Convener: Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine

• Dave Gordon, Chippewa Valley Post
• Cali, High Country News, C.O.
• Tom Stites, Banyan Project
• Peggy Holman, JTM Co-founder

Questions discussed

• To some extent the the traditional story structure of winner / lose with which we are all familiar came out who joined the the profession post-Watergate.
• Journalistic respect traditionally goes to those who take people down (including in journalism)
• Putting out solutions puts you in a much more vulnerable position

On the solutions side of journalism there are two levels
1. Specific stories
2. Showing a larger picture of a sustainable society.

Is it comparable to peace journalism that identifies all the stakeholders and not frame as a conflict but as something that is debated?

Examples:

• Solutions Journalism Network,
• Axiomnews, http://axiomnews.ca/ – Uses appreciative inquiry as the basis. They charge their clients for covering them as journalists.
• Macrosopic journalism – Where you are part of the story not outside of the story.

Existing journalism -> Takes the status quo as the target, with everything else a disruption. Whereas solutions journalism looks more productively at the future.

Solutions journalism encourages action can you set up partnerships to perform action.