Solutions Journalism Training

Nelly Kalu is a trainer and multi-format journalist. Over the course of seven years, she trained over 300 broadcasters in different regions of Nigeria, and designed journalism courses for classrooms and distance learning. She is also a certified Solutions Journalism trainer; a mentor and trainer with the UNHCR Journalist Mentorship Programme, which is available to refugees, internally displaced people, and stateless people; the Broadcast Radio Masterclass, and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ).

Dina Aboughazala is an experienced Egyptian journalist and the founder of Egab; a media startup that helps local journalists from across the Middle East and Africa publish solutions journalism stories in regional and international media outlets. Prior to launching Egab in 2020, Dina worked for the BBC as a Mideast-focused senior journalist.

Dr. Arwa Kooli has recently joined the Institute of Press and Information Sciences (IPSI) in Tunisia as an Assistant Professor after being an Adjunct Professor for more than a decade. She used to be the editor-in-chief of the fact-checking platform Tunifact and she had worked as a journalist for more than 10 years. She is also a trainer in media in general and data journalism and fact-checking in particular. She has written and presented a lecture on Solutions Journalism principles and guidelines, one of its kind in Arabic available on Aljazeera e-learning platform. She has collaborated with many Arab and international organizations and training centers. She also spoke at many forums and conferences on journalism and fact-checking. She provided a number of courses at IPSI, including data journalism, data visualization, fact-checking, and she is aiming at introducing a solutions journalism course. Dr. Kooli took part in several research projects published in peer-reviewed journals. She participated in many trainings and fellowships as a trainee, including the Professional Training Fellowship within a program of the State Department in 2013 and the Journalist Training Fellowship in India in 2017, in addition to other training and programs in Ethiopia, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Turkey.

Seun Durojaiye is the co-founder of Social Voices, a new digital publication in Nigeria, rooted in public service journalism, using a solutions-based reporting approach. She is also a fellow of the African Women Journalism Project(AWJP) and previously worked as an investigative reporter at the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), where she focused on reporting about issues of Sexual and Gender-based Violence and the plights of women and children in the Nigerian society.

Originally from Chad, Aché Adoum Attimer is the founder of StopBlabla, an online platform sharing stories of the ways Africans face and find responses to the problems of the continent. She learned about solutions journalism during an international workshop, and has been studying, practicing, encouraging, training others to apply the approach ever since.

Chibuike Alagboso is a health journalist at Nigeria Health Watch, a health communication and advocacy organization based in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. His writing focuses on highlighting efforts that are tackling public health challenges in Nigeria. He also writes thought leadership articles that provide insights to health sector actors in Nigeria and supports the Nigeria side of the Solutions Journalism African Initiative as Program Manager.

Rasheed Ademola Adebiyi holds a Ph.D. in strategic communication from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He teaches public relations and advertising; news writing and reporting; and development communication in the Department of Mass Communication at Fountain University, Osogbo, Nigeria. He is a 2022 Solutions Journalism Africa Fellow in a program supported by the Solutions Journalism Network and implemented by the Nigeria Health Watch, Abuja. Rasheed is a publisher, author and solutions journalism facilitator. He teaches solutions journalism as part of his development communication class and facilitates solutions journalism sessions for campus, emerging and civic journalists in Africa. As a freelancer, he publishes solutions-focused stories for platforms; as a publisher, he serves as co-founder/editor-in-chief of AbitoCitta, a platform for solutions-focused stories in the educational sector in Africa. He also serves as associate editor for SolutionsPaper, a platform for solutions stories in Africa.

OLATOKEWA AYOADE, is a multi versatile journalist, presenter, and producer, with about ten years experience in journalism and specialty on finance and economy. She is the producer and presenter of a 30 minutes weekly program on the Economy,(TALKING ECONOMY WITH TOKE ON KISS FM RADIO,99.9 ABUJA,NIGERIA),an enlightenment magazine program on one of the foremost radio stations in Abuja. She is exposed to international training and skills on the art of presentation and interviewing, has hosted quite a number of economic analysts, Industry stakeholders in the finance and economy sector. She has MA in English and Literary Studies, post graduate diploma certificate in Advertising and Public Relations @International Institute of Journalism, ABUJA, Nigeria. A Pulitzer grantee and an alumna of Radio Netherlands Training Institute, NETHERLANDS(RNTC),a member of African Fact Checkers Association, AFCA, member of Hack hackers and Wandata, Nigeria among others. She presently heads the News department @kiss FM Radio,99.9,ABUJA,NIGERIA.

Zubaida Baba Ibrahim is a journalist and creative writer from Adamawa, Nigeria. With expertise in solutions journalism, she has written reports investigating responses to humanitarian crises and developmental issues across Nigeria. Additionally, Zubaida has trained journalism students and early career journalists on the fundamentals of solutions journalism and evidence-based reporting. She holds a degree in Mass Communications from Baze University Abuja and has over 5 years of experience in radio and online media.

Alfred Ajayi has been a broadcast journalist since 2007 with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, popularly known as Radio Nigeria and revered as the flagship of radio broadcasting in Nigeria. For fifteen years, he has made his marks in journalism practice winning several commendations, recommendations and awards, latest being the 2022 NUJ Ethical Journalism in Anambra (one of the states in Nigeria). Alfred has reported extensively on areas of his interest namely: health, agriculture, climate change, gender and education. He has won bursaries and grants from organizations such as the BBC Media Action, Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, (PTCIJ), International Centre for Investigative Reporting,(ICIR) as well as Human and Environmental Development Agenda, (HEDA) among others, which had helped to do consequential reporting. He has also participated in many local and international trainings and fellowships by some of the aforementioned organizations and the current one by the Liberalist Centre, a libertarian think tank and educational centre that promotes pro-freedom ideas for human flourishing. Alfred, currently a Controller News with Radio Nigeria, is an investigative journalist, thoroughbred professional with influence amidst his professional colleagues. He is a dynamic professional, (a reporter, editor, presenter and trainer). He is not only passionate about innovations in the media space, but also enthusiastic about imparting knowledge of such innovations in others. He firmly believes that journalism must work for the common good of the society. He is endlessly open to knowledge with unquestionable quest to get better by the day. He is unrepentant in building a prosperous and enviable journalistic career.

