The journalism schools at four of the nation’s leading universities — Stony Brook University, the University of Georgia, Northwestern University and Arizona State University — announce that they will become inaugural solutions journalism hubs, charged with ensuring that journalism focused on responses to problems is integrated into the teaching, research…

By Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin On the last day of every course, I ask my students what worked for them and what didn’t. This is separate from college evaluations of teaching, which focus on the course and the instructor. …

Enlace Latino NC and Southerly are producing solutions-oriented stories, resources and events for rural Spanish-speaking communities By Lyndsey Gilpin and Paola Jaramillo A few months before the pandemic began, the two of us met for the first time at a Panera Bread cafe in Raleigh, N.C., to discuss how our…

24 standout solutions stories from climate to COVID and beyond — Each year, choosing the best solutions journalism gets more difficult: Journalists keep creating more, and it keeps getting better. That’s a good problem to have for an organization that thinks solutions journalism should be an integral part of the news landscape, but it makes it hard to come up with…

By covering a huge problem through a solutions lens, The 19th spurred impact we couldn’t predict — By Chabeli Carrazana In two pandemic years, we have come to understand in quite a visceral way how broken child care is in our country. …

Supporting newsrooms in producing powerful solutions-driven health stories — By Ashley Hopkinson As the world grappled with the widespread impact of coronavirus, health journalists responded with an effective and familiar template, meeting the urgency of the moment with stories that informed readers about the ‘who, what, when, where, and why,’ synthesized the crisis as it unfolded and investigated system…

Over five days, trainers will undergo intensive sessions in best practices around teaching solutions journalism — The Solutions Journalism Train-the-Trainers program at the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) provides training and support for individuals and institutions teaching the practice of solutions journalism, in order to assure rigorous, universal standards. Over five days, trainers will undergo intensive sessions in best practices around teaching solutions journalism, including how to…

Solutions journalism on the labor beat means covering how workers creatively address economic trouble — by Jaisal Noor After spending several grueling months covering the devastation the COVID-19 pandemic had wrought across the United States for The Real News Network, I jumped at the opportunity to focus on solutions. Much of my reporting had focused on COVID-19’s impact on frontline workers, who are disproportionately people of color and…

In Colorado, a solutions-focused approach speaks truth to power in unique ways — by Angela K. Evans When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Boulder County, Colorado, city and county officials, housing advocates and journalists like us at Boulder Weekly immediately began asking questions about how quickly the virus could spread among the local homeless population and what, if anything, could be done about it.