The Global Pop-Up Newsroom

Abstract

David Baines and Devadas Rajaram explain Global Pop-Up Newsroom, which was launched in 2013 by partners in the U.S. (California State University, Northridge), the UK (Newcastle University) and India (the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai). The project allows students to challenge taken-for-granted paradigms and professional and ideological boundaries and use mobile and social media to develop new modes of collaborative journalistic practice across borders and across cultures to explore issues of critical global concern. The twice-a-year iterations have addressed poverty, migration, food, human rights and, annually, International Women’s Day (IWD). They have engaged participants from some 20 countries and five continents and, as a laboratory of inquiry and innovation, attracted the attention of the UN, UNESCO, MIT and influenced journalism education around the world. In 2023, it was part of a Fulbright Project involving participation by a New York Times journalist in the Global Pop-Up Newsroom’s IWD coverage. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Katherine C. Blair, Marion Coomey and Faith Sidlow; individual chapters, the contributors.