What are the ingredients to reporting about solutions? Latest studies by The University of Texas at Austin guide the way
Solutions journalism has been seen as a way to counter the dominance of negative reporting in the news cycle.
Thinking of giving it a go yourself? The University of Texas at Austin's Center for Media Engagement published a report on The Keys to Powerful Solutions Journalism. It looks at the individual components of solutions journalism and how it affects readers - there is also a quick video to get you started.
"When an article contains all five of these components - the problem, solution, implementation, results and insights - people felt like the article was of higher quality compared to articles that just had a problem or solution," says Natalie Jomini Stroud, Associate Professor at the university and co-publisher of the study.
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