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1 hour.Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences. Journalism Department. Contact person: Professor Pekka Huolman.

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SoJo is the new role that media is trying to play in society, where journalist becomes actor of change by showing how the change is happening in reality. I want students to know this and to follow this model, because like for every other good citizen we have to connect our work, to measure our deeds to the good impact that creates in the other people’s life. This lesson is going to help them to understand that good journalism is not just by showing what is bad, but how can be changed, how can be fixed.

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Solutions Journalism

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Lecture method. Being totally a new topic for the students, I think is going to be the best way to introduce, explain and connect it with their prior learning.

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Tasks (assignments, home works) between sessions

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Tasks (assignments, home works) between sessions

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Read two suggested articles and try to find what's in common:
1. Free Cash in Finland. Must Be Jobless.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/business/economy/universal-basic-income-finland.html?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
2. Finland is really good at stopping bullying. Here's how they're doing it
https://www.upworthy.com/finland-is-really-good-at-stopping-bullying-heres-how-theyre-doing-it?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker

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Solutions Journalism Network
https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/hub
Constructive Institute
https://constructiveinstitute.org/Learning/Research---Training
Accountable Journalism
https://accountablejournalism.org/ethics-codes/the-express-guide-to-constructive-journalism
PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs
https://studentreportinglabs.org/resource/lesson-11-what-newsworthy/
Huffpost
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-heimpel/the-journalism-for-social_b_8933016.html
The London School of Economics
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2018/08/07/the-rise-of-constructive-journalism-a-sign-that-academics-should-update-their-analytical-frameworks/
Video. SoJo: Why it matters?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XlQt0o9L_8

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Writing reflections about Solutions Journalism. (around 500 words) . Is going to be assessed by their professor.

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1 hour1. Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences. Journalism Department. Contact person: Professor Pekka Huolman.

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1 hour. Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences. Journalism Department. Contact person: Professor Pekka Huolman.

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1 hour. Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences. Journalism Department. Contact person: Professor Pekka Huolman.

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1 hour. Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences. Journalism Department. Contact person: Professor Pekka Huolman.

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1 hour. Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences. Journalism Department. Contact person: Professor Pekka Huolman.

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SoJo is the new role that media is trying to play in society, where journalist becomes actor of change by showing how the change is happening in reality. I want students to know this and to follow this model, because like for every other good citizen we have to connect our work, to measure our deeds to the good impact that creates in the other people’s life. This lesson is going to help them to understand that good journalism is not just by showing what is bad, but how can be changed, how can be fixed.

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SoJo is the new role that media is trying to play in society, where journalist becomes actor of change by showing how the change is happening in reality. I want students to know this and to follow this model, because like for every other good citizen we have to connect our work, to measure our deeds to the good impact that creates in the other people’s life. This lesson is going to help them to understand that good journalism is not just by showing what is bad, but how can be changed, how can be fixed.

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Pitching a Solutions Journalism story

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Solutions Journalism

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Lecture method. Being totally a new topic for the students, I think is going to be the best way to introduce, explain and connect it with their prior learning.

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Tasks (assignments, home works) between sessions

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Tasks (assignments, home works) between sessions

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Read two suggested articles and try to find what's in common:
1. Free Cash in Finland. Must Be Jobless.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/business/economy/universal-basic-income-finland.html?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
2. Finland is really good at stopping bullying. Here's how they're doing it
https://www.upworthy.com/finland-is-really-good-at-stopping-bullying-heres-how-theyre-doing-it?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker

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Resources (book chapters, articles, links, videos,..)

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Resources (book chapters, articles, links, videos,..)

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Solutions Journalism Network
https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/hub
Constructive Institute
https://constructiveinstitute.org/Learning/Research---Training
Accountable Journalism
https://accountablejournalism.org/ethics-codes/the-express-guide-to-constructive-journalism
PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs
https://studentreportinglabs.org/resource/lesson-11-what-newsworthy/
Huffpost
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-heimpel/the-journalism-for-social_b_8933016.html
The London School of Economics
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2018/08/07/the-rise-of-constructive-journalism-a-sign-that-academics-should-update-their-analytical-frameworks/
Video. SoJo: Why it matters?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XlQt0o9L_8

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Writing reflections about Solutions Journalism. (around 500 words) . Is going to be assessed by their professor.

