Much of literature and journalism is about identity. Debates about contemporary issues – globalization, immigration, religious conflict– have identity as a basis.

Who are we?

How are we changed by the world around us?

What is our impact on others?

In The Reporter's Notebook podcast,...

Some 80 students from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, home of the NYCity News Service, hit the streets armed with Flip Video recorders, and asked scores of New Yorkers: "Tell us one way the recession has changed your life."

The answers...