Creating Solutions-Focused Voter Guides: A Resource for Local Newsrooms

Do you want to provide nonpartisan election coverage that your community actually needs, wants and will use?

"Creating Solutions-Focused Voting Guides" helps local 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 local community, providing evidence-based policy analysis and empowering student voters with actionable information.

This guide draws on insights and trainings from the Advancing Democracy initiative, and its collaborators, Solutions Journalism Network, Hearken and Trusting News.