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Solutions Journalism With Samantha McCann
Solutions Journalism With Samantha McCann
October 3, 2015
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Associated Press, A New Model For News: Studying the deep structure of young adult news consumption; June 2008
Findings:
Majority said that stories changed the way they think about
the topic
>50% singled out The Seattle Times as a source of new
information about educational approaches
Content was consistently redistributed and/or shared by
professional stakeholder communities
59%
50%
20%
47%
36%
40%
30%
52%
22%
35%
Solutions
story
28%
22%
10%
Nonsolutions
story
0%
I felt inspired
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and/or optimistic more articles
involved in
article **
after reading the from the same working toward
newspaper **
a solution **
article *
* Agree or strongly agree
** Somewhat likely or very likely
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