Smartphones are powerful tools for creating audio-visual stories that are optimised for online and social media. But they are also unique tools for tackling prejudices within newsrooms that can hold s...
Geertje Algera
Geertje Algera is the owner of Geertje Algera Media, a training consultancy aimed at empowering people and organisations to tell stories with their smartphone. She says a smartphone is a powerful storytelling tool, and that anybody can learn these skills: “Using a smartphone to make videos can make all the difference, and bring the stories that matter to life.” Geertje was a senior video journalist with the Dutch public TV broadcaster KRO-NCRV for many years. She worked around the world as a reporter, specialising in human interest stories. In 2014, she recognised the potential of smartphones to gather stories that might otherwise go untold - the stories of vulnerable communities - migrants, children and teenagers, the LGTBI community, people of faith, and people with disabilities. Geertje was the first smartphone journalist to make reports for Dutch National Television (NPO2). She is a regular guest lecturer at Utrecht School of Journalism. You can watch some of her work here.