Esther Nakkazi is a health and science reporter, a media trainer and the founder of the Health Journalists Network in Uganda. Nakkazi trains and mentors journalists in science reporting. She also contributes to various media outlets around the globe.

Mpindi Abaas is the CEO and Co-founder of the Media Challenge Initiative, a youth-driven non-profit building the next generation of journalists in Uganda. He believes that good journalism can make the world a better place through the stories journalists tell and that is why he is a passionate advocate of solutions jouranalism. His story has been published in the Huffington post and CNN African Voices and highlighted by President Barack Obama in his #Mandela 100 lecture in South Africa. Mpindi is a 2018 Obama Leader, a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur and a Young Emerging Leaders Program Fellow. He was also selected by the Government of Uganda to be on the National Taskforce for the adoption of 4th Industrial Revolution.

Adaobi Ezeokoli is a journalist, editor, photographer and public health advocate. She provided editorial oversight for the Nigeria Health Watch platform in her last role as the Editor in Chief at Nigeria Health Watch, a health communications and advocacy organisation based in Nigeria's capital. She also provided communications expertise and support for various public health research consultancies, reports and publications as Director of Communications at EpiAFRIC, a public health consulting firm in Abuja.

Over twenty five (25) years of experience in health reporting, production, training and mentoring. Hands-on experience in production, particularly radio interviews, training and mentoring journalists to tell credible, balanced and solution-based stories. Have mentored many award winning journalists on preparing solution based stories which have become trendy. I have a good understanding of community radio stations in the country which communicate to their audiences in the language they understand. Have developed a passion for Solution Journalism, been trained on the same and train journalists to do solution stories. I train and mentor budding journalists for different organizations.

Swati Sanyal Tarafdar is an independent journalist from India with bylines in international publications including The Guardian, Teen Vogue, Ozy and the BMJ. She covers social and climate justice and teaches journalism to college students. She has worked as an instructional designer for global tech companies and as an adult educationist, apart from being a journalist for a little over a decade now. She’s currently working on a series of multimedia stories to be published on YouTube to engage a younger audience while also orienting local journalists in the principles of solutions journalism.

With an academic background in the humanities and social sciences, Praveeni is passionate about creating positive social change through an initiative she co-founded, Cambiumh, to facilitate a sustainable world through communications and community building. An SJN 2022 LEDE Fellow, Praveeni is creating The H: Humanness Podcast and a training program supporting Sri Lankan youth to report local solutions stories — all in all inspiring, envisioning and enacting solutions to build a positive future.

Sanne Breimer works as a media consultant, journalism trainer, coach and writer. She is currently based in Bali, Indonesia, and works remotely. Before she came to Southeast Asia she worked for 13 years in Dutch Public Broadcasting, mostly in managerial positions (editor-in-chief, program manager and head of digital). Sanne founded Inclusive Journalism with a focus on the topics of equity, decoloniality and mental well-being. She creates courses for journalists on how to use Instagram (for members of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union) and on mental well-being (soon to be released). She coordinates journalism training for Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Priti Salian has worked as an independent print and online journalist for 15 years and has reported from India, Germany and Uganda on global health, human rights, development, culture, and more specifically covered issues of disability, gender, education, healthcare and ageing. She was Robert Bosch Foundation’s Media Ambassador to Germany in 2019 and a journalist fellow of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in 2022, where she conducted research on disability inclusion in India's news and newsrooms. Priti has contributed to The Guardian, the BBC, The BMJ and The Lancet. She is a certified Gender Equality Diversity and Inclusion media trainer. 

Pamposh Raina is an independent journalist based in New Delhi. She has written on policy, politics, gender, and children’s rights for international publications, including Foreign Policy Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and Vox. She was a reporter with The New York Times as well as the deputy editor for India Ink, which was NYT’s first-ever county-specific blog. She has also been a special correspondent, South Asia, for AFP.

As a trainer she has held workshops for journalists in South Asia and Southeast Asia on addressing climate crisis misinformation. She has organized and hosted panels on mental health and well-being for journalists in India through the Meta Journalism Project. As a media consultant she led a project that documented the impact of climate change on small farming communities in rural India. She is part of the Google News Initiative’s network of trainers in India. She conducts workshops on fact-checking and verification. During the 2019 Indian parliamentary election, she led a research project commissioned by WhatsApp to analyse the misinformation trends on the messaging app. She also initiated a student-led project at UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center that focused on studying disinformation on social media in the run-up to the 2019 Indian election.

She has a master’s degree in Sociology from The Delhi School of Economics. She was awarded a fellowship to pursue graduate studies in Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. She has received a UNFPA sponsored journalism award for gender reporting in India.

Corinne Podger is a consultant and trainer with a proven track record of supporting newsrooms, NGOs and social impact organizations in more than 60 countries on strategic audience engagement, newsroom product design, multimedia production, mobile journalism, podcasting and online verification and fact-checking; and on global development topics including climate change, COVID-19, media literacy and communicating science. Corinne’s expertise draws on more than 30 years in the media industry as a reporter, editor, lecturer and author. She has taught digital journalism at the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne, and holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge in England.

Joydeep Dasgupta is a multimedia journalist who has won multiple awards in a wide-ranging journalism career that has spanned nearly 20 years. He is currently the managing editor of News Sense, a digital-first initiative focused on solutions journalism and fact check. Joydeep is also a trainer with Google News Initiative India Training Network and FactShala, with a specialty in identifying and responding to misinformation and disinformation.

