Annual Report 2017
If we built it would they come? That was our concern prior to SJN’s inaugural Solutions Summit, which we convened in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch mountains in early November 2017. It was our first attempt to bring members of our emerging tribe together.
Our Impact
in 2017
Curriculum | Newsroom Practice Change | Journalist Practice Change | Knowledge Dissemination
TOPLINE STATS
Newsroom Practice Change
Our partnerships with news organizations around the country—and now, around the world—form the backbone of the network.
TOPLINE STATS
140 newsrooms with broad institutional and editorial support for solutions journalism
6 collaboratives, encompassing 57 print, digital, radio, and broadcast news outlets
44%
of engaged newsrooms regularly produce solutions journalism.
Added our first broadcast partner newsroom
Journalist Practice Change
How do we drive the adoption of solutions journalism among individual journalists?
TOPLINE STATS
1,077
Hub members
7
local communities
44%
increase in Twitter followers, to 11,485
1,314 Facebook group members
14 journalism schools teaching solutions journalism
KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION
A critical mass of solutions journalism, distributed via the Solutions Story Tracker®, and targeted products such as SolutionsU®, drives more productive public discourse and change how citizens engage with social issues.
TOPLINE STATS
2,800
stories
in the Solutions Story Tracker®, our searchable archive of solutions journalism.
56
non-journalism university courses integrating solutions journalism
6
student and faculty workshops, reaching nearly 350 teachers and learners.
40+
presentations at conferences and industry events, including the Obama Foundation Summit, the Google News Lab Summit, and the International Festival of Journalism
Spreading
the Practice
Organizationalcapacity
updates
SJN continued to strive to meet best practices in non-profit administration.
• SJN launched an expansion that will enlarge our staff by 50% in 2018, with the biggest increases in our newsroom and finance/admin teams.
• We contracted with Angela Park, a respected consultant, to help launch an organization-wide initiative on diversity, equity and inclusion.• Honeyguide Media, which was previously fiscally sponsored by SJN, received its tax-exempt status from the IRS and became an independent organization.• SJN was pleased to retain EisnerAmper as its independent auditor in 2017. In addition, SJN continued to retain Kiwi Partners for selected accounting support.
Funding partners
Our People
Team & Members
Volunteer City Coordinators
Michaela Haas
Los Angeles Coordinator
Ruksana Hussain
Los Angeles Coordinator
Alison Krupnick
Puget Sound Coordinator
David Lippoff
Portland Coordinator
Gregory Scruggs
Puget Sound Coordinator
Sandi Villareal
DC Coordinator
Board Members
Board Members
Dominic Rovano
serves in an advisory role to the Finance and Audit Committee of Solutions Journalism Network. He is a member of the American Society of CPAs and the New York State Society of CPAs, serving as Vice Chairman of the NYSSCPA Employee Benefits Committee.