As a freelancer, I share some ideas from my colleagues in the course in which they mention that finding people able to collaborate and be open to work with Solutions Journalism is the first important step.
Once you have some support, it's essential to teach the base in the newsrooms in order also to show the windows of opportunities that could open working with Solutions Journalism and to spread the word about it. As a freelancer, I don't live these realities but these are the steps I would follow if I build my own newsrooms in the future.
Last but not least, to engage the community. Open the newsroom to stories that maybe you cannot always reach with the reporters working in the newsroom. Make the community participate in the whole process and create a healthier relationship with them. Then, work as a gatekeeper to filter those stories and work with the ones that give opportunities to work further with Solutions Journalism. It's about creating a kind of circular cycle in which people also participates in the process of the creation of news or a story. For a freelancer, I think, this point could be even better. It helps to reach more stories, to engage more people in your media and create a collaborative system which helps to emphasize the use of Solutions Journalism.
In my opinion, Solutions Journalism just not open an opportunity to build other kinds of stories, but to strengthen the relationship between media and citizenship and to make journalism more democratic and open to their communities which, in the end, are the ones who we really should be caring about when we create a story. It's about more responsible journalism from a social point of view, which means informing correctly and being close to the stories and the people whose faces are in those stories.