If you're interested in journalism that responds to social issues constructively but critically, don't miss our training with Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) on October 11 at 6 PM in Amherst! Online News Association is funding this event. Please invite other reporters and students to join this meetup and RSVP. IT professionals who are interested in media are welcome to attend. So are journalism, IT and/or design students. SJN supports and connects journalists interested in doing solutions journalism, a genre of media work that involves rigorous reporting about how people are responding to problems <http://solutionsjournalism.org/up-for-debate-why-we-need-solutions-journalism/>. Dinner will be provided at the event by ONA. *Description of the training: *The standard training digs into the fundamentals of solutions journalism, including what it is (and what it isn't), how it enhances accountability, and how to do it. The instructor looks at solutions journalism as a form of investigative journalism. Reporters dig into the scope of a problem, see who has already responded to this problem, and analyze the associated results. SJN's core 2-hour curriculum is a training that they've given to thousands of journalists across the country - from local chapters of SPJ and ONA and conferences to over 75 news outlets including the Seattle Times, several NPR affiliates, BBC, and more. *Example of an article:* SJN co-founder Tina Rosenberg's 2001 article on how Brazil effectively eliminated the transmission of HIV/AIDS is a great example of an investigative solutions piece ( http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/28/magazine/look-at-brazil.html). *Note from our presenter:* If there's interest/time, we can dig deeper and make it a workshop format where participants come with story ideas and we work through them so they walk away with a reporting plan. For directions, join the meetup to RSVP <https://www.meetup.com/ONA-Western-New-England/>. ONA Western New England <http://www.meetup.com/ONA-Western-New-England/> is a place where you can meet local writers, editors, innovators, photographers, producers, academics, entrepreneurs and technologists who produce news for and support digital news delivery systems. Online News Association is the world’s largest association of digital journalists. ONA’s mission is to inspire innovation and excellence among journalists to better serve the public. For more information, check out http://www.journalists.org. Best, Kat Friedrich -- Kat Friedrich <http://cbey.yale.edu/our-community/kat-friedrich> News Editor <https://www.linkedin.com/in/katfriedrich> Yale Center for Business and the Environment <http://cbey.yale.edu/> Clean Energy Finance Forum <http://www.cleanenergyfinanceforum.com/> ( Twitter <https://twitter.com/cleanenergyfc>/LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8217191>) Conservation Finance Network <http://www.conservationfinancenetwork.org/> ( Twitter <https://twitter.com/ConsFinance>/LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/5064412>) katherineafriedrich at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20170902/d3527e19/attachment.html