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WORKS TO DEFINE, LEGITIMIZE AND SPREAD THE PRACTICE OF "SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM" - RIGOROUS, UNBIASED REPORTING ABOUT CREDIBLE RESPONSES TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS. THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS TO ESTABLISH SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM AS A CORE FUNCTION IN JOURNALISM, CONFORMING TO THE PROFESSION'S HIGHEST STANDARDS OF INDEPENDENCE AND ACCURACY. IN KEEPING WITH JOURNALISM'S HISTORIC RESPONSIBILITY TO SPOTLIGHT AND CONTEXTUALIZE SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITY IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM WILL CIRCULATE RELIABLE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW SOCIETY IS CONFRONTING AND ADAPTING TO MAJOR SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES. false false 5729847 1919285 7084 Practice Change (formerly known as "Education"Curriculum") The Organization leverages its curriculum to catalyze and sustain the practice of solutions journalism in news organizations, journalism schools and with individual journalists. The Organization cultivates relationships with individual outlets or with groups of outlets, often resulting in high-impact solutions-focused reporting projects. These relationships typically begin with a workshop introducing newsroom staff to the solutions approach. The Organization also provides research and editorial consulting support to reporters, producers, and editors. In some cases, the Organization offers modest financial support for reporter time and travel, audience engagement activities or other high-value activities. In certain special relationships -- cases that promise to generate great visibility, impact, and learning -- the Organization invests in longer-term, higher-impact newsroom projects. The Organization complements its work with news organizations by mechanisms that seek to advance the adoption of the solutions approach by individual journalists and in journalism schools, including webinars, communities of practice, train the trainers and online resources. Since its founding, the Organization has trained over 500 newsrooms and 20,000 journalists in the practice of solutions journalism, and has tracked and vetted more than 10,000 solutions stories from around the world. 944761 0 87713 Knowledge Dissemination The Organization expands and manages the Solutions Story Tracker, a curated database of stories that have been reviewed, evaluated, and tagged by a team of Solutions Specialists. Searchable by issue, location, author, newsroom and strategic insights, this database grew in 2020 to include 10,831 stories by 6,092 journalists about responses to problems in 176 countries. The Organization also supports faculty in developing and sharing teaching materials based on solutions journalism stories in a range of disciplines. 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