Some employ comparison, such as a piece about how towns in Kenya were learning from towns in Tanzania how to manage too much garbage. ➄ Examples of solutions are wide and varied and use different story telling techniques. … If you actually had the same problem the hero had, you would have no idea how it was fixed.” Nothing is wrong with those stories, but it is not solutions journalism. They went through hardship and they’re awesome,’” Simmons said. “Hero worship just says, ‘This person is awesome. Included are “magic bullet” stories, activism masquerading as news, and hero stories. There are plenty of imposters claiming to be a form of solutions journalism that aren’t. “To try to oversimplify ultimately can dumb down what are complicated human problems.” “We’ve ended up earning the respect of audience members by respecting them in sharing the nuance of the story,” Grant said. Kevin Grant, co-founder and chief content officer at the news outlet The GroundTruth Project, said his organization has found readers aren’t looking for easy answers. Solutions stories document efforts to solve problems, including the data that can prove or disprove whether something actually worked. How is it happening? Who’s doing it? Who does it help? Who does it not help? Where does it succeed? Where does it fail?” Puff pieces need not apply. “It is rigorous, evidence-based reporting on responses to social problems,” Simmons said. ➁ But solutions journalism is not merely happy news. The network is driven by the fact that news gives an “excessively dismal view of the world,” leaving audiences feeling powerless, anxious, resentful and wanting to tune out. Rather than just highlight society’s problems, stories reported through the lens of solutions journalism show the responses to those problems, said Mikhael Simmonds, mid-Atlantic manager for the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit training organization. ➀ “Solutions journalism” seeks to reframe the way media cover issues. If you'd like to be notified when applications open, fill out our general interest form and sign up for our Above the Fold newsletter.► Video with Interactive Transcript 5 takeaways:
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