Megan Lucero
Practitioner and Consultant
Megan Lucero
Practitioner and Consultant
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:
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).