Reporting on Better Futures

Seven Vancouver secondary school students tracked their doomscrolling and then, to address their worries, collaborated on three interview pieces about people working on related positive change. The students workshopped this series on weekends as an extracurricular project in concert with a professor and master’s student in the University of British Columbia’s department of educational studies and The Tyee’s editor-in-chief. We call these examples of “future-focused journalism,” as they use traditional reporting techniques to help map better paths forward.