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Finland is continuously ranked as one of the best countries for the freedom of media. In many other countries the journalist face a lot of difficulties to do their job. Bringing my 25 years experience in media and describing the Albanian media environment, I want the students to understand that being a journalist, sometimes it requires more than writing skills and needs a lot of efforts to face different challenges, mostly specifically associated with the journalist profession .

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Finland is continuously ranked as one of the best countries for the freedom of media. In many other countries the journalist face a lot of difficulties to do their job. Bringing my 25 years experience in media and describing the Albanian media environment, I want the students to understand that being a journalist, sometimes it requires more than writing skills and needs a lot of efforts to face different challenges, mostly specifically associated with the journalist profession .

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SoJo is the new role that media is trying to play in society, where journalist becomes actor of change by showing how the change is happening in reality. I want students to know this and to follow this model, because like for every other good citizen we have to connect our work, to measure our deeds to the good impact that creates in the other people’s life. This lesson is going to help them to understand that good journalism is not just by showing what is bad, but how can be changed, how can be fixed.

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Pitching a solutions journalism story

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Journalism in a transition country: Albania case.

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Journalism in a transition country: Albania case.

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Lecture method. Being totally a new topic for the students, I think is going to be the best way to introduce, explain and connect it with their prior learning.

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Lecture method. Being totally a new topic for the students, I think is going to be the best way to introduce, explain and connect it with their prior learning.

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Tasks (assignments, home works) between sessions

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Tasks (assignments, home works) between sessions

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Take notes from Reporters without borders:
Journalist Killed
and share with the professors and students before the lecture.

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Tasks (assignments, home works) between sessions

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Tasks (assignments, home works) between sessions

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Take notes from Reporters without borders:
Journalist Killed
and share with the professors and students before the lecture.

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Resources (book chapters, articles, links, videos,..)

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Resources (book chapters, articles, links, videos,..)

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Video: Overview of Albania
https://youtu.be/MIm0pXZayK4
Reporters without Borders , World Press Freedom Index 2018
https://rsf.org/en/albania
Media Ownership Monitor, Project of Reportes Without Borders
http://www.mom-rsf.org/en/countries/albania/
Council of Europe’s Indicators for media in a democracy: Albania
http://seenpm.org/report-albanian-media-vs-council-europe-standards/
Albanian Media Authority,
Audiovisual Broadcasters
http://ama.gov.al/subjekte-audiovizive/?lang=en
Albanian Media Authority
Content Monitoring
http://ama.gov.al/monitorimi-i-permbajtjeve/?lang=en
Eurotopics (European press roundup)
Inflection Points (Atlantic Council)
The World This Week (Council on Foreign Relations)
RiskHedge report

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Compare Finland and Albania of indexes of freedom of media, based on the latest report of Reporters Without Borders (Around 500 words). Is going to be assessed by their professor.

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Compare Finland and Albania on freedom of media, based on the latest report of Reporters Without Borders (Around 500 words). Is going to be assessed by their professor.

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Role play method. Students are in pairs: One is the journalist, the other one is the editor. Discussing in pairs and than presenting their idea in front of the whole class is going to give them the first experience on applying the solutions journalism criteria .

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Role play method. Students are in pairs: One is the journalist, the other one is the editor. Discussing in pairs and than presenting their idea in front of the whole class is going to give them the first experience on applying the solutions journalism criteria .

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Tasks (assignments, home works) between sessions

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Tasks (assignments, home works) between sessions

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Read: How do you craft a good pitch?

https://medium.com/@annfriedman/how-and-where-to-pitch-your-writing-1c316fa37bda

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Tasks (assignments, home works) between sessions

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Tasks (assignments, home works) between sessions

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Read: How do you craft a good pitch?

https://medium.com/@annfriedman/how-and-where-to-pitch-your-writing-1c316fa37bda

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Resources (book chapters, articles, links, videos,..)

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Resources (book chapters, articles, links, videos,..)

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Solutions Journalism Network
https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/hub
Constructive Institute
https://constructiveinstitute.org/Learning/Research---Training
Accountable Journalism
https://accountablejournalism.org/ethics-codes/the-express-guide-to-constructive-journalism
PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs
https://studentreportinglabs.org/resource/lesson-11-what-newsworthy/
Huffpost
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-heimpel/the-journalism-for-social_b_8933016.html
The London School of Economics
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2018/08/07/the-rise-of-constructive-journalism-a-sign-that-academics-should-update-their-analytical-frameworks/
Video. SoJo: Why it matters?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XlQt0o9L_8

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Resources (book chapters, articles, links, videos,..)

