PRODUCT AND STRATEGY
Project Oasis - a research study on the sustainability of independent digital native media in Europe
SembraMedia, April 2023Project Oasis is a year-long research project on the sustainability, innovation, and impact of independent digital native news organisations in more than 40 countries across Europe. Its goal is to bring greater visibility to digital native media organisations, and to uncover new insights about the trends, opportunities, and challenges in this growing market sector. An interactive directory of 540 media organisations can be explored, and a narrative report and individual country summaries provide additional context and in-depth information about the media landscape of the countries studied.
Building the Engaged Journalism in Europe Database
Engaged Journalism Accelerator, August 2018. Last updated in January 2021.In 2018, I developed a public database of European news organisations practising community-driven journalism. The database, which initially had 70 news organisations, has grown to feature 189 news organisations in 35 countries in Europe. The database has been used in academic curriculums in journalism programmes, it has been cited and has inspired academic research into engaged journalism, and has been used as an event resource for finding relevant news organisations and speakers.
Coordinating the Accelerator Ambassador Network, a knowledge-sharing initiative for engaged journalism practitioners in Europe
Engaged Journalism Accelerator, April 2019I designed and coordinated a professional development programme called the Accelerator Ambassador Network. This experimental initiative facilitated knowledge-sharing, professional development and provided financial support for six engaged journalism practitioners in six countries (UK, Sweden, Poland, The Netherlands, France and Italy) to experiment with community-driven approaches in their newsrooms.
Producing the Engagement Explained newsletter
Engaged Journalism Accelerator, October 2018 - January 2021A bi-monthly (and subsequently monthly) newsletter developed and published with my programme team. Examples here, here and here.
WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING
I have designed and delivered more than a dozen events, workshops and roundtables all over Europe, both in-person and online, ranging from 15 to 200 participants. This includes programme development, budget management, stakeholder management and logistics, and co-creation of sessions with external facilitators and speakers. As part of this, I have managed budgets of more than €100,000 and my events have consistenly received positive feedback and an average of 4.5/5 CSAT score.
You can find out more about the themes of these events here, here and here.
REPORT WRITING / EDITING
How funding journalism in a crisis has impacted journalists and their communities
European Journalism COVID-19 Support Fund/ Medium, April 2021
What would journalism look like if it was generated from within communities? Engaged Journalism Accelerator, March 2019
Stronger journalism through shared power
Engaged Journalism Accelerator, July 2019
CASE STUDIES & ARTICLES
How OC Media is training the next generation of freelance journalists in the Caucasus region Engaged Journalism Accelerator, August 2020
How The Local Sweden created a micro-community around books about Swedish culture
Engaged Journalism Accelerator, March 2020
Seattle's KUOW is hosting 'Ask A...' conversations to foster empathy and understanding between communities journalism.co.uk, February 2018
Spaceship Media is using 'dialogue journalism' to enable productive conversations between communities at odds
journalism.co.uk, January 2018
A complete archive of my published work on journalism.co.uk can be found here.