Intro to Solutions Journalism: Storytelling for Change
🌍 How Do We Tell Stories That Inform and Inspire?
Join Impact.Edition for a hands-on, 1-hour workshop introducing Solutions Journalism — a rigorous, hopeful approach to crafting stories that don’t just investigate problems but highlight how people are responding to them.
Learn how our editorial work centers the lived experiences of real people driving real responses to complex social and climate challenges.
This session is ideal for:
🎙 Journalism students & emerging storytellers
📢 Nonprofit communicators & community advocates
📚 Educators & campus media teams
🎨 Curious creatives who believe in the power of narrative for change
💡 What You’ll Learn:
The core principles of Solutions Journalism and how it differs from traditional reporting
How to identify and evaluate a “response” story
Techniques for centering community voices and lived experiences in your storytelling
How Impact.Edition applies this approach to elevate changemakers and drive civic engagement
Bonus Resources & Opportunities
📋 Access the Solutions Story Checklist
All participants will receive our Solutions Story Checklist — a practical tool to help you evaluate and craft stories that focus on effective responses to social and climate challenges. It includes key questions and tips to ensure your reporting is rigorous, compelling, and solutions-driven.
🌱 Plug into Impact.Edition’s new Climate Lab
Want to go deeper? Learn how to get involved with Impact.Edition’s Climate Lab — a new initiative designed to train and support community members, students, and emerging journalists in producing high-quality climate and social justice stories. You’ll get access to mentorship, workshops, collaborative editing sessions, and opportunities to publish your work.
At Impact.Edition, our mission is to amplify the voices of changemakers and center community-powered solutions that drive lasting, positive change. Through storytelling rooted in lived experience, we build bridges between awareness and action — inspiring more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities.
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