Resources

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Thanks to Peggy Holman, David Bornstein, Fran Korten, Sarah van Gelder, Mike Fancher and others for their suggestions.

Examples
- Axiom News
- New York Time’s Fixes Column
- Solutions Journalism Network
- The Intelligent Optimist (formerly ODE Magazine)
- YES! Magazine
- Solutions to the Climate Crisis: Hidden in Plain Sight by Sarah van Gelder

Articles
- A new kind of activist journalism: When finding solutions are part of journalists’ job, too by Jan Schaffer
- Is Journalism Interested in Resolution, Or Only in Conflict? by John J. Pauly
- Good News: Social Ethics and the Press by Clifford G. Christians, John P. Ferre, and P. Mark Fackler
- Why the Future of Journalism Is in the Story of Solutions by Fran Korten
- Why Sharing Stories about Solutions is a Revolutionary Act by Frances Moore Lappe

How-to’s
- Appreciative Inquiry Interviewing – Mike Fancher, 2019, Executive Editor, Seattle Times (retired)
- How to Get Inspiration Into Your Daily Media Diet – Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine co-founder & executive editor
- Solutions storytelling notes from Media That Matters, 2008, by Sarah van Gelder and Stephen Silha
- Preventive Journalism: Its Roots and Its Targets by Edward Hodgkin

Examples & Articles
- Learnings From Civic Engagement by Tim Merry
- What does “engagement” really mean? by Joy Mayer
- Tracing the links between civic engagement and the revival of local journalism by Dan Kennedy
- Journalism Accelerator, search for engagement
- Measuring Community Engagement: A Case Study from Chicago Public Media by Breeze Richardson
- Engaging Audiences: Measuring Interactions, Engagement and Conversation by Jan Schaffer and Erin Polgreen
- Engagement articles at the Poynter Institute
- Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity

How-to’s
- A pitch deck to make the case for engagement to a newsroom by Jackie Hai (Customize it for your newsroom)
- Community Engagement Resources Handbook
- Dialogue-based practices in brief
- Dialog-based practice websites
  - Open Space Technology – http://openspaceworld.org
  - The World Cafe: http://www.theworldcafe.com/
  - Appreciative Inquiry Commons: http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/
  - Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity – www.engagingemergence.com
  - The Change Handbook – http://sites.google.com/site/thechangehandbook/ (A collection of 61 processes for engaging people)
  - More on Open Space Technology: http://peggyholman.com/openspace/
- Gather: The Art and Science of Effective Convening by Noah Rimland Flower & Anna Muoio
- The best ways to build audience and relevance by listening to and engaging your community by Mónica Guzmán
- National Center for Media Engagement
- National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (In particular, check out the resources section)
- Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities by Amy Jo Kim
- Get Out! Running an Online Community Like a Political Campaign by Michelle Ferrier
- Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers by Jane Singer

Examples
How-to’s
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

Journalism That Matters