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Resources (book chapters, articles, links, videos,..)

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Solutions Journalism Network
https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/hub
Constructive Institute
https://constructiveinstitute.org/Learning/Research---Training
Accountable Journalism
https://accountablejournalism.org/ethics-codes/the-express-guide-to-constructive-journalism
PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs
https://studentreportinglabs.org/resource/lesson-11-what-newsworthy/
Huffpost
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-heimpel/the-journalism-for-social_b_8933016.html
The London School of Economics
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2018/08/07/the-rise-of-constructive-journalism-a-sign-that-academics-should-update-their-analytical-frameworks/
Video. SoJo: Why it matters?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XlQt0o9L_8

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By pitching the story and getting the approval they are going to assess themselves and the work of their partner on how it is related the new information to the prior knowledge and they can make the needed improvements using mine and the other students feedback.

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By pitching the story and getting the approval they are going to assess themselves and the work of their partner on how it is related the new information to the prior knowledge and they can make the needed improvements using mine and the other students feedback.

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Resources (book chapters, articles, links, videos,..)

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Resources (book chapters, articles, links, videos,..)

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Video: Overview of Albania
https://youtu.be/MIm0pXZayK4
Reporters without Borders , World Press Freedom Index 2018
https://rsf.org/en/albania
Media Ownership Monitor, Project of Reportes Without Borders
http://www.mom-rsf.org/en/countries/albania/
Council of Europe’s Indicators for media in a democracy: Albania
http://seenpm.org/report-albanian-media-vs-council-europe-standards/
Albanian Media Authority,
Audiovisual Broadcasters
http://ama.gov.al/subjekte-audiovizive/?lang=en
Albanian Media Authority
Content Monitoring
http://ama.gov.al/monitorimi-i-permbajtjeve/?lang=en
Eurotopics (European press roundup)
Inflection Points (Atlantic Council)
The World This Week (Council on Foreign Relations)
RiskHedge report

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I could have taken more examples from Finnish media to relate the Solutions Journalism with local stories that are well known by students.
My personal experience as a journalist made it more easy for me to answer any question about the topic.
Some historical elements included in the lecture, (I was not so sure about them) turned out to have a positive effect in helping students to understand why SoJo and why now.

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Role play was en excellent method. They tested their approaches to SoJo and through discussions things become clearer to them. As a result, the last pairs had time to correct and polish their pitches. Two pairs didn't present anything and they refused to give an explanation why. Their professor was not able to explore more.

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I could have taken more examples from Finnish media to relate the Solutions Journalism with local stories that are well known by students.
I could have taken more examples from Finnish media to relate the Solutions Journalism with local stories that are well known by students.
My personal experience as a journalist made it more easy for me to answer any question about the topic.
Some historical elements included in the lecture, (I was not so sure about them)  turned out to have a positive effect in helping students to understand why SoJo and why now.

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Role play was en excellent method. They tested their approaches to SoJo and through discussions things become clearer to them. As a result, the last pairs had time to correct and polish their pitches.
I liked the fact that students were able to search that day stories from Finland to pitch. Applying the lesson learned in such a short time it shows they I have succeeded  on delivering it.
Two students were not able to participate in discussions, because they were not confident on using their English language. Agreeing with their professor to use English during the lecture and seminar made me to believe that students had no problem with it. Maybe I should have asked students myself before the lecture and seminar to find a solution if the language was an obstacle for the students to participate.
Probably the English skills was the problem for 4 students of the Group A to not produce a story and they were to shy to admit it.

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I think the video that I showed was a good introduction about Albania for students, as most of them had no clue where and how it is.
When i talked about covering and writing stories from the war zones or volatile and dangerous places, it was handy if i had some extra information where a journalist can get training and supplies when is working a freelancer.

