PAMPHLET (36 pages) / 2020

Up until relatively recently news and journalism has been a relatively simple business - advertisers would pay journalists to get to us, and we would pay journalists to tell us stuff.

Following vast technological, social and econimic shifts this economic model, between the journalist, the reader and the advertiser, is changing. If we are no longer paying for our news, who is paying for our journalism? How can we know what information to trust? and what if we could do it ourselves?

Arranged into three distinct chapters the Do It Ourselves Journalism (DIOJ) handbook offers a brief overview of this predicament and its implications, before offering us a collective proposition (what if we did it ourselves?) before closing with a case study that covers the actually existing DIOJ project We Are Our Media, active from 2016-19, and it’s tabloid newspaper The Eclipse.

This pamphlet was developed and produced by artist Andrew Wilson as part of Testing Ground, an artist residency programme hosted and managed by In-Situ in the town of Briarfield, located in the Borough of Pendle, Lancashire.