The jfa’s Storytelling Basics Series is coming to an end this month with Investigations from Home. Organising these three skill-building workshops has been such an exciting time for our team, and is a crucial part of our mission to amplify underrepresented stories on justice and human rights, as well as guide first-time writers and creators through the storytelling process.
As travel has halted in this unprecedented time, this workshop focuses on how to put stories together from home. We will explore how technology can, and has, allowed for new forms of storytelling to emerge. The Covid-19 pandemic has also radically changed the storytelling landscape: how photographers are working on crafting long-term projects, how storytellers are able to work with their local communities, and how journalists are still telling stories of national importance - all from inside their homes. Fundamentally, our team wanted to reflect on the power of staying local - a story told from home can be well-researched, impactful and even collaborative.
Joined by Cat McShane, we invite you to spend February 28, 2021, 11am - 12pm GMT with us learning all about how to tell powerful, national investigative stories from home, work with your local community, and reach wider audiences with unique forms of storytelling that take advantage of the opportunities brought by multimedia.
What will I learn at this workshop?
How to tell national stories locally - and how to find local stories that have national significance - using homelessness during Covid-19 as an example.
Working with local and community specific organisations - how to identify who could be useful, how to approach them, how to build trust and what to ask them to help you with.
Tips on how to build close and trusting relationships with vulnerable contributors from home.
Not everything has to be an article! Learn different ways to tell your stories, engage wide audiences and empower your contributors.
This workshop will be on Zoom and is open to anyone, everywhere. We particularly want to encourage participation from people who may be structurally marginalised, and are struggling to break into investigative journalism.