Working at the intersection of systems change, community power and journalism

I'm an experienced director, strategist and fundraiser and an award-winning journalist and editor in the field of people-powered journalism.

I’m keen to work with and support newsrooms and civic organizations to build emergent programmes, design participatory processes and actualise inclusion and power-shifting.

CONTACT ME: [email protected]

Building emergent programmes

Want to develop cutting-edge, emergent teams and programmes that forge a new future for journalism and information providing?

→ Let’s build ambitious, transformational programmes that are people-powered, highly impactful and truly inclusive.

• I designed, launched and ran Bureau Local, an award-winning newsroom and collaborative reporting network in the UK. The Bureau Local co-investigates underreported issues with marginalized communities to set the news agenda and spark change from the ground up.
• I also developed The People’s Newsroom, a long-term infrastructure programme for diversifying and sustaining community journalism in the UK.

Designing participatory processes

Want to shift from top-down decision making? Ensure your work, funds or programmes are informed, shaped or even co-created by the very communities you want to serve?

→ Let’s design participatory methods that make the process easier and more equitable for everyone.

I’ve designed participatory investigations:

• A blueprint for investigative journalism’: how the Bureau worked with riders to investigate Deliveroo
• How can journalism be useful? Working with grassroots groups to investigate health exclusion

I’ve designed collective vision, manifesto and coalition building:

• Change The Story: The Bureau’s five month consultation with communities to develop a mandate for the future of journalism

Actualising inclusion and power-shifting

Want to go beyond the tick-box and develop meaningful diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in your work? Or go even further and shift power to the communities you aim to serve?

→ Let’s actualise commitments to inclusion and shift power to develop equity and true belonging between our organizations and communities.

• I have experience turning DEIAB goals into actionable frameworks and initiatives. I designed and oversaw a pilot to share knowledge, power and tools with an emerging journalism leadership programme, our Decolonising The News initiative and our participatory investigation process (see above).