40 newspapers share news on positive change
What you need to know:
- Nearly 40 leading newspapers from all over the world— including the Saturday Nation — joined our effort and are publishing supplements dedicated to innovative solutions.
- Today, you are one of 100 million readers discovering our stories of hope. Imagine if every reader shared these stories with those around them.
- Choose one and tell it to your children, your colleagues, your friends. Become a part of the movement by motivating others.
Day after day, the news confronts us with the world’s troubles. This constant reminder can make us anxious, afraid — or even worse, anesthetised.
But now more than ever, citizens, companies, universities and organisations are developing new ways to solve humanity’s problems.
We are witnessing an outpouring of social innovation and social businesses around the planet.
The job of the press is to keep us informed.
And yet the time has passed when the media’s greatest impact came essentially from “turning the pen in the wound”, as the great French journalist, Albert Londres, once wrote.
Increasingly, reporters want to contribute to the common good by writing about solutions, thereby amplifying their effects and creating hope.
Nearly 40 leading newspapers from all over the world— including the Saturday Nation — joined our effort and are publishing supplements dedicated to innovative solutions.
Each paper contributed one or more articles, then chose what to publish from the 100 or so stories we assembled.
Last year on Impact Journalism Day, a woman in Singapore read an article about adjustable eyeglasses that could correct more than half of the world’s vision problems for only $4 (about Sh320) a pair.
She showed the article to her husband, an executive at a multinational lens manufacturer. He contacted the inventors, and now they are collaborating on a pilot project in India that could improve the lives of millions. This is the kind of impact we set out to achieve.
Today, you are one of 100 million readers discovering our stories of hope. Imagine if every reader shared these stories with those around them.
Choose one and tell it to your children, your colleagues, your friends. Become a part of the movement by motivating others.
Take part in our “selfie” contest by posting a photo of yourself and this newspaper via Twitter (#ImpactJournalism and add the # of your newspaper) or the Facebook page of our founding partner, AXA (facebook.com/AXAPeopleProtectors).
Mr Boisredon is the founder of Sparknews/Impact Journalism Day
