How Five Newsrooms Tied Solutions Journalism to New Dollars

Five innovative and creative newsrooms — AL.com, Civil Eats, The Dallas Morning News, The Keene Sentinel and WSHU — explored new ways of earning revenue tied to their solutions journalism for a year. They prototyped and tested new solutions journalism-based products, honed their pitches and sought support from community organizations, businesses and their audiences. Here’s a summary of their efforts, and more detailed case studies.