Solutions Journalism Network

Practice change - see schedule othe organization leverages its curriculum and Network to catalyze and sustain the practice of Solutions Journalism in news organizations, Journalism schools and with individual journalists around the world. The organization cultivates relationships with individual outlets or with groups of outlets, often resulting in high-impact solutions-focused reporting projects. The organization provides trainings, webinars, and research and editorial consulting support to reporters, producers, and editors. In some cases, the organization offers modest financial support for reporter time and travel, audience engagement activities or other high-value activities in the form of subgrants. In certain special relationships -- cases that promise to generate great visibility, impact, and learning -- the organization invests in longer-term, higher-impact newsroom projects. The organization complements its direct service work with news organizations by Network mechanisms that seek to advance the adoption of the Solutions approach by individual journalists, Journalism schools, and newsrooms, including through webinars, online and in-person communities of practice, train the trainers programs, and online resources. Since its founding, sjn has trained over 500 newsrooms and 20,000 journalists in the practice of Solutions Journalism.

Knowledge dissemination - - see schedule othe organization grows and manages the Solutions story tracker, a curated database of Solutions Journalism stories that have been reviewed, evaluated and tagged by a team of Solutions specialists. Searchable by issue, location, author, newsroom and strategic insights, this database grew in 2021 to include more than 13,000 stories by 6,000 journalists about responses to problems in 187 countries. The organization also supports university faculty in developing and sharing teaching materials based on Solutions Journalism stories in a range of disciplines, as well as connecting journalists to these educators and bringing the former to classrooms to share their work. Since the fall of 2020, the organization has hosted 46 sessions for over 1,300 high school, college and graduate students.