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After I answered their questions, I got the impression that students wanted more about my life experience as a journalist, Probably bringing up my stories that have inside parts of the Albanian reality that I wanted to highlight, could have been better to save time. Anyway, I think is not always possible to count the time like a chronometer. This becomes more difficult when you are talking about your life, because is difficult not to be subjective

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To collect the students feedback about the lecture, I delivered to them a survey. As the lecture and the seminar was done at the same day, I designed 10 questions to cover both teaching situations.
Out of 18 students that answered about the lecture, 1 was "very satisfied", 16 were "satisfied" and 1 OK. None of the was "dissatisfied" or "very dissatisfied".
For 4 of them the lecture was "very much" relevant and helpful, 11 found it relevant and helpful, while 1 said is OK. None of them had a negative opinion.
One of them thinks the content (presented and pre-read material) was excellent. 8 others think was very good and 3 of them found it as simple OK.
Their key take away from this lecture were:
"A good journalist seeks a solution for the problem she is writing about".
"You should'n't focus on the negative".
"SoJo is almost always positive news".
"It's always good to keep questioning things".
"You can write positive articles without ignoring the issues".
"Solutions can make the bad news good".
"We need solutions to make a change".
"Hard to name just one key point".
"Be positive in our reporting".
"SoJo", "howdunnit", crafting pitch".
"To change the mindset, to give solution leads, create discussions and tell stories differently and investigate who does it better".
"Don't focus on the negative".
"In Finland we have been taught to be objective about our stories, so this is very fresh view for me".
"Solutions are important".
Asked to give "Any overall feedback for the teacher", they wrote:
"I really enjoyed the lecture".
"Interesting and relevant topic".
"Could speak a bit louder".
"Thank you for reminding, what does the difference and effectiveness to journalism".
"I enjoyed your slides".

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When it comes to the seminar 10 of them are satisfied and 1 is very satisfied. Asked to compare the relevance of the lecture and seminar, 11 say the lecture and 5 find the seminar.
Two of them wrote an additional feedback about the seminar: One says
"More precise instructions",
and the other says
"Fun, creative exercise".
Their additional comment regarding Solutions Journalism:
"It was interesting to hear about it".
"Very interesting way of seeing the case material you have and how you shape it".
"Interesting!"
"Totally new subject for me".

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I did the same with the Group B, delivering the survey at the end of the lecture and seminar, that were done in same day.
Out of 12 students that shared their time to answer, 3 of them were very satisfied with lecture, five satisfied and 4 OK. None of them expressed a negative opinion.
6 of them find the lecture very much relevant and helpful for their studies. Respectively 3 students think is important and 3 say is OK.
One student thinks the content presented and pre-read material is excellent, 8 say is very good and 3 others say OK.
From this lecture, students have their key take away:
"It was interesting to hear about constructive journalism".
"Find the positive, do not show just the problem".
"Answer the HOW, show evidence, change your thinking/approach".
"Concentrate on the question WHY".
"People got fed up and exhausted with negativity. You should offer solutions, so there is not excuse not to fix issues".
"Possibilities for journalism are not decreasing, the opposite is true".
"That i know to llok more on the solutions".
"To learn about solutions journalism, since I haven't heard much about it before".
"How to do Solutions Journalism".
"Don't stop on reporting the problem, try to find the solution.
Some of them decided to give "Any overall feedback for the teacher":
"I liked the examples during the lecture. To many slides, like 60...?"
"Thanks for going straight to the topic".
"Interesting topic, mellow presentation! Well done!"
"Output was very clear and the performance was interesting and inspiring. Well done".
"On the presentation there could have been more detailed examples of the actual constructive news that have a fresh angle".
"Less repetition, more demonstration and examples".
"Thank you for practical examples!"

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Two students admitted that they are very satisfied with seminar, while four were satisfied and four others OK. None of them had a negative reaction. All students find both, the lecture and seminar very relevant.
Additional feedback on the seminar brings some contradictory views or perceptions among students:
"The slides were clear and informative".
"There was maybe too much repetition of the same things".
"Don't go through the slides too fast! Give us some time to ingest the information and write some key notes".
"Analyses at an article representing SoJo-style might give more insight of its goals and means to achieve it".
On the other section where I seek students additional comments regarding Solutions Journalism they are very enthusiast about it:
"Useful information on how to think and what to consider as a journalist".
"I would like this to become a trend in journalism and replace the negative news".
"It should be discussed more in our school".
"Interesting and important form of journalism".
"As a negative person, thinking through the solution is a peculiar idea, one that I should include on my tool pack".
"It might be a challenge sometimes to tell the difference between a solution ans someones opinion at one".