Portia Ladrido is a journalist and editor from the Philippines. She is Co-Founder of INKLINE, a media platform based in Oxford, UK, that specializes in solutions journalism. Portia is also the lead convener of the solutions journalism community in the Philippines, and she has led solutions journalism sessions and workshops for WAN-IFRA and the Indonesia Association for Media Development for reporters from Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Timor Leste, among others. Previously, she was an editor at CNN Philippines Life, the digital features arm of CNN Philippines. During her time at CNN, she was awarded the Human Rights Journalism Fellowship by the Philippine Human Rights Information Center for her coverage of social issues.

Kavita Chandran is a trainer and news content adviser based in Singapore. As a journalist for more than 25 years, she has worked in newsrooms across the United States and Asia. She started her career in New Delhi as a business reporter and moved on to anchor shows for CNBC Asia. She worked as a breaking news editor with Bloomberg in New York, and then spent 10 years in Reuters’ newsrooms as a trainer and front page editor. Kavita is currently a journalism trainer with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, where she teaches journalists across Asia about climate change, human trafficking, racial injustice, social inclusion and other global issues. She is also a mentor and speaker on solutions journalism as a catalyst for change in the media. Kavita is a published author of a book, a freelance journalist, and an adjunct faculty member in journalism and communications at Murdoch University, Kaplan Institute, and S.P. Jain Global School of Management. She has a master’s degree in journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in New Delhi and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York.

Anupama Chandrasekaran is a print journalist and audio documentary maker creating captivating sound-rich stories on gender, environment, science and economics for Indian and international organizations. Her work has appeared in Newsreel Asia, Deutsche Welle, Radio Canada, Stanford Social Innovation Review and American Geophysical Union. She secretly yearns to revive her original podcast exploring fossils and prehistory. Her journalistic career spans reportage for Reuters in New York City, The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong; and The Mint business daily, The New York Times and Newsreel Asia in India.

Darren Schuettler is a journalism instructor with three decades of experience as a reporter, editor, newsroom leader and trainer for Reuters in Asia, Africa and North America.

His 26-year career at Reuters News Agency included roles as a financial reporter in Canada, Southern Africa deputy bureau chief, Thailand bureau chief and APAC training editor based in Singapore.

As a consultant for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, he specializes in training on climate change themes such as locally-led adaptation, the energy transition and labour rights, and ESG corporate reporting.

He also delivers solutions journalism training for the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) in Asia.

Darren is a board member of the Climate Disaster Project based in Canada, where he studied climate science and policy at Royal Roads University. The CDP is an international teaching newsroom for young journalists to learn trauma-based interviewing and solutions reporting skills to surface the untold stories of climate disaster survivors.

After graduating from Vilnius University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in politics, Justina Ilkeviciute began her journalism career as a scriptwriter and editor of various TV shows. In 2019 she joined Lithuanian National Radio and Television as a business news editor, from 2021 she is based in Brussels as a correspondent for European Union affairs. In 2021 she participated in LEDE Fellowship and launched LRT is Looking for Solutions — the first and only solutions journalism project in Lithuania working across TV, radio and online.

Juliette Gerbais is a Project Assistant at the European Journalism Centre (EJC), a non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands working to support, strengthen and develop journalism in Europe. She works on EJC’s grant programmes, which help Europe-based newsrooms and freelancers become more resilient and financially sustainable. She speaks and writes fluently in English and French.

Amée is a Dutch journalist, photographer and film maker with a background in sociology and international politics. She has worked with the Google News Initiative, the European Commission, VICE, M100, The Brussels Times, Factcheck Flanders and many more. In her free time, Amée likes to write and perform slam poetry.

Anida Sokol is a media researcher and trainer from Mediacentar Sarajevo and the deputy editor of the online magazine focused on journalism Media.ba. Anida Sokol is a media literacy and solutions journalism trainer and has worked as a lecturer on Politics and the Media and Political Communication at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology and Burch University in Sarajevo. She holds training courses on verification of information, hate speech and ethical standards in journalism.

She is the author of various research studies on the media in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Western Balkan region, including on regulation of harmful content online, media consumption habits of young people and media trust, propaganda, disinformation and hate models in the media. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Political Science, Sapienza University Rome.

Zlatina Siderova is Programme Lead Grants at the European Journalism Centre (EJC), a non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands working to support, strengthen and develop journalism in Europe. At the EJC, she is responsible for the programmes in the grants portfolio of the organisation. Zlatina is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and has 15 years of project management experience in the public, private and NGO sectors, Including projects implemented with the financial support of the EU. 

Jeremy Druker is the Executive Director and Editor in Chief, of Transitions, a media development organization that he co-founded in 1999, as well as a professor at New York University’s campus in Prague. He is also CEO and the founder of Press Start, a crowdfunding platform designed specifically to support journalists where the press cannot report freely.

Jessica Phelan is a digital and broadcast journalist currently based in Rome. Originally from the UK, she has reported from France, Germany, Japan and Italy for a range of digital media and radio, including Radio France International, PRI, Monocle and The Local. She first got involved in solutions journalism via an EU-funded project to broaden media coverage of migration, through which she and colleagues led SoJo-focused webinars and workshops for more than 150 journalists across Europe. Her special interests include community engagement and solutions reporting for radio.

Meenal Thakur is a Project Manager at the European Journalism Centre (EJC), where she works on EJC’s grant programs, which help Europe-based newsrooms and freelancers become more resilient and financially sustainable. Her work also involves capacity-building among these journalists through trainings, connecting them to new skills and ideas to foster innovation in their reporting projects. Prior to joining the EJC, Meenal worked on mapping the Press Freedom landscape in Nepal with Free Press Unlimited, an Amsterdam-based non-profit.

