Who WeARE
About Us
We are creating journalism with our communities for our communities turning audiences who have been exploited and marginalized and mistreated by the media into change agents, storytellers, and architects of their own destinies.
Ours is to use journalism to speak to those with power and empower those without, we are re-centering the idea of journalism from what journalism is about to whom the journalism is for and whom we are creating it with.
The Challenge
The media is littered with stories depicting poor neighborhoods as one plagued by drug trafficking, disease and violence, reinforcing a mainstream narrative that fails to account for the full experience of those who live in the community.
Through our community-based journalism using cell phones and social media we counter mainstream narratives, document abuses, and report police violence in the inner cities.
In contrast with the mainstream narrative of the marginalized and poor communities, we think our neighborhoods are places with a lot of power and amazing idea. This is a space of resistance for the poor who fight every day to combat the larger, very intentional, systems that seek to profit from the lives of marginalized residents.
Our approach
We are creating journalism with our communities for our communities turning audiences who have been exploited and marginalized and mistreated by the media into change agents, storytellers, and architects of their own destinies.
Ours is to use journalism to speak to those with power and empower those without, we are re-centering the idea of journalism from what journalism is about to whom the journalism is for and whom we are creating it with.
MEET THE TEAM
Editor-at-Large
James Smart
Project Manager
Raphael Obonyo
Production Manager
Kizito Gamba
2019 - 2021
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