NIJ Becomes First School to Produce Nigeria Health Watch Solutions Journalism Cohorts
Nigerian Institute of Journalism has become the first school to produce student cohorts that will expand the practice of Solutions Journalism in Africa. Solutions Journalism adopts a solutions-oriented approach to journalism; telling rigorous, investigative, and compelling stories of responses to various social problems so that they can be scaled up or replicated elsewhere. It differs from traditional, often problem-focused journalism because it highlights what works, as opposed to what does not, and goes further to investigate why an intervention or solution to a social problem was able to bring change. Three nominees from 10 newsrooms from across Nigeria participated in a two-day in-person training in Abuja to learn why solutions journalism matters and the framework for producing it and among these, NIJ produced the first set of student cohorts to grace the training. Three final year students from NIJ – Kehinde Ogunronbi , Noah Aderoju , and Ad...