Charlotte Horn is a reporter for the Northern German Public Broadcasting, based in Hamburg. She covers breaking news at NDR Info radio. Her work reflects how people are affected by political decisions. Charlotte has gained expertise in solutions stories in the NDR Info podcast “Perspektiven” and at the BBC. A passionate traveler, Charlotte has reported from various countries and regions, including Ghana, Israel, and the South Pacific.

Vera Penêda is the Director of Programmes & Impact at the European Journalism Centre (EJC) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, where she has worked since 2019. She designs and develops projects at the intersection of journalism, innovation and tech. These aim to help Europe-based newsrooms and journalists adapt to new challenges and become more resilient. 

For the past 10+ years, Vera has worked within international NGOs and major news organizations in Europe, Latin America and Asia. She is experienced in helping newsrooms and teams manage change and face operational challenges, such as digital transformation, the creation of new products, integration of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and hiring and training new staff. 

Currently based in the Netherlands, Vera has lived and worked in China, Mexico, Spain and Portugal as a correspondent, reporter and managing editor. She speaks and writes fluently in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Project Manager at EJC. Works on EJC's grant programmes, which assist Europe-based newsrooms and freelancers to become more resilient, go beyond their usual reporting approaches and advance creative reporting approaches and innovative storytelling techniques. Prior to joining the Grants team, Marjan worked on media development projects in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia.

Anastasiia is the award-winning founder and editor-in-chief of the independent Ukrainian media outlet Rubryka. In 2019–2020, with the support of the International Center for Journalists, she became the author of a popular documentary series about environmental problems in Ukraine. Now Rubryka’s team is producing and spreading solution-focused reporting on how Ukrainians are coping with the consequences of war. Anastasiia is a laureate of the “30 to 30” Award of the Georgy Gongadze Prize.

In addition, Anastasiia, who is from Eastern Ukraine, is the publisher and media manager of the leading independent regional media outlet Eastern Variant. Now she is the initiator of the network media platform Recovery Window for coverage, research and advocacy of reconstruction processes in Ukraine.

This year Anastasiia is a Solutions Journalism Network LEDE Fellow.

Mara Bierbach is a journalist based in Bonn. She works for Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, wearing multiple hats including author, editor, and social media manager. She reports on migration to and within Europe and holds a BS in Economics and a MA in North American Studies.

Florence Gault is an independant journalist. She worked during 16 years at RCF radio, a network of 64 stations in France and Belgium. Florence covered COP 21 in 2015: an important moment in her career that made her aware of what was at stake in terms of the climate change. The Covid-19 pandemic and the reflexion around the « post covid world », pushed her to question her role as a journalist. In September 2021, she decided to leave RCF and specialize in ecological issues, by creating a podcast, with the solutions journalism approach. Driven by the desire to transmit, she has been teaching for ten years in a school of journalism.

Lucie Černá works for Transitions where she leads a program promoting Solutions Journalism in Central and Eastern Europe. She is involved in the topic since 2017, currently she is also mentoring journalists in the central European region helping them to bring solutions lens to their reporting practice.

Nicole Ely is a social media manager at Transitions Media. She began her career as a journalist and editor in the San Francisco Bay Area and later in Las Vegas. Five years ago, she relocated to Prague to study at Charles University, where she received a master’s degree in International Security Studies with a focus on disinformation and terrorism.

Delphine is a freelance journalist based in France who has been practising solutions journalism for seven years now. She cofounded "Antidotes", a collective of freelance journalists practising solutions journalism and a media named "Bien Urbains" focusing on urban topics through the lens of solutions journalism.

Barcelona-based Elena Ledda is a Sardinian freelance journalist with a degree in foreign languages. Elena practices solutions journalism from a feminist perspective and collaborates with several newspapers and magazines, writing in Spanish (Castellano and Català), Italian and English. She also teaches engaged (civic) journalism and journalistic ethics from gender, class and ethnicity perspectives at the BCN_NY Master Degree in Journalism (collaboration between Universitat de Barcelona and Columbia University).

Assunta Corbo is a freelance journalist based in Milan. She collaborates with several newspapers and magazines. She founded Constructive Network to spread solutions journalism in Italy. Assunta is a SJN’s 2021 Fellow and she trains journalists in solutions journalism. She founded and is the director of News48, a magazine that collect solutions stories both in italian and english.

Rhiannon Davies is a teaching associate at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where she runs courses for undergraduates and postgraduates studying digital journalism. She also runs a solutions-focused community magazine and is interested in the power of hyperlocal news and engaged journalism practices to create social impact.

I begun as a blogger, in 2006, during my phD in economics, to question the sustainability of our western ways of life. Once my thesis was finished, I decided to work as a freelance journalist, determinate to put ecological issues at the top of the media coverage. I work with big media (Le Monde, France TV, L’Obs, L’Express, Public Senat) and smaller one (La Salamandre, Kaizen, We Demain, Good Magazine, Vert, etc.). I teach in several journalism schools, I train many newsrooms (France TV, Sud-Ouest, Paris Match, Publi Hebdo, etc.) and I coordinated the work around the French charter published in order to upgrade journalistic practices to tackle the ecological emergency (https://chartejournalismeecologie.fr/upgrading-journalistic-practices-to-tackle-the-ecological-emergency-a-charter) I am also an author and spend time in various NGOs dedicated to press freedom. More information : www.demoinsenmieux.com

Esma Kucukalic is a Doctor in the Human Rights, Peace and Sustainability program at University of Valencia (UV); Master in International and European Union Studies and Postgraduate in Journalism with International specialization (UV). She is a Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly Foundation Director and professor of the Official Master’s Degree in International Journalism at the Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC) where she teaches solutions journalism. Her academic research focuses on ethnicity and citizenship in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, and as a journalist on social issues and civil rights.

Boryana Dzhambazova is a freelance journalist based in Sofia, Bulgaria. She reports on a wide range of topics – from economic and political developments, to social affairs and human rights issues. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Economist, and Politico Europe, among others.

