Wilkine Brutus: the rise of place-based storytelling

A Marvel character. A Jamaican Arts Festival. A community garden. The variety of stories told by Haitian WLRN journalist Wilkine Brutus all tie together into one genre: community and the ties that bind.

He typically covers local news, arts and culture, current affairs, and stories that are extremely important for the community, or how a particular policy works in a particular community. But what brings him the most joy is arts and culture, because, for him, art still has a political undertone, allowing people to explore how a community functions through the lens of the arts.

Brutus has been able to merge those beats.