The criteria for what counts as solutions journalism have been refined over the years, and now set a high bar for the kinds of stories that count, including that they must show how the response to a social problem works in detail, explain the quality of the evidence that it works, and show the response’s limitations.
“Fixes” writers Tina Rosenberg and David Borenstein co-founded SJN to advance that mission in newsrooms around the world, with a nonprofit that gives grants, and provides training to encourage rigorously reported journalism on solutions.
#Solution story tracker series
That collection, “First Steps Toward #DefundThePolice,” is just one of the ways SJN is increasing its commitment to elevating a brand of journalism sorely needed at a time when policing, incarceration, and other aspects of our criminal justice system have sparked so much angst and anger.įounded in 2013, SJN grew out of The New York Times’ “Fixes” column, a long-running series on “solutions to social problems and why they work.” These and other stories were the focus of a collection I recently curated for Solutions Journalism Network (SJN), as the Network’s new criminal justice specialist.
A 2016 Chicago Reporter story on data-driven tracking of police misconduct. A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article last year on the work of violence interrupters. 
A Kaiser Health News report last year on the CAHOOTS mental-health-crisis response team in Eugene, Or., which beat the rush on such stories that we’ve seen since this year’s protests began. Click here to get your weekly dose of better news.If the defund-police debate struck some people as a new idea, then they haven’t been paying attention to the reporting done by journalists for many years about police accountability and successful programs using other civilian professionals to replace police in some of the tasks cops traditionally shoulder. Want a solutions story delivered to your inbox each week? You're guaranteed to learn something new about how communities are responding to environmental challenges. Finally, we learn how hog farms in the US are helping Duke University reach its goal of zero emissions, and how University of Notre Dame is using their food scraps to power local homes.įind more stories like these in the Solutions Journalism Network's Story Tracker. Alappuzha, a city in India, responded to the existential threat trash posed to its tourist industry by becoming the cleanest city in India, in part through the use of community recycling and regional biogas generators. One project, in Rwanda uses biogas created from the school's bathrooms to provide energy for cooking students' food, reducing the school's energy bill by two-thirds. This collection contains solutions stories about how communities around the world are currently utilizing biogas to not only provide for their energy needs but also improve their local economies. Solutions journalism is news about how communities and organizations are responding to social and environmental problems.
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