Lawrence Bartley

Director

News Inside & Inside Story | The Marshall Project

Lawrence Bartley is the founder and director of News Inside, the print publication of The Marshall Project which is distributed in hundreds of prisons and jails throughout the United States. News Inside is the recipient of the 2020 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media. Lawrence was a member of the teams behind The Zo, winner of the 2020 Oline Journalism Award for “Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling” and “What Do We Really Know About the Politics of People Behind Bars?” which was an honorable mention recipient for the 2020 Phillip Meyers Awards. He is also an accomplished public speaker and has provided multimedia content for CNN, PBS, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC and more.

Participating Sessions

COLLABORATION IN ACTION

For a variety of reasons, be they practical or philosophical, many filmmakers and journalists are engaging the protagonists of their films, not as subjects, but as collaborators. What does collaboration between filmmakers and subjects look like in action? What are some factors that precipitate a shared project, and what are the distribution of roles, resources and credits? Who gets the final cut, or the final say in how the story...