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Responses to problems are newsworthy

The Solutions Journalism Network is leading a global shift in journalism focused on advancing rigorous reporting about how people are trying to solve problems and what we can learn from their successes and failures.

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What Is Solutions Journalism?

Solutions journalism is rigorous and compelling reporting about responses to social problems, which includes these key elements:

Response

Focuses on a response to a social problem — and on how that response has worked, or why it hasn’t

Insight

Shows what can be learned from a response and why it matters to a newsroom’s audience

Evidence

Provides data or qualitative results that indicate effectiveness (or a lack thereof)

Limitations

Places responses in context; doesn’t shy away from revealing shortcomings

Founded in 2013 by the award-winning journalists David Bornstein, Tina Rosenberg and Courtney Martin, the Solutions Journalism Network includes:

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Discover how people are responding to the world’s problems

The Solutions Story Tracker® is the definitive database of solutions journalism: 16,600 stories produced by 9,400 journalists and 2,100 news outlets from 96 countries. The stories cover responses in 196 countries, in 16 languages. This resource is made possible because of a growing movement of journalists who use solutions journalism to illuminate both problems and evidence-based responses to them.

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The Solutions Journalism Network offers newsletters for journalists, educators and anyone else interested in how people are responding to problems.

Transforming journalism and communities

The global network is using solutions journalism to strengthen communities, advance equity, build trust and civic engagement, depolarize public discourse and gain new sources of revenue.

Press and Media Inquiries

For press and media inquiries, please contact our chief innovation officer, Ambika Samarthya-Howard.