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Danielle Batist is an experienced freelance journalist, founder of Journopreneur and co-founder of the Constructive Journalism Project. She lived and worked all around the globe and covered global and local stories of poverty, exclusion and injustice. Increasingly, she moved beyond ‘problem-reporting’ to include stories about the solutions she found. She witnessed the birth of the new nation of South Sudan and interviewed the Dalai Lama. She reported for Al Jazeera, BBC and the Guardian and regularly advises independent media organisations on innovation and sustainability. She loves bringing stories to the world and finding the appropriate platforms to do so. The transformation of traditional media fascinates rather than scares her. While both the medium and the message are changing, she believes the need for good storytelling remains.
Life In The Shadow Of Grenfell
A powerful group of voices of the people in ‘the tower next door’ to Grenfell, this multimedia series was commissioned by the Guardian’s Inequality Project and the paper’s weekend magazine.
The aim of this portrait of the area is to show the close community for what it is and let its stories be told by the people who live there. Journalist Simon Hattenstone, cameraman Alex Healey and photographer Christian Sinibaldi spent time with residents of Whitstable House, a tower looking much like Grenfell, on the neighbouring council estate.
The journalists started meeting with residents six weeks after the deadly fire killed 71 people in Grenfell Tower in the early hours of 14 June. It was weeks after the crowds of reporters had left the scene and the area, as Hattenstone describes, felt "quiet and ghostly".
The videos in particular are powerful and the words of the residents give you goose bumps. Much of the reporting shows the daily reality for those who saw the fire from their own flat windows. Hattenstone observes how one lady he visits makes tea in her kitchen while avoiding to look out of the window:
The view of Grenfell, black and unforgiving, never gets any less shocking: burnt-out satellite dishes on the roof; plastic sheets flapping in an empty window frame; an eerie electric light that illuminates forensic teams bent double on the floor; huge white bags piled in the back garden. "We never really noticed the tower before," Lens says, "but now you can’t not look at it.”
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