The Our City project is the first in a series of topic specific global journalism experiments committed to solving the most pressing problems of our time through local reporting on global issues. Instead of depending on a strategy of journalists from influential institutions fanning out to hot spots around the world to produce authentic reports, this experiment focuses on enabling local storytellers to report on global issues with training and assistance from the Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami.
According to census data, only 17.8 percent of the population of Miami-Dade county is comprised of White, non-Hispanic people compared to more than 60 percent in the rest of Florida and more than 50 percent of the people living in Miami-Dade county were born outside of the United States. These audio narratives examine issues of language and migration.