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.
