The People’s Newsroom has been exploring how storytelling can support transitions away from extractive economies and towards regenerative and life-giving ones. A theme that came up in our learning together was the importance of stories about emerging futures being located in specific places, histories and communities.
The stories we tell about the world are not separate from culture – they both shape and are our culture.
This may seem self-evident but this truth is not systematically acknowledged within some of our most influential storytelling spaces: newsrooms.
