Journalism is dead, long live journalism. The Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street have taught the world that “news” needs no longer be something “gathered” by foreign journalists from prestigious international news operations, that it is often most engaging and effective when stories are told by people from the inside—by those who live it, breathe it and know it like no one else.
For the past 7 years, The Tiziano Project, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit, has assembled a team of multimedia journalists and dispatched them to places as far away as East Jerusalem, Kabul, Latvia and as close as South Los Angeles to train folks living in those communities on using social media, photography, video to tell their stories and their struggles.
KPCC’s very own visual journalist Grant Slater has been involved in The Tiziano Project since the beginning. He talks to guest host Frank Stoltz about the group’s latest training project in Sri Lanka.
The Tiziano Project:
www.tizianoproject.org
www.facebook.com/tizianoproject
The Sri Lanka workshops:
instagram.com/grantslater#
everydaysrilanka.tumblr.com/
Guest:
Grant Slater, KPCC’s visual journalist and a mentor with The Tiziano Project. He tweets at