The Evidence of Zibra's Unite and the Crypto Currency Funter Programs?

3min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Solutions journalism teaches journalists how to do different kind of work. When we started the first newsroom we worked with was the seattle times. We help them understand what solutions journalism is and isn't, why you should use it when appropriate. And now we have local organizations in different countries that are doing solutions to journalism training throughout latin america, in ugonda, cena, n nigeria, parts of the middle east, parts of europe,. all through eastern and central europe.

What is the goal of our digital information environment? Is it simply to inform us, or also to empower us to act?

The Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) understands that simply reporting on social problems rarely leads to change. What they’ve discovered is that rigorously reporting on responses to social problems is more likely to give activists and concerned citizens the hope and information they need to take effective action. For this reason, SJN trains journalists to report on “solutions angles.” More broadly, the organization seeks to rebalance the news, so that people are exposed to stories that help them understand the challenges we face as well as potential ways to respond.

In this episode, Tina Rosenberg, co-founder of SJN, and Hélène Biandudi Hofer, former manager of SJN’s Complicating the Narratives initiative, walk us through the origin of solutions journalism, how to practice it, and what impact it has had. Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin reflect on how humane technology, much like solutions journalism, should also be designed to create an empowering relationship with reality — enabling us to shift from learned helplessness to what we might call learned hopefulness.