Community journalist Claudia Murg gives a passionate and very personal argument for why good journalism is local journalism. Along the way she recounts her remarkable journey from Communist Romania to British chip shop worker and on to award-winning TV reporting. Claudia Murg went from being a child of Communist Romania, to illegal immigrant in a London fish & chip shop in the early nineties, to becoming a broadcast journalist and award-winning documentary film-maker for UK’s mainstream television for 15 years. She now focuses her energy on community journalism, in her chosen hometown of Southampton. She traded expensive London offices, for a bus, converted into an office, which she drives in Southampton to talk to people face to face. We Make Southampton, is her social enterprise, with a mission to capture the ‘contemporary portrait of Southampton’ and in the process, inform, inspire and connect. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx