NGO’s

The Solutions Journalism Network is based in the USA and  trains journalists in tips and tools for Solutions Journalism. Solutions Journalism reflects Constructive Journalism’s Pillar one and focuses on how people are responding to problems.

Reporters D’Espoir Focuses on the news media landscape in France. The organisation believes that by covering economic, social and environmental challenges as well as the responses implemented to solve them, this journalistic approach can reflect the complexity of the world, and to spread the desire to act.

RSF is now one of the world’s leading NGOs in the defense and promotion of freedom of information. In 2018 RSF’s secretary-general co chaired the release of the “International Declaration on Information and Democracy”. Seventy years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted this document enshrines a “right to information” and recognises that the global information and communication space provides the grounds for establishing democratic guarantees.

The Constructive Journalism Project aims to innovate and strengthen journalism in the UK by developing methods, knowledge and skills for journalists, media organisations and students in order to practice constructive journalism – enabling them to produce engaging and rigorous reporting that presents a fuller picture of the world.

Sparknews organises collaborative editorial operations highlighting initiatives that accelerate the ecological and social transition. Their flagship Impact Journalism Day brings together media outlets from around the world to simultaneously publish solutions-oriented supplements and online sections. With these media alliances, as well as workshops for journalists, and a collaborative online platform aggregating constructive articles (Spark-It), Sparknews encourages and helps news outlets to go beyond a focus on social and environmental problems and to showcase existing solutions as well.

New6s raises awareness of constructive journalism within the French speaking Belgian news media. The organisation advocates for journalists to go beyond the 5 W’s of What, Why Where and When? They support Belgian journalists to ask What do we do now? Each year New6s awards 2 prizes for constructive journalism in Belgium, to a professional journalist and to a journalism student. The team also runs the Constructive Info Week, an annual event which mobilizes news professionals to integrate constructive journalism in their regular practice.

In this section you can read about a number of organisations and individuals around the world who are working hard to change the news culture. If you are interested to learn how we work with journalism schools go here.

We also endorse and work with a range of researchers. Read about how the researchers work with constructive journalism and what we have learned from their research here.