Sophie Roland is an independent filmmaker based in Paris. She has worked for more than 20 years for French Télévision, including popular investigative programs such as “Envoyé Spécial” and “Cash Investigation.” She is preparing a solutions-oriented investigative magazine for French TV. Sophie is an SJN’s 2021 LEDE Fellow and she trains French TV journalists in solutions journalism.

Olha Virsta is a communication manager at the Ukrainian Regional Press Development Institute, a partner organization of Transitions. She coordinates a project promoting solutions journalism in Ukraine and trains regional journalists in gender-sensitive reporting. Olha holds a master’s degree in journalism with a study on alternative media at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Lisa Urlbauer is the Journalistic Training Coordinator at the Bonn Institute in Germany. Previously, she was a trainee at a daily newspaper in Bremen, northern Germany. She studied in the Mundus Journalism Master’s Program in Denmark and the Netherlands, where she specialized in politics and communication, and worked as SJN’s European Communities Associate.

Anna is managing editor at Pioneers Post, where she commissions, writes and edits stories on social enterprise and impact investing; she also designs and gives training in solutions/impact journalism on behalf of the British Council and other partners (including in Ethiopia and Sudan, as well as online). Before joining Pioneers Post in 2018, Anna was a freelance contributor at Devex, covering global development news, and worked for many years in charity communications. She has also been trained as a facilitator of participatory video and has experience in running youth media projects.

Hanna Liubakova is a journalist from Belarus and non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council. She works as a journalism trainer and mentor. She started her career at the only independent Belarusian TV channel Belsat where she worked as a correspondent and TV presenter. Hanna has reported from various countries and regions, including Belgium, UK, Poland, France, and Chechnya. She was a recipient of the Václav Havel Journalism Fellowship at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Czechia, as well as a World Press Institute Fellowship in the United States. Hanna received a degree in Art History from The Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland in 2010 and a Master of Art with distinction in International Journalism from Brunel University in London in 2017. She was awarded the Peter Caws Prize for best postgraduate dissertation.

Marine is a freelance journalist based in France and specialized in solutions journalism for 7 years. Besides her articles, she also gives formation to students and training to professionals. With Delphine Tayac, Marine co-founded the Collectif Antidotes and a media called "Bien Urbains", both created to develop and promote solutions journalism. 

Catherine Edwards is an award-winning journalist currently based in Vienna and working as a freelance editor and consultant. She has six years’ experience covering European news and culture from Italy, Germany and Sweden, most recently as Europe Editor for The Local, where she also led a solutions journalism training programme with Jessica Phelan as part of an EU-funded project. Originally from the UK, Catherine has a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford and a Postgraduate Certificate in Journalism Innovation and Leadership from the University of Central Lancashire. Her special interests are community journalism and solutions journalism on migration-related issues and she is a 2022 LEDE Fellow.

Carolina Gil Posse es una profesional del periodismo y la comunicación de Argentina, con más de 25 años de experiencia en medios y en organizaciones de la sociedad civil. Fue conductora, productora periodística, guionista y cronista de diversos programas de radio y televisión, además de corresponsal en Argentina del Servicio Latinoamericano de Radio Nederland Wereldomroep, la emisora internacional de Holanda. Actualmente, es directora asociada de programas y comunicaciones para América Latina de la organización no gubernamental Salud sin Daño (Health Care Without Harm), en donde trabaja desde 2012. Además de coordinar al equipo regional, lidera el desarrollo de actividades y recursos de capacitación para periodistas y comunicadores para fortalecer la cobertura periodística del cambio climático con enfoque de salud.

Es magíster en Periodismo (UdeSA), licenciada en Enseñanza de las Artes Audiovisuales (UNSAM), periodista (TEA) y locutora (ISER). Fue becaria de la Fundación Carolina en España y Colombia. Actualmente, es estudiante del doctorado en Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires e investiga el enfoque de salud en las noticias sobre cambio climático, un tema que le apasiona.

Bárbara Fraser es una periodista independiente radicada en Perú, especializada en temas ambientales, de salud pública e indígenas. Debido a su labor periodística, ha tenido la oportunidad de realizar múltiples viajes para cubrir una diversidad de temas: desde los glaciares de la Cordillera Blanca en los Andes, hasta los derrames de petróleo en comunidades indígenas en la Amazonía; desde un campamento para migrantes en la frontera de México con Guatemala, hasta un parque etnobotánico en una isla al sur de Tierra del Fuego. Como miembro de la Asociación de Periodistas y Comunicadores de Ciencia del Perú y del comité de ambiente de la Federación Mundial de Periodistas de Ciencia, espera tener varias oportunidades de realizar talleres de periodismo de soluciones, acompañamiento y colaboración con otros periodistas en América Latina y más allá.

Leonardo Gómez Ponce es un periodista independiente, especializado en investigación económica, periodismo de datos y fact-checking. Durante los últimos años, su trabajo se ha desarrollado en el campo del periodismo de investigación y en la promoción de mecanismos de transparencia en el uso de los recursos fiscales. Sus reportajes se publican desde hace 16 años en los medios de comunicación nacionales de Ecuador.

Desde 2018, es el coordinador del Observatorio de Gasto Público de la Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrollo. En 2019, fundó el portal de periodismo TierraDeNadie.ec, que concentra sus esfuerzos en la indagación de casos de corrupción en las periferias y zonas fronterizas. En 2022, decidió incursionar en el periodismo de soluciones, buscando una alternativa para combatir la polarización social en su país.

Jonathan Gutiérrez es editor en jefe y cofundador de Historias que Laten, medio digital independiente de periodismo narrativo y de investigación con sede en Caracas (Venezuela), que promueve un periodismo con una mirada más constructiva y humana. Escribe crónicas y reportajes para distintos medios de América Latina y Europa. Ha sido ‘fixer’ de ARD TV (Alemania) y TV3 Catalunya de Barcelona (España). Fue editor cofundador de la Revista Clímax (actual ElEstimulo.com) y jefe de redacción de la Revista Producto, también en Caracas.

