At the Solutions Journalism Network, we spend nearly all our time working closely with journalists and newsrooms to support the practice of solutions reporting. We incorporate all the great feedback they give us along the way — because we learn as much as we teach in this work. In addition, we stop once a year to formally ask how we are doing.
This past year, we sent a survey to 407 newsroom leaders in our growing network, up from 217 in 2019. A little under a quarter responded, about the same percentage as last year. We asked them 19 questions on everything from the level of support for solutions journalism within the newsroom to each newsroom’s vision for how it wants to contribute to the media landscape. Here are some highlights from what we have learned:
