Solution Journalism

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Solution Journalism

• Make a green promise.com

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DISRUPTION AND ADAPTATION

• Journalism is dealing with disruptive upheaval
  caused by transformations in technology,
  economics/markets, demographics and other
  societal shifts.

-Cole Campbell
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DISRUPTION AND ADAPTATION

• Inventing the next form of journalism will
  require journalists to relinquish
• old practices that no longer work,
• old conceptions of self that no longer hold,
• old assumptions that are no longer valid.

-David Ryfe
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DISRUPTION AND ADAPTATION

• Disruptions demand adaptive responses changes
  in routines, reflexes and other professional
  behavior.
• Merely reasserting standards or refining
  techniques is not enough.

-Cole Campbell
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DISRUPTION AND ADAPTATION

• Requires a change of IDENTITY and CULTURE,
• not merely of technique or practice.

-David Ryfe
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DISRUPTION AND ADAPTATION

• Adaptive responses require experimentation
  testing approaches that may or may not work.

-Cole Campbell
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DISRUPTION AND ADAPTATION

• Experiments that work should lead to innovations
  in practice and theory.
• The experiments cant be idiosyncratic they must
  address practical and theoretical questions.

-Cole Campbell
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Solution Journalism

• Reconceiving
• how journalism might be done
• how journalism might better serve communities
• the individuals who pay attention -- the people
  formerly know as the audience

Information by itself doesn't change communities.
-Donica Mensing
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The problem

• In the case of the environment, much of the news
  coverage tends to be conflict-oriented, and most
  often stories characterize the environment as a
  struggle between recognized groups, such as oil
  companies and environmentalists.

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Approaching a solution

• Make a Green Promise is a Web 2.0-inspired
  platform for creating an online space to
  facilitate journalism, social interaction and
  cooperation in community activities related to
  the environment.

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Connecting with readers

• We can connect to the audience/community we need
  to test our interactive journalism experiments
  with if we connect with existing audiences and
  communities already paying attention to the
  content/coverage area.
• attentive publics

-Cole Campbell
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Based on Pledgebank.com
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and PromiseTahoe
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thepoint.com
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What if .

• Journalism concerning the environment were
  solution-oriented rather than conflict-oriented?
• In other words, it is no longer enough for
  journalist to cover a problem. Journalism has
  to help identify options and engage citizens in
  finding solutions.

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The foundation

• We believe that people want to get involved to
  make their communities a better place to live and
  help create a sustainable environment, and that
  journalism has important role to play in creating
  that local actionable information that people
  want.

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Journalism and community

• Reduce emphasis on forms of environmental
  journalism emphasize neutrality, facts,
  authority, official expertise, and so on.
• Rely on the people formerly know as the
  audience to help create, distribute and process
  a communitys information.

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Make a green promise

• What if the swirl and spiral of the discourse of
  everyday life were supplemented by a journalism
  that focuses attention of the possibilities of
  the Common Good?

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In essence

• What if there was a new kind of journalism that
  places the individual and the public at the
  center of the story. What if there were a Web
  site and social networking platform that
  challenged citizens -- "I'll do it, but only if
  you help me."

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Local
Community
Action
Journalism
Solution
Collaboration
Experimental
Information
Environment
Network
Networked
Social
Adaptive