Building a New Storytelling Movement

By: Lene Bech Sillesen | CJR

A couple of months after the Newtown school shooting, Judy Rodgers, founding director of the nonprofit Images and Voices of Hope, read a story in The New Yorker that she couldn’t shake. “Local Story,” by Rachel Aviv, followed the inner workings of community newspaper The Newtown Bee as reporters and editors tried to bring their community closer while the town was flooded with outsiders, and to find a meaningful way of moving forward in the aftermath of the tragedy.