Students from Craft of Journalism II, Craft II for Broadcast, and Interactive II classes teamed up this semester for a series of multimedia story packages built around 2010 U.S. Census data. The project, Changing New York: Census 2010, went live this week on the CUNY J-School’s NYCity News Service website.

The stories are divided into four sections: “Between the Numbers: Looking past the data into the faces of New Yorkers: Who was counted? Who wasn’t?”; “Moving In/Moving Out: Examining demographic shifts on the local level: What changed? And what stayed the same?”; “Neighborhood Anchors: How individual people and businesses epitomize communities or change them.”; and “Live in the City: NYC events reported live — unfolding before your eyes — and recorded for review.”

“This is really a converged project,” said News Service Director Jere Hester. “It was the best example of this kind of work since the 2008 election.”

The introduction to the project reads as follows:

There are eight million stories in the Naked City — or 8,175,133, to be more precise, according to recently released U.S. Census Bureau figures. NYCity News Service reporters hit the streets to put faces to the numbers in a series of story packages that offer snapshots of who we are, how we live — and where. We found the only thing you can count on in the city is change.

Here’s a sampling of videos: