There is a quiet political movement taking shape that some call "depolarization". Depolarization involves bringing people together to "bridge" deep political differences and identities, and find "comm...
Samantha McCann
Samantha McCann has worked with the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) since its founding year 2013. As Vice President of Practice Change, she directs SJN's online presence, community strategy, and Solutions Journalism Summit, and supports the growth of solutions journalism efforts around the world.
Previously, she worked in environmental and fiscal policy research at Seattle University. She has published in The Journal of International Affairs, Scholastic, The Guardian, PRI, & others, and authored the text of an award-winning photography book, Columbia University in Pictures. She holds an M.P.A. from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a B.A. in political science from Seattle University.
There is nothing simple about conflict. Yet news coverage of many issues — immigration, the economy, health care — is often broken down into simplistic framings and neat soundbites, and the more e...
Collaborative journalism: A showcase of projects from around the world and lessons you can learn from them. For the past two years, the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University in N...
Solutions journalism - rigorous reporting on how people are responding to social problems - has quickly become a standard practice in hundreds of newsrooms across the United States, with powerful inte...
Solutions journalism - rigorous reporting on how people are responding to problems - is rapidly becoming an essential and widespread part of journalistic practice in the United States and around the w...
With increasing frequency, new independent collaborative journalistic platforms, in addition to the obvious aim of telling particular stories, are focused on helping to change a situation or solve a...
