When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Nigeria in February 2020, Nigeria Health Watch quickly adapted its coverage to focus on the global crisis. In place of traditional reporting on facts and figures, however, this health advocacy and communications nonprofit used a novel, growing approach known as solutions journalism. Their reporting addressed the effects of the pandemic on Nigerians, and how communities were responding with their own, often innovative solutions.
Vivianne Ihekweazu, managing director of Nigeria Health Watch, recently spoke during an ICFJ Global Health Crisis Reporting Forum webinar about how the organization has used solutions journalism to cover health and the pandemic. She also offered tips for journalists and newsrooms interested in incorporating this approach in their own reporting.
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