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Solutions Journalism Is
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COVERING WHAT WORKS,
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RIGOROUS REPORTING ON
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We train and connect journalists to cover what’s missing in today’s news: how people are responding to problems.

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Solutions journalism, in the words of our network.

Solutions Journalism...

  • Can be character-driven, but focuses in-depth on a response to a problem and how the response works in meaningful detail
  • Focuses on effectiveness, not good intentions, presenting available evidence of results
  • Discusses the limitations of the approach
  • Seeks to provide insight that others can use
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From the Blog

Election 2020: Telling a different story

The Solution Journalism Network’s Renewing Democracy initiative provides grant funding for solutions-focused coverage that avoids hyperpartisanship and sensationalism to explore what works.

July 13, 2019

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Now Offering: Mountain West Travel Grants

Would traveling to another community help you tell a better solutions story? If you’re a local journalist working in the Mountain West, these grants can help

June 25, 2019

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Introducing the LEDE Fellowship

Got an idea for a solutions journalism project in your community (and beyond)? The LEDE Fellowship could be a great opportunity.

June 23, 2019

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“We were really scared to talk about it”: How solutions journalism helped confront college drinking

The resulting project spurs self-examination and strategies for change

June 23, 2019

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10 Grants to Support Your Solutions Reporting

Need some support to make your solutions journalism story happen? These grants can help.

June 17, 2019

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How to Cover Incarceration Using a Solutions Lens

We brought together three journalists to tell us how to change the current narrative around incarceration

May 29, 2019

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How do you spell solutions journalism?E-v-i-d-e-n-c-e

How a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist-turned professor overcame his skepticism and embraced rigorous reporting on responses to problems

May 26, 2019

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How educator Kathryn Thier helps the next journalist generation see their “role in society”

“I quickly realized that the course had to both be about teaching students the skills and writing of solutions journalism. But it also had to be about the role of the journalist in society, and exploring why they may want to consider solutions journalism.”

May 23, 2019

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