How might we tell stories that don’t just describe the world, but help to remake it together?

GJA is a community of people who believe journalism can do more than inform - it can reveal, restore, and reimagine.

Communities carry within them the wisdom and capacity to renew and regenerate. Journalism, when rooted in care, justice, and imagination, can help surface and steward that process.

We are an ecosystem of living practice with a shared commitment to story as a tool for healing, truth-telling, and transformation - locally-rooted and planetary-wide.

Principles for a Life-Giving Journalism

Generative journalism is the act of publishing media that directly represents people’s experiences and intentions, is without interpretation, and generates new life.

​With roots in Appreciative Inquiry and Asset-Based Community Development, Generative Journalism is more than a journalistic practice - it seeks to create bridges between individuals and the larger systems in which we are entangled.

The practice of Generative Journalism, while not widely publicised, is decades old. It’s early practitioners identified a few key principles which continue to guide our work:

• Honour Human Dignity
• Orient to Possibility
• Surface Preferred Futures
• Privilege People’s Stories Over Institutional Ones
• Protect Stories from Being Co-Opted
• Preserve Source’s Story Ownership
• Enable and Ennoble Agency

For a longer reflection check out Introducing Our Generative Journalism Alliance.

To find out how to get involved visit Pathways to Generative Journalism.