Black Box, or ‘Musta Laatikko’ in Finnish, is the live journalism production of Helsingin Sanomat, the largest daily newspaper in Finland.
Back Pocket Media premiered Philly Story Fest in the Bok auditorium in Philadellphia to a sold-out crowd on October 5th, 2023. The theme for the inaugural Story Fest was “A Love Letter to Philly.” The stories were windows that allowed attendees to catch a glimpse of the city in all its complexity - through art, performance, journalism and music.
Everybody is Gone is an immersive art performance and research project co-created by Uyghur artist Mukaddas Mijit, U.S. journalist Jessica Batke, and The New Wild, a multidisciplinary art lab.
In early 2021, the Contemporary Narratives Lab embarked on its second project, bringing together interactive theatre-maker Coney and the Health Inequality team at Bureau Local, part of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Photo/Video: Ruari Barber-Fleming
“Thug”
“Serial Offender”
“Victim”
As words normally associated with crime reporting flashed up on screen, eight performers strode onto the stage at the Tron theatre in Glasgow to kick off It’s Criminal, a live journalism project exploring the impact traditional crime reporting is having on Govanhill, an Glaswegian neighbourhood whose citizens are often scapegoated or blamed for crime.
How does the way the media reports on crime affect communities? That’s what It’s Criminal, a new storytelling project taking place in Glasgow this year, aims to find out.
The Financial Times and Nikkei commissioned Rhizomatiks, a Tokyo based arts collective, to create a new 6 minute video that explored the real life environmental cost of bitcoin mining.
20Twenties: Eve of Destruction is a climate anthem released in October 2022. It is created by Daily Maverick, one of the largest independent news media in South Africa, and sung by Anneli Kamfer.
The Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting connects artists with major news publications that are seeking to create new contexts for investigative work. CAIR works with editors, newsrooms and educational institutions to develop projects and courses. It was recently founded by Marisa Katz and Jake Charles Rees.
Toronto Rewind is an interactive online festival that took place in November and December 2021. Using the Gather app, it brought participants into the heart of six unique stories that offer new perspectives on people, places and events from Toronto’s past, told by local journalists and storytellers.
I gave this talk at the ECREA Journalism conference in Utrecht on June 17. It was part of a panel on Designing for deeper audience engagement that brought together researchers and journalism practitioners to discuss questions concerning the design for deeper audience engagement. The panel covered topics such as metrics, interactive formats, and finding a balance between audience-journalist participation.
The Perugia International Journalism Festival resumed this April, after a two-year break. I was fortunate enough to participate in a panel on artist-journalist collaborations with Alison Killing, Surya Mattu and Ivan Sigal, moderated by Marisa Katz. We had all worked with publications to make art, write stories, and to provide artists with a space to voice their distinctive viewpoints on world events and urgent issues.
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I gave the following keynote on stage in Bucharest, Romania, on October 18 at the Power of Storytelling, an (un)conference built on the idea that well-crafted stories connect people, heal wounds, inspire, lead, and create change.
I gave the following keynote on the media stage at the Fifteen Seconds Festival, an interdisciplinary festival for business, innovation, and creativity, in Graz, Austria on June 6, 2019.
This is an expanded version of the talk I gave at a panel called “Goodbye News, Hello Drama: visual forms and post-news journalism” at the 2019 Perugia International Journalism Festival. I am indebted to many for the ideas here, but especially to my fellow panelists Hossein Derakshan, Shazna Nessa and Lucy Rohr for the conversation.
