Bridge the Gulf Project (2 min.) from Leah on Vimeo.
"Bridge the Gulf … provides a space for residents of Gulf Coast neighborhoods to upload their own videos, photos, and written stories about everything from the BP oil spill to community development projects. Residents have stories to tell and also possess the basic tools to tell them; by providing a public forum, Bridge the Gulf weaves those stories together into a larger, crowdsourced narrative that’s more powerful than the sum of its parts."
− YES! Magazine
"On the Gulf Coast — a region so battered by disasters in recent years that the national news media is nearly omnipresent — some residents decided to seize (the) cameras and mics for themselves."
− STATE OF THE REUNION: Bridge the Gulf Gives Residents A Voice
This video is a two-minute introduction to BridgeTheGulfProject.org, a community journalism project created by and for Gulf Coast communities working toward a just, healthy and sustainable future. The video was created for a presentation at Good Pitch in 2011. The beta website has been live since July 2010 and has become an important resource for endangered Gulf Coast communities. Design of the site is currently being upgraded with funds from the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and will go live in early 2014. Funding and partnerships are needed to sustain and grow the program that provides training and mentorship to aspiring community journalists and for a speakers bureau of Gulf Coast community leaders.
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