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What is ‘solutions journalism’ anyway?
What if journalism could go beyond pointing out problems and instead search for and connect people working on making things better? There’s a term for this: solutions journalism. It’s not widely practiced, but The Tyee has been on the forefront of solutions journalism in Canada for over a decade.
“The idea is that reporting on responses to problems can provide larger impact, more insight, increased engagement, and examine issues in closer detail by looking at the other side of stories we rarely see. How are we doing better? It’s a shift in focus and mindset for publications and their employees; a new lens for professionals to look through. It’s not about hero worship or telling heartwarming stories about your neighbourhood bake sale. It’s about compiling anecdotes, facts, interviews, and research to tell stories about positive impact.”
Read more about solutions journalism and how The Tyee does it in this article from the Ryerson Review of Journalism.
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Coastal GasLink rejects alternative route, defends path across Wet’suwet’en unceded territory
(via The Globe and Mail)
Pipeline approval record reveals conflict with Wet’suwet’en years in the making
(via CBC News)
‘Systemic negligence’: Indigenous Services unclear on number of First Nations kids apprehended into care
(via APTN News)
Liberals postponing planned tabling of UNDRIP bill because of blockade crisis, says Mohawk chief
(via CBC News)
Conservatives open door to advancing first non-confidence motion
(via CTV News)
Hard-to-read licence plates still better than ‘Liberal’ ones: Ontario minister
(via HuffPost Canada)
China expels three Wall Street Journal reporters
(via Wall Street Journal)
UK to close door to non-English speakers and unskilled workers
(via The Guardian)
Donald Trump ‘offered Julian Assange a pardon if he denied Russia link to hack’
(via The Guardian)
Twelve Canadians infected with the novel coronavirus have been moved off Japanese cruise ship
(via National Post)
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‘We have let the colonizers define the nation’
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“The very essence of the problem is that Canada is in fact a colonized country. It is something we continually fail to acknowledge. We have never adopted a national energy or industrial strategy. We have just muddled along being hewers of wood and drawers of water, selling off our raw resources. We have let the colonizers define the nation in their image, leaving us in the position where we are ill-equipped to deal with such a momentous issue as climate change.”