Tip of the Week

New York Times journalists Sarah Kliff and Bianca Pallaro recently wrote a fascinating solutions story on U.S. hospitals successfully reducing C-section rates. If the story wasn’t good enough, Kliff also took readers behind the scenes to show how they found and analyzed the data. She lays out how to find a “positive deviant” — a statistical outlier showing success or improvement rather than their opposites — and even a little bit about how gratifying it was to cover a solution. This is a fantastic model for writing about your solutions stories.