The Guardian is publishing a series of articles as part of the Unreported Britain project, launched by the Orwell Prize together with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) as part of a new journalism award: the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils.
The prize will focus on journalism that gives people access to the tools and evidence to make up their own minds about the contours of 21st-century Britain. As local media collapse, people do not see their stories reported in their own communities, let alone brought to the attention of policymakers in distant Westminster. Any democratic deficit is shaped by a reporting deficit.
The Unreported Britain project is intended to launch a debate about what we don’t know – and why we don’t know it. Stephen Armstrong, the author of the articles hosted on the Guardian’s website, has travelled across the UK to report from marginalised communities, those struggling on the edge of society. You can read more about the project here.
