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Discourse Media uses solutions journalism to ‘track the slow burn of change’
May 4, 2016
By: Madalina Ciobanu
Excerpt from journalism.co.uk
Two and a half years ago, Erin Millar had a decade of reporting about education for different news outlets under her belt, but she felt something was missing.
Much like many reporters who write about a specialist subject on a daily or weekly basis, she understood the “systemic issues that were preventing the field from moving forward” and sometimes “felt like a total broken record reporting on the same stories that fit into the news cycle”, she told Journalism.co.uk.
“Every time I tried to pitch to my editors more ambitious projects or work that was more solutions-oriented, I could never get them off the ground.
“At the time there were fewer resources to be spent in Canadian media and this solutions-oriented work didn’t fit at all into the news events-driven cycle.”
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