Join our U.S. Economy News Hunt with PBS, NewsHour and UNR

This week, NewsTrust joins forces with PBS Engage, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) to find quality journalism on the U.S. Economy in one of our biggest news hunts to date.

From Monday, October 20 through Sunday, October 26 we will be searching together for quality news and opinion on how the financial crisis affects our jobs, taxes and other aspects of our lives. NewsHour viewers, PBS Engage members and staff, and more than 130 students from the UNR Reynolds School of Journalism will participate in this news hunt, alongside our community. We will post the top rated stories and other results here on our blog on Wednesday, October 29.

This news hunt is part of a series of topics we've featured over the past month that concern the 2008 presidential election, now less than two weeks away. Our other featured topics in this series have included energy, foreign policy, health care and immigration.

Co-hosting this news hunt will be Marsha Iverson and Walter Cox, who have offered their time and expertise to lead our community in reviewing and submitting stories. Thanks Marsha and Walter!

We would also like to thank our partners who are making this collaboration possible:  Jayme Swain, Laura Hertzfeld, Kevin Dando, Amy Baroch and Lauren Saks from the PBS Engage team; Lee Banville, editor of the Online NewsHour; and Donica Mensing of the UNR Reynolds School of Journalism. (pictured below from left to right are Laura Hertzfeld, Jayme Swain, Fabrice Florin, Lee Banville and Derek Hawkins)

We look forward to a successful news hunt with our wonderful partners, hosts and reviewers. To get started, visit our U.S. Economy topic page and review unrated stories, or submit a new story. If you're not already a NewsTrust member, sign up here.