Es periodista egresado de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Posee una especialización en Comunicación Política y Estudios de Opinión Pública y una maestría en Ciencia Política (Universidad Simón Bolívar). Es coordinador académico y profesor del Diplomado en Nuevas Narrativas Multimedia — Historias que laten, del CIAP-UCAB. Dirigió la Fundación Latinoamericana de Cine y TV (Fundavisual Latina), institución creada por la cineasta Margot Benacerraf y el escritor Gabriel García Márquez. Formó parte de la primera cohorte de periodistas capacitados en América Latina en periodismo de soluciones por la Fundación Gabo y SJN en 2018.

Daniel is a journalist graduated from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and Master in Communication from the University of Brasilia (UnB), with 20 years of experience in the Amazon. He was Secretary of Communication for the Government of Pará, where, among other activities, he coordinated qualification actions with local journalists and educommunication with communities, such as indigenous people and quilombolas. He was journalism director of O Liberal, one of the largest media groups in the Amazon, directing projects approved by the International Center for Journalists, Youtube, and Meta. Today, he leads an initiatives calls "Instituto Bem da Amazônia" and "Amazônia Vox" to promote Amazonian protagonism, with connection between sources and journalists, as well as a platform that will give visibility to solutions to the challenges faced by the Amazon, and qualify journalists and comuniccators in Amazon.

Hildegard Willer es una periodista alemana freelance, radicada en Lima, Perú. Escribe para varios medios de habla alemana (Welt-Sichten, taz, FAZ, Radio SRF y Dradio, entre otros), especialmente sobre temas ambientales y sociales, minería y agricultura. También es docente de periodismo en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

Laura Quiñones cuenta con más de 12 años de experiencia en radio, televisión y medios digitales en Colombia, Estados Unidos y Australia. Graduada como periodista con masterado en comunicación digital, se ha destacado como profesional en diversas posiciones como locutora de radio, investigadora, productora de televisión, experta en redes sociales y productora multimedia. En 2014, obtuvo un premio Emmy como productora del mejor noticiero del año en Nueva York.

A lo largo de su carrera, e incluso desde su misma tesis de pregrado, Laura siempre ha intentado concentrarse en soluciones, inspirada por problemáticas como el conflicto armado de su país — Colombia — , la desigualdad de género y el cambio climático. Actualmente, Laura trabaja en la división de noticias de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York como productora de contenido y especialista en acción climática.

Durante diez años de recorrido entre notas, investigaciones y amor a la verdad, Adriana González ha informado para cadenas dentro y fuera de El Salvador, en la prensa escrita, radio, televisión y formatos multimedia. “El periodismo es un privilegio”, dice una de las ganadoras de la segunda edición de becas en periodismo de soluciones de la Fundación Gabriel García Márquez con el trabajo La revolución contra el hambre.

Conduce el informativo Teleprensa, en donde también investiga y reporta. Además, es conductora de la revista informativa Al Cierre de radio Punto 105 y corresponsal para SIR — Radios y Medios Virtuales de América y Europa. Actualmente, desarrolla una plataforma de periodismo de soluciones basado en derechos humanos y Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible para televisión y medios electrónicos, y un laboratorio de periodismo de soluciones para la radio comunitaria Victoria, dirigido a reporteros voluntarios.

Journalist with extensive experience in Central America, notably in La Prensa (Nicaragua) and La Nación (Costa Rica). Passionate about good journalism and the responsibility of discovering and telling the truth to audiences. Also interested in telling real stories in different ways, hopefully innovating ways to bring information to the public.

Camille Padilla Dalmau vive en las montañas de Boriké — el nombre originario de Puerto Rico — . Es periodista, productora audiovisual y cofundadora de 9 Millones, una red que crea contenido educativo e historias para una sociedad más saludable, próspera, y alegre. Luego de haber creado esta plataforma en abril de 2020 para enfocarse en historias de soluciones durante la pandemia, Camille recibió una beca de SJN para cubrir las elecciones. A partir de lo aprendido en este curso de capacitación para entrenadores en periodismo de soluciones, Camille realizará capacitaciones para estudiantes universitarios, así como para sus colaboradores de 9 Millones.

Drovetto es periodista, editor, docente y consultor. Actualmente lidera la sección Comunidad en La Nación (Argentina y es mentor y tallerista de la Fundación GABO (Colombia). 

Es uno de los principales referentes del periodismo de soluciones en América Latina y dictó talleres y mentorías sobre este enfoque para la Fundación Gabo y Solutions Journalism Network.

Fue parte del equipo fundador de RED/ACCIÓN (Argentina), medio nativo digital argentino especializado en periodismo de soluciones. Como editor general, lideró durante cuatro años la ideación, producción, publicación y distribución de contenidos en todo su ecosistema de productos: sitio web, newsletters, redes sociales, Spotify y YouTube. 

Antes, trabajó 15 años en Clarín (Argentina) y La Nación. Durante 10 años, fue docente en educación superior en el instituto de periodismo ETER (Argentina).

Fue distinguido en los Premios Internacionales de Periodismo Rey de España (2015 y 2007), WAN-IFRA (2020), SIP (2020), ADEPA (2017, 2019 y 2022) y ONA (2023).

Mariela Castañón es periodista independiente, comunicadora social y docente universitaria. Tiene 13 años de experiencia periodística y está especializada en temas de niñez y adolescencia, género y seguridad. Ha sido becaria del International Center for Journalists, de Periodismo Situado y Cosecha Roja, y del Programa Edward R. Murrow de la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Guatemala, entre otros. Ha obtenido 4 reconocimientos en Guatemala por su labor periodística y una nominación internacional en el Fetisov Journalism Award con sede en Suiza. En 2021, fundó el medio digital nativo Nuestras Historias.

Mónica is an award-winning photojournalist with 15 years of experience developing photographic projects in editorial, portraiture, wildlife, food and architecture. In addition, she has experience in writing and reporting and a master’s degree in audiovisual and multimedia production. Mónica is the co-founder of El Colectivo 506, a media organization that empowers, supports and connects voices throughout Costa Rica, especially in rural areas, through solutions journalism.

Paula is a science and environmental journalist from Chile. She has worked as a science journalist at the international marine conservation organization Oceana, and also at the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB), a research center focused on biodiversity sciences.

Her experience includes publishing for Chilean media such as Ladera Sur, and international media such as El País. She has also worked in book publishing and other projects.

Paula has also participated in international events and training programs, including a grant from the prestigious science journal Nature (Springer Nature) to attend the World Conference of Science Journalists in Medellin, Colombia (2023); the Kiplinger Fellowship, organized by Ohio University (2022); a scholarship to participate in the World Conference of Science Journalists, organized by the World Federation of Science Journalists in Switzerland (2019); and the Environmental Reporting Workshop of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism of the Michigan State University (2018).

Cristhian Barragán es un periodista de datos y emprendedor colombiano. Por más de una década, ha capacitado a periodistas locales y comunitarios de gran parte de Latinoamérica en periodismo digital y emprendimiento. Sus temas de interés son los datos abiertos, el acceso a la información pública y la corrupción, enfocados al periodismo local.

Cristhian es Alumni Fellow del ICFJ 2018, asociado de Consejo de Redacción y miembro del Border Hub. Actualmente, es director general de WebNoticias.co, una franquicia de medios digitales locales e hiperlocales, y director de la iniciativa dateame.co, un directorio de medios digitales informativos de Iberoamérica.

Bekah Stolhandske McNeel is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she has been a reporter for ten years. Working with local, state, and national outlets, Bekah has produced solutions stories in print, audio, and digital formats. She has applied the solutions framework to complex subjects, like education policy, and heavily politicized topics, like immigration. Having worked with faith-based, specialized, and hyperlocal newsrooms, Bekah brings specific insights into how to align solutions reporting to outlets with small staffs and unique missions. 

Deborah D. Douglas is director of the newly created Midwest Solutions Journalism Hub at Northwestern University and a senior lecturer. She is a founding co-editor in chief of The Emancipator, a digital platform that reimagines abolitionist newspapers for a new day. She previously served as the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor at DePauw University, senior leader with The OpEd Project, amplifying underrepresented expert voices, and founding managing editor of MLK50: Justice Through Journalism.

Douglas authored of the “U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the People, Places, and Events That Made the Movement,” the first-ever travel guide to follow the official civil rights trail in the South, and a contributor to “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019.” Among her many recognitions, she received Chicago’s prestigious Studs Terkel Award and the Society of American Travel Writers 2021 Guidebook of the Year.

Douglas’ reporting and opinions have been published widely, including The Guardian, Ms, ProPublica, Time, The Boston Globe, American Prospect, VICE News, The Crisis, USA Today and O, The Oprah Magazine. In 2016, her reporting on Black women and erasure was cited by The New York Times magazine.

Hugo Balta is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago with 30 years of experience in leadership positions for storied networks, including NBC, Telemundo, CBS, ESPN, and ABC. Hugo is the Owner/Publisher of the Latino News Network (LNN), a group of independent local news and information multiple platform digital outlets in New England and the Midwest. He is twice the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) president and a Hall of Fame member. As a recognized change agent, Hugo is credited with redefining Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives from a problem to be solved to an opportunity to be realized. He is an editor with The Chicago Reporter and WBBM News Radio. Hugo will teach a broadcast television journalism class focused on storytelling at Columbia College Chicago.

Carolyn Robinson is the former Director of Broadcast Partnerships for Solutions Journalism Network, leading projects with large TV ownership groups, including Nexstar, Gray, Scripps, Univision, Graham and many others. As a journalist, she’s produced hundreds of live TV newscasts, the weekend medical show and health specials at CNN; in Hong Kong, she reported and produced daily live shows at CNN’s affiliate station; in East Timor, she ran the local TV station for the United Nations; in Doha and DC, she produced global talk shows and documentary features for Al Jazeera English. She’s trained a couple thousand journalists in 25+ countries, led a few dozen international media projects, and received multiple journalism awards and fellowships for her work.

Matt Simmons is a journalist based in the Indigenous territories of the Wet’suwet’en peoples in northwest British Columbia, Canada. He is a staff reporter with The Narwhal, a nonprofit online magazine that covers stories about the natural world, with a focus on the intersections between the environment, resource extraction and Indigenous rights. Matt’s reporting often takes him to remote locations where communities are on the front lines of environmental racism, climate impacts and biodiversity loss. He is committed to the practices of decolonizing journalism and complicating the narrative.

Chris is the economics and politics editor for YES! Magazine He has spent 25 years in journalism writing news and commentary on government, politics, business, technology, science, the environment, and Native American issues. Originally from Maryland, he studied film and broadcasting at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and creative writing at Emerson College, served in the Peace Corps in Hungary, and also spent some time working in the bowels of a giant high-tech company near Seattle.

Ethan Brown is a writer, commentator, entrepreneur, and the Founder and Host of The Sweaty Penguin, an award-winning comedy climate program presented by PBS/WNET's national climate initiative "Peril and Promise" aimed at making climate change less overwhelming, less politicized, and more fun. The Sweaty Penguin has released nearly 200 episodes, interviewed world-renowned professors from 15 countries and 6 continents, and was recognized at the Webby Awards and Signal Awards in 2022. Brown is also a Writer and Commentator for Young Voices, and his writing has been featured in Newsweek, The Hill, and Orange County Register. He earned a dual degree in Environmental Analysis & Policy and Film & Television from Boston University.

