Citizen Journalism News Network - gender environmental crisis and Cornish citizen journalists

Rogers, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9935-2879 (2025) Citizen Journalism News Network - gender environmental crisis and Cornish citizen journalists. Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, Volume 14 (1). ISSN 1757-2681 (In Press)

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This paper contextualises an extended development process for a targeted intervention that sought to address an identified gender-based inequality within regional community and citizen journalism provisions inside Cornish communities, alongside evaluating data collected from the European Union (ESIF) funded project ‘Citizen Journalism News Network’ (CJNN) that was delivered in Cornwall, UK between 2017-2023. CJNN provided citizen journalism training to 200 marginalised individuals within designated ‘cold spot’ areas of Cornwall (cold-spot areas were identified as geographic regions where the uptake of places at level 4 of education were below the national UK average) and was designed as a dual method to boost higher education uptake from within marginalised demographic groups, whilst at the same time collecting specific data from the journalistic activities of participants. The research situates, correlates and evaluates 5 years of citizen journalism outputs against participant demographic data that has been further interrogated through qualitative open interviews with CJNN participants and reveals an interesting relationship between the gender of citizen journalists and their interests and actions as reporters within remotely isolated communities inside Cornwall. The CJNN project was open to all genders of prospective participant, however the CJNN project only recorded one transgender participant and all other participants identified as either male or female.

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