A Better Way to Cover Civic Life MOOC

Learn how to reduce polarization and build trust with "A Better Way to Cover Civic Life: Building Trust Through Listening and Solutions Reporting." The massive open online course (MOOC) features journalist and Complicating the Narratives (CTN) pioneer Amanda Ripley, and former CTN fellows Alexis Allison and Chris Green. It distills the skills taught in the Solutions Journalism Network's nine-month Advancing Democracy Fellowship and was created with Trusting News, Hearken and the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.

Over a series of free, self-paced modules, you’ll learn an effective and innovative alternative to the traditional horse-race approach to election reporting, which will help you better serve your communities and strengthen democracy. This course is for anyone who is dissatisfied with traditional coverage of politics, elections and democracy and wants tools and strategies to increase trust and engagement, reduce polarization and employ solutions journalism to help communities address problems and hold politicians to account.