People-Powered Storytelling is a new collaborative series showcasing the transformative power of grassroots, community-centred media across the UK. This project brings together ten dynamic news and media organisations, each dedicated to creating stories driven by real, lived experiences.
Our organisations were first brought together by the Lankelly Chase Foundation in 2020 due to our shared values and missions. We have since remained a network, learning from and supporting each other through both our achievements and our challenges. By amplifying the voices of communities and prioritising lived experiences, we feel that our individual approaches are collectively reshaping what news and media can and should be.
Our contributors are The Bristol Cable, The Ferret and Greater Govanhill Magazine, On Our Radar, The People’s Newsroom, Travellers' Times, Public Interest News Foundation, Sounddelivery Media, Untelevised, Fully Focused, and the former Head of Editorial at gal-dem. Between us, our projects span media and journalism across print, digital, podcast, broadcast and filmmaking. We are all based across the UK, and our work with different communities deeply informs the journalism that we do.
With People-Powered Storytelling, we wanted to demonstrate how community-led storytelling can reshape our understanding of the world and drive meaningful change, with tangible evidence from our respective work. We hope this project serves as a collective record of our work, and can be a resource for others in the media space; a showcase of impact through outlining our successes and challenges with honesty and candour; and a call for investment through illustrating how such support can lead to a healthier and more inclusive future for news and storytelling.
We would like to thank PINF for hosting this series, Lankelly Chase for bringing us together and funding this project and Megan Lucero for being our facilitator in 2023 and 2024. People-Powered Storytelling was illustrated by Heedayah Lockman and edited and project-managed by Suyin Haynes. If you have any questions about the series or would like to get in touch with any questions or to talk further, please contact us via email here.
