“Local Journalism Is The Lifeblood Of Communities”

In 2018 Facebook was launching a new initiative designed to support local journalism and help to increase news literacy and awareness around the world. The Facebook Journalism Project came to Code and Theory to create a custom website as well as produce Case Study videos that would bring to life some of the real stories of local journalism and the impact it can have.

We shot on location in Washington D.C. at the Pulitzer Center as well as going to Mesa Dairy Farm in Wisconsin to give a voice to the people this story is about. We created storyboards, shooting scripts, conducted the interviews, and executed what was essentially a series of documentary shorts– ranging in topics from the Dairy Farm Crisis, to a story by the Philadelphia Inquirer about lead in city soil, to how newsrooms can manage transformations into digital.