

#Solutions journalism story tracker how to#
In this episode, Tina Rosenberg, co-founder of SJN, and Hélène Biandudi Hofer, former manager of SJN’s Complicating the Narratives initiative, walk us through the origin of solutions journalism, how to practice it, and what impact it has had.

For this reason, SJN trains and encourage journalists to report on “solutions angles,” and more broadly seeks to rebalance the news, so that every day people are exposed to stories that help them understand problems and challenges, and stories that show potential ways to respond. What they’ve discovered is that rigorously reporting on responses to social problems - can more often give activists and concerned citizens the hope and information they need to take effective action. What is the goal of our digital information environment? Is it simply to inform us, or also to empower us to act?Īt the Solutions Journalism Network, the team understands that simply reporting on social problems rarely leads to change.
