Creating Solutions-Focused Voter Guides

Do you want to provide nonpartisan election coverage that students actually need, want and will use?

"Creating Solutions-Focused Voting Guides" helps student newsrooms rethink election coverage through a solutions lens. Traditional election reporting often centers the horse-race (polls and pundits) and frames political parties as winners and losers. Solutions-focused voter guides shift attention to issues that matter to your campus and local community, providing evidence-based policy analysis and empowering student voters with actionable information.

Created by the Solutions Journalism Network and Students Learn Students Vote Coalition, this guide will help your newsroom build your own plan, suited to your timeline, capacity and resources. This approach is particularly effective for student newsrooms seeking to build trust with their peers, engage student audiences and demonstrate journalism's role in strengthening democracy where students live and learn.