Reporting Beyond the Problem

Karen McIntyre Hopkinson is a Fulbright Scholar and an associate professor of multimedia journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Nicole Smith Dahmen is an associate professor at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

List of Tables – List of Figures – Acknowledgments – Sir Martyn Lewis: Foreword – Karen McIntyre Hopkinson/Nicole Smith Dahmen: Introduction: The Case for Productive and Socially Responsible Reporting – Jack Rosenberry: Civic Journalism: Current Journalism Innovations Can Trace Their Ancestry to Civic Journalism – Peter Bro/Cathrine Gyldensted: Constructive Journalism: Portraying the World Accurately through Positive Psychology Reporting – Kathryn Their: Solutions Journalism: Reporting on the Response Is Just as Newsworthy as Reporting on the Problem – John P. Wihbey: Explanatory Journalism: Bringing Greater Interpretation and Depth to Complex Issues – Mark Poepsel: Participatory Journalism: Looking on the Bright Side without Discounting the Dark Side – Andrew DeVigal/Sumita Louis: Engaged Journalism: Shifting Power Dynamics to Increase Public Participation – Steven Youngblood: Peace Journalism: Reporting Nonviolent Resolutions to Conflict – Peter Laufer/John V. Pavlik/Christopher St. Louis: Slow Journalism: Synthesizing Digital Journalism and Slow News – Karen McIntyre Hopkinson/Nicole Smith Dahmen: Moving Forward: Bringing Clarity to Productive and Socially Responsible Reporting – Contributors.

“Reporting Beyond the Problem offers a timely and clear overview of many of the practices and movements that are imagining a better future for journalism— from peace journalism, to solutions journalism, to engaged journalism, and more. This book will be invaluable for educators, and thought provoking for researchers, practitioners, and anyone interested in not only what stories journalists tell but how they are told.”— Andrea Wenzel, Assistant Professor, Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University

“In these perilous and polarized times, with so many citizens distrustful of journalists and increasingly disengaged from the news they report, the future of democratic society may well rest on finding a better way to ‘do journalism.’ This book offers not one or two good ideas but eight, each a distinctive approach to journalism that focuses less on what is going wrong and more on what might be done about it. Some of the concepts will be familiar to readers and others likely will be new, but all highlight a way forward through reporting that embraces the complexity of the challenges we face but refuses to let them define us.”— Jane B. Singer, Professor, School of Arts and Social Sciences,
City, University of London