What stands out in consideration over our prior material is how deeply they left me motivated over Solutions Journalism. The benefits I encountered it our earlier materials, paticularly module 3, Solutions Journalism helps complete the circle for journalist by not stopping at identifying and explaining problem. It takes the mystery out of the newsroom.
By nature, Solutions Journalism reporting a solution or failure by explaning what did not work helps rebuild the reader's trust. It offers so much more than the old Doom and Gloom of traditional reporting on social problems.
It seems critical to me to start with explaning these benefits and differences that Solutions Journalism has to offer their publication and most importantly to restore current readers' trust, while attracting former and new readers as the word spreads about this new journalistic system.
These first steps will open the door to launch at least a pilot program Solutions Journalism project or, if management agrees, even assign 2 or 3 experienced reporters to select small slices of larger known social problems to apply Solutions Journalism processes to over these cases. Then I would closely monitor ongoing feedback over the progress of these reporters until their stories are finally finished and published.
Then in my opinion a survey should be conducted with subscribers of the publication to provide the readers' opinion of this new reporting system. Then we the results were positive I would continue these reporters to use Solutions Journalism for 6 months and again do a wider survey with their readership, look at increased cost and revenues, have these reportes write their positive and negative evaluations of using Solutions Journalism. Management and editors would then have enough evidence to decide to permanently include Solutions Journalism in their publication or decide that it did not work for them.