When
Where
Outbox Hub, 4th Floor, Soliz House, Lumumba Avenue, Kampala, Uganda
About the Event
An Interactive Session for Journalists, IT Professionals, Data Gurus and Students with Carolyn Robinson of the Solutions Journalism Network
With support from the Media Challenge Initiative, we shall be hosting Carolyn Robinson, the Deputy Director of Programs at the New York City-based Solutions Journalism Network to share on solutions journalism.
Are you tired of seeing problems like corruption, murder, rape, and poverty on the press headlines? Are you aware that for each of the above problems there are hundreds of working solutions being implemented but those solutions never make it to the headlines?
Solutions journalism is the approach to news reporting that focuses on the responses to social issues as well as the problems themselves. Contrary to traditional coverage of “what bleeds leads”, solutions journalism puts light to “what succeeds” and what systems and models are working to solve problems with the intention that they could be more easily replicated.
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About the Speaker: Carolyn Robinson
Carolyn Robinson is a video journalist, media development program director and educator. She began her career with CNN’s medical news unit in Atlanta before relocating to Asia and the Middle East, first as a senior news producer in Hong Kong, and then in East Timor, where she ran the local TV station for the United Nations. Robinson has received a Jefferson Fellowship, a Freedom Forum Fellowship and four Knight International Journalism Fellowships, and has trained journalists in almost two dozen countries around the world. At Al Jazeera English, she produced a daily talk show as well as a documentary on the North Dakota oil boom, among many other roles at the network. Robinson was the Internews program director in post-revolution Libya, overseeing journalism training projects in Tripoli and Benghazi, and has taught journalism at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University.
