CJR offers Audit guide to bailouts, stimulus

By Robin J Phillips on Nov 24, 2009 in Basics, Investigation, Tools

In a specially commissioned study, Columbia Journalism Review’s The Audit has released a first-stop, comprehensive guide to the big federal spending programs.

As they say in The Audit today, Read it. Love it. Use it daily.

We are one year after the financial crisis and $700 billion bailout and a couple of months before the first anniversary of the stimulus plan.

As CJR says:

These dubious anniversaries have sparked their share of retrospective coverage, book releases, and much editorializing. (And at least one multimedia graphic where you can see which members of the “Lehman diaspora” are now making it rain at UBS, Citigroup and elsewhere.)

The Audit offers a refresher course on the meltdown. And then it looked at online resources tracking the bailout and stimulus money, from government web sites to independently run operations.

As they say themselves, it’s not comprehensive, but it’s pretty good.

About the Author

I am digital director at the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism, which I joined in 2009. Before that I was Online Community Manager for azcentral, the online site for The Arizona Republic. Before arriving in Arizona, I worked at Newsday where I was Deputy Business Editor. I was the small business editor at BusinessWeek Online. I teach journalists to use Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools to expand and manage their networks. And I am a cofounder of #wjchat, a weekly Twitter chat about web journalism. You can reach me at Email: Robin.Phillips@BusinessJournalism.org OR RobinJPhillips.com OR @RobinJP