Medill adds director of Midwest Solutions Journalism Hub

Deborah Douglas will lead efforts to provide training in solutions journalism

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Deborah D. Douglas (BSJ89), the co-editor in chief of The Emancipator and an award-winning journalist and educator with deep Chicago roots, has been named director of the new Midwest Solutions Journalism Hub at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University.

Douglas will begin work next month overseeing the Hub, which will provide training programs for newsrooms, educators and students in the craft of solutions journalism. The Hub will also launch a speaker series and a newsletter focused on best practices in solutions journalism, an approach that applies rigorous reporting about responses to systemic problems.

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