#citizenbedford is a way for our town to tell its story. Our aim is to encourage people from all over Bedford to become citizen journalists to film, write, blog, tweet about and photograph our town.
#citizenbedord will also document Bedford Portas Pilot Town Team’s journey, with the help of citizen journalists.
Maybe you want to tell everyone about your community orchard, or you might want to blog about town planning. You may have a passion for photography and want to share it with others. Or maybe you want to film interviews with shopkeepers, councillors, students – anyone.
Get in touch, tell us about your project and we can help you.
If you would like to submit something for the #citizenbedford project thenyou can either:
Upload your reports/photos/blogs/audioboos etc.. to the Facebook page
Uuse the hashtage on twitter
Email thebedfordclanger@gmail.com.
Add the #citizenbedford hashtag to your work and we will collate everything on this website.
With the support of Media Trust we have run film-making, journalism and photography workshops to encourage people to share their stories. Follow our Facebook page for news of when we’ll hold more and to see what other citizen journalists have uploaded.
As part of our Portas Pilot town project, we hope that #citizenbedford will become an archive of the journey of our town through this unique experience. Something that can be shared with other towns now and in the future.
And we’d love other towns to start their own citizen journalism project too. Get in touch!
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