Chris Bowling is a reporter in Omaha, Nebraska. He’s covered a variety of issues including criminal justice, housing and child welfare but got involved with Solutions Journalism Network through its 2023 Climate Beacon Newsroom Initiative. Chris’ main contribution to the project came through an investigation into Omaha’s failure in climate action, and how other cities work could help provide successful roadmaps.

Nora Hertel is the founder of The Optimist, a solution-focused, digital news startup serving small cities and rural communities in Minnesota. Through The Optimist, Nora provides training to student and community journalists. She coordinates The Optimist's environment, business and social issues coverage and a community dialogue series. Before becoming a news entrepreneur, Nora worked as an investigative reporter for the St. Cloud Times in Minnesota, the Wausau Daily Herald in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, the AP and several others. Since 2021, she's been awarded fellowships by the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, the Initiative Foundation in central Minnesota and the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative. 

Brittany Schock is the Engagement & Solutions Editor at Richland Source in Mansfield, Ohio. She has over a decade of journalism experience, and has been a practitioner of solutions journalism since 2016. Her award-winning work has been nationally recognized by the Solutions Journalism Network, LION Publishers and the Knight Foundation, and she's been invited to represent the Source in conversations about solutions journalism all over the world. Brittany has also been instrumental in leveraging solutions journalism as a revenue stream for her newsroom. She is a native of Dayton, Ohio and a graduate of The Ohio State University. She also has many houseplants and a cat named Jack.

Emilie Stigliani a journalist and editor who loves working with reporters to shape stories that surprise, entertain and inform. Prior to joining The Sacramento Bee, she spent nine years working at the Burlington Free Press in Vermont. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. She also enjoys rock climbing, travel and time with family and friends.

Nathaly Salas Guaithero is a well-known Venezuelan journalist that has been working with VOA since October 2018. For 30 years, she has accumulated a great experience reporting, and hosting shows for radio and TV as well. In her country, she used to be a TV and radio reporter specializing in politics and economic topics. In United States, she studied nutrition, so she specialized in health and community related topics. Currently, Nathaly is the Spanish Planning Editor and host of Vision 360, the newest Spanish Division's weekly show. 

Michelle Faust Raghavan (they/them) is a former manager with SJN and has trained solutions journalism trainers in Latin America and supported solutions journalism in several U.S. newsrooms. Michelle is the founder of Claridad Media, an organization that works with newsrooms to strengthen their relationships with communities, and has worked as a journalist and a journalism coach for well over a decade. Michelle is available to train journalists in English or Spanish and has particular expertise in health, democracy and policy journalism.

Damaso Reyes is the investigative editor of the New York Amsterdam News and the founding editor of the Blacklight investigative unit.

He has been published by: The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, New York magazine, Der Spiegel, and the Irish Times. Previous assignments and projects have taken him to countries including Rwanda, Iraq, Indonesia, Tanzania and throughout the United States and Europe. 

He is a Fulbright specialist and is the recipient of several awards and grants including Arthur F. Burns and Holbrooke Fellowships from the International Center for Journalists; a Knight-Luce Fellowship from the USC Annenberg School of Journalism; an Immigration Reporting Fellowship from the French American Foundation and a grant from the Fund for Investigative journalism.

Kimberley Hartwig lives and works in Saskatoon/Treaty 6. She holds undergraduate degrees in English and French from the University of Saskatchewan and a masters degree in Migration and Intercultural Relations from the University of Oldenburg, Germany. She worked for Journalists for Human Rights in the Solutions Journalism Program and in JHR’s Indigenous Reporters Program. She strongly believes in the power of storytelling and in bringing diverse voices into the fold.

Kim Gamel is managing editor and a solutions journalism advocate at Honolulu Civil Beat. She joined the nonprofit news site in November 2020. Kim came to Hawaii after many years abroad, most recently in Seoul covering the Korean Peninsula for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent with The Associated Press with postings in the Middle East and Europe. A native of Boise, Idaho, Kim was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan from 2014-15. It was there that she became passionate about local news as a way to engage and inform the community. She encourages reporters to do solutions stories by showing how they maximize impact, empower people and hold those in power accountable by showing how things can be done better.

Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin is a Professor of Journalism at Columbia College Chicago, where she was awarded the 2022 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Teaching Activism Award. A member of the 2019 and 2022 Solutions Journalism Educators Academies, Sharon has taught Solutions Journalism at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and has trained faculty at other universities to teach Solutions Journalism. She has also presented on Solutions Journalism at conferences for high school students and their media advisors, and is completing a research paper on how Solutions Journalism is being adopted by branded content. Sharon is currently adapting the Solutions Journalism lens for a college-wide course she is teaching.

Sarah Ladik is a settler and former print journalist from north of Montreal on Omàmìwininìwag, Anishinabewaki, and St. Lawrence Iroquoian territory, with experience in community news across what is now called Canada. She is currently an uninvited visitor in Kwakwaka'wakw territory. Sarah has worked for Journalists for Human Rights in a number of capacities since 2019, and is currently a senior trainer and associate manager with the Solutions Journalism Program. She believes stories can and do change the world, and is always looking for ways to be part of making that happen.. 

Tulsi Kamath leads digital news coverage for NewsNation in her role as Managing Editor. Along with overseeing daily digital news coverage, she also works with digital reporters to take a unique, unbiased approach to covering the news of the day and leads the network’s solutions journalism initiative, aimed at elevating solutions to some of the nation’s most pressing issues. Kamath is an award-winning journalist who has spent her career in TV, print, and digital-only news outlets around the country.

Kayla Benjamin covers climate change & environmental justice for the Washington Informer through the Report for America program. She graduated from American University in December 2021 having studied journalism and political science. In addition to environmental justice, climate change solutions, and public policy, Kayla is passionate about thrift shopping and spicy food.