Solutions Journalism (18th Mar, 1pm, SMSU South Room 215) – CSUSB Social Justice Summit – 17th – 20th March, 2025
Dr. Thomas ‘T.C.’ Corrigan, Department of Communication & Media at CSUSB, is organizing a panel on Solutions Journalism that will be featured as part of next week’s CSUSB Social Justice Summit.
The CSUSB Social Justice Summit is taking place from Monday 3/17 to Thursday 3/20.
This year’s theme is, “From Hashtags to Action: Turning Online Momentum into Real-World Impact.”
More on the Summit here.
The Solutions Journalism panel will be on Tuesday, March 18, from noon to 1 pm in SMSU South Room 215. I hope you’ll join us if you’re available, and please invite your students!
Attendees can register here.
The panel will feature the following area journalists and media professionals:
• Alicia Ramirez, Founder and Publisher, The Riverside Record
• Candice Mays, Project Director, Mapping Black California
• Christopher Salazar, Reporter, The Frontline Observer
• Lacey Kendall, CSUSB Lecturer & Host of Education Insight
• Madison Aument, Reporter, KVCR 91.9
Here is a description of the panel:
Traditional journalism has tended to focus on social problems, such as crime and corruption. Solutions journalism, by contrast, interrogates the root causes of social problems, and it uses rigorous journalistic techniques to report on the efforts that are being undertaken address those problems, including what’s worked, what hasn’t, and why. In doing so, solutions journalism is a vital tool for empowering local communities and advancing social justice.
In this conversation, CSUSB faculty, students, and community members will meet local publishers, broadcasters, and journalists who are using both traditional and digital media to produce solutions-oriented journalism that enlightens and empowers local communities. Panelists will discuss their outlet’s solutions journalism and its impact; how they interface with government, corporate, and community groups; and how they navigate (supposed) tensions between journalistic objectivity and social activism. Faculty, students, and community members will come away with a broader understanding of what digital journalism is and can do, and they will be empowered to engage in and with solutions journalism as a means of advancing social, racial, gender, economic, and environmental justice.
The panel is a project of CSUSB’s Local Journalism Partnerships Initiative, which fosters news-academic collaborations to support high quality journalism in California’s Inland Empire. The initiative is supported by the CSUSB’s Catalytic Investment on Research and Innovation Seed (CiRIS) grant and the Office of Community Engagement’s Establishing Community Partnerships grant.