Reinvention of News (The Jackal)

  • Megan Lucero
It’s not just global news. Megan Lucero, who leads The Bureau Local project at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, is shaking up the UK’s local news sector through a network of 400 reporters and bloggers from myriad local outlets. They collaborate in data journalism investigations, using technology tools to trawl the vast pool of digitised online information available on public services.
Stories are published simultaneously across dozens of local titles for national impact. ‘Communities need to be served, but issues need to be raised in places of power so it’s important to get a national story out of what we do,’ says Lucero. The Bureau Local has recently produced data-led scoops exposing racist profiling in Home Office immigration spot checks and revealing that more than 1,000 vulnerable women have been turned away from under-resourced women’s refuges.