How to do it:

Train your artist’s eye. Watch around you for juxtapositions and interesting images that tell a story. You don’t have to be a professional photographer or writer to share information. In these days of fake stories and news, it’s important that a story emerge from multiple sources with different points of view. (Literally and figuratively.)

Learn how to use your phone. Search, or ask a young person to teach you. Get familiar with cropping, adding text and stickers, and taking video. Think about the images you see on your feeds: are they vertical or horizontal? Learn to take images and video without unlocking your phone first.

Avoid pictures of people’s faces unless you ask first. Take pictures from behind, invite them to cover their face (e.g. in pictures of protest signs) or use “stickers” to obscure faces. Remove metadata from files that might be sensitive, like illegal actions. Redact names and locations unless you have permission to share them. Protect the people in the events you cover.

You’re carrying tools in your pocket a WWI journalist could only have dreamed of. Put them to use and flood the zone with reporting.