Not Quite Blind Date’, written and performed by City University journalism graduate Akshay Patel, based on his investigation into racism on the queer dating scene. The piece, reimagined as a dating gameshow for performance, featured verbatim quotes from Patel’s interviewees. Performing (l-r) Akshay Patel, and actors Ben Wickramasuriya, Caleb Cura, Eliott Swan.
In an age of headline-skimming and bottomless social media feeds, the connection between journalists and their audience is crumbling. Town criers became smartphone notifications and readers often do not understand how the news is created.
This is not about nostalgia for the newspapers of yore. The lack of…