Interview with Barrie Stephenson

Posted by aurelia on 25 September, 2011

DSA interviews Barrie Stephenson, Founder / Director of Digistories UK and Executive Producer of the BBC Telling LivesDigital Storytelling project that ran in England between 2002 and 2005.

“I saw my first digital story in 2001. For someone who has been in broadcasting and journalism for many years, I looked at the story and I thought, this is amazing, this is so different from anything that we do as journalists and broadcasters.

Because people were telling their own stories with their own voice and with their own pictures, and there was some real authenticity about it. You just felt that it was honest…”

When the Telling Lives project ended Barrie began Digistories to continue to pass on the skills of digital storytelling to a wide range of communities.