At a relatively young age they knew they‘d left the curriculum behind them. It’s not that they were being schooled more, or that they were inordinately bright. It’s just that their curiosity took them into the next horizon in music, creativity and collaborations. The era of Gen Zs* out-digitalizing their…

TV News journalism requires access and immediacy to events for its output. This can often hamper reportage or deep coverage. For instance consider the logistics of a journalist/ TV reporter from say, CNN, trying to get to disaster points. What’s the risk assessment? How will they cover the disaster? Fixers…

Welcome to the school of Applied Storytelling where we deconstruct and reveal storytelling practices. Today is the journalism interview. Framed by copious theory and practical output it’s supposed to eke out answers in a way a non-professional would not achieve. …

“H”ow can climate stories be improved?” was one message. “How can stories reach more people?”, was another. These were fundamental questions. Was I about to pitch too high? This last week Pakistan has been devastated by floods submerging a third of land, causing 1300 deaths, 33 million people affected (which…

It started with me sitting on the sofa with a tweet about the floods from the climate crisis, hardly shown on the news. Why isn’t the world responding he, a friend, asked me? I started to doodle my thoughts. There’s an array of crisis e.g. environment, extreme weather, cost of…

Today marks one of the most important dates in the UK’s calendar, and for those participating around the world, the State Funeral of her Majesty the Queen. Coverage of events leading up to today have been roundly applauded by the networks. Royalists and interested parties have also found the mood…

My cousin in Ghana fills he needs to remind me that our grandfather Mr Sarbah met the Queen when she visited Ghana in 1961 and he was the driver of the train she boarded. Apparently, he was given a citation.

I’m planning a speaking engagement, and this morning doodled my thoughts. The theme is How Can Storytelling Save the World? Here goes. The world is in crisis, the environment, extreme weather systems, health, climate change, authoritarianism, capitalism run amok, and cost of living. …

The sense-making is many fold, and even those who might assert they’re distant from events, symbolism and visual parallelism loom large — The Queen has died, Long live the King”. It’s the stuff of lores, an event outside many’s lifespan, being played out in a modern setting. History’s prescience, as…