the foreclosure mess and are trying to start over, and next week will look at housing counselors, who also have suffered personally and professionally.

Our partnership with New America Media has allowed us to expand our resources, and to join forces with ethnic media reporters and New America staff, including Charlene Muhammad with Final Call, Shawn Liu with World Journal, Róger Lindowith La Opinion and Jaya Padmanabhan with India Currents. The stories also will showcase the work of photographer Joseph Rodriguez and videographer Cliff Parker. The stories were translated into Spanish, Chinese and Korean and made available to media outlets in California.

Our Sunday story will be featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Barlett and Steele will do a live chat with readers on Monday at 1 p.m.

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We publish online and in print, often teaming up with other news organizations. We post quarterly updates to our BankTracker project, in which you can view the financial health of every bank and credit union in the country, with msnbc.com, and we co-publish stories in our What Went Wrong project with The Philadelphia Inquirer and New America Media. Learn more on our partners page.

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