Too often, journalists write about marginalized communities, focusing mainly on their problems. Not Oscar Perry Abello (Next City) and Priti Salian (freelance), who have long written with and for communities. Between them, they’ve produced more than 75 stories exploring what’s working to help people overcome barriers to inclusion, equality and prosperity in the economy, education, medicine and beyond.
Abello and Salian spoke with the Solutions Journalism Network’s 2021 and 2020 LEDE fellows — competitively selected journalism entrepreneurs spreading solutions journalism — about how to report solutions stories for/with communities that have been deprived of power, privilege and resources. Below are Abello and Salian’s five main tips. You can also check out the full one-hour discussion, where they walk through examples in their own reporting.
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