The Power of Solutions Journalism — with Tina Rosenberg and Hélène Biandudi Hofer

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🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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What is the goal of our digital information environment? Is it simply to inform us, or also to empower us to act? The Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) understands that simply reporting on social problems rarely leads to change. What they’ve discovered is that rigorously reporting on responses to social problems is more likely to give activists and concerned citizens the hope and information they need to take effective action. For this reason, SJN trains journalists to report on “solutions angles.” More broadly, the organization seeks to rebalance the news, so that people are exposed to stories that help them understand the challenges we face as well as potential ways to respond. In this episode, Tina Rosenberg, co-founder of SJN, and Hélène Biandudi Hofer, former manager of SJN’s Complicating the Narratives initiative, walk us through the origin of solutions journalism, how to practice it, and what impact it has had. Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin reflect on how humane technology, much like solutions journalism, should also be designed to create an empowering relationship with reality — enabling us to shift from learned helplessness to what we might call learned hopefulness.

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0:00.0	The Center for Humane Technology is hiring for three full-time roles,
0:04.3	a director of mobilization, a digital manager for communications,
0:07.9	and a senior producer for this show you're in divided attention.
0:11.1	We're especially excited about candidates who are aligned with our mission,
0:14.1	and that's why we wanted to share these openings with you, our listeners.
0:17.2	To learn more, please visit humanetech.com slash careers.
0:22.8	And with that, here we go.
0:24.3	What is the goal of our digital information environment?
0:32.2	Is it just to give us accurate information about the world,
0:35.5	or to also empower us to act in the world?
0:39.3	Is it just to give us information about social challenges,
0:42.4	so that we endlessly doom scroll, or to empower us to respond to those challenges?
0:47.4	At the Center for Humane Technology, we believe technology should be designed
0:55.4	to create an empowering relationship with reality, and the problems that we face.
1:00.5	And that should also be the case for journalism and information.
1:10.6	I'm Tristan Harris, and I'm Azar Askin.
1:13.7	And this is your undivided attention.
1:15.9	The podcast from the Center for Humane Technology.
1:18.9	In today in the show, we're going to explore solutions journalism.
1:22.0	The practice of rigorously reporting on how we respond to social problems,
1:26.4	so we're better able to address them.
1:32.2	Here to guide us to that exploration, our Tina Rosenberg and the Lennon B&D Hofer.
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