BOOKS
A selection of a perpetually growing international bibliography and academic research on the subject of Constructive and Solutions Journalism.
Catherine Gyldensed (2015). From Mirrors to Movers: Five Elements of Positive Psychology in Constructive Journalism, GGroup Publishing.
Michelle Gielan (2016). Broadcasting Happiness.
Ulrik Haagerup (2017). Constructive News: How to save the media and democracy with journalism of tomorrow, Aarhus University Press.
Alan Rusbridger (2018.) Breaking News: The remaking of journalism and why it matters now.
Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund (2018). Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Gregg Easterbrook (2018). It’s better Than It Looks.
Jackson, J. (2019). You Are What You Read
Kristina Lund Jørgensen & Jakob Risbro (2021). KONSTRUKTIV JOURNALISTIK – FRA IDÉ TIL HISTORIE (Constructive Journalism - From Idea to History).
McIntyre Hopkinson, K., & Dahmen, N. (Eds.). (2021). Reporting Beyond the Problem: From Civic Journalism to Solutions Journalism.
Casares, A. (2021). La hora del periodismo constructivo – El poder transformador de la información orientada al futuro y a las soluciones(Time for Constructive Journalism - The transformative power of future-oriented and solution-oriented information.)
Ellen Heinrichs and Astrid Prange de Oliveira (2022). Journalismus auf der Couch (Journalism on the Couch).
Book Chapters
- Zhang, Y., & Matingwina S. (2016) Constructive Journalism: A New Journalistic Paradigm of Chinese Media in Africa.In: Zhang X., Wasserman H., Mano W. (eds) China’s Media and Soft Power in Africa. Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
- Krüger, U. (2017). Constructive News: A New Journalistic Genre Emerging in a Time of Multiple Crises. In: Hofkirchner W., Burgin M. (eds) The Future Information Society: Social and Technological Problems. New Jersey: World Scientific, pp. 403-422.
- Pirolli, B. (2018). A Constructive Approach to Tourism Reporting. In Travel Journalism: Informing Tourists in the Digital Age. Routledge.
- Thier, K. (2019). Interviewing for Solutions. In P. Laufer & J. Russial (Eds.), Interviewing: The Oregon Method(2nd ed., pp. 163-172). Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.
- Nistor, V. (2020). Media and Survival: From Investigative Journalism to Constructive Journalism and Solutions. In I. Boldea & C. Sigmirean (Eds.), The Dialogue of Multicultural Discourses(pp. 100-107). Tîrgu Mureş, România: Arhipelag XXI Press. [Language: Romanian with English abstract]
- Bro, P. & Gyldensted, C. (2021). Constructive Journalism: Portraying the World Accurately through Positive Psychology Reporting. In McIntyre Hopkinson, K., & Dahmen, N. (Eds.), Reporting Beyond the Problem: From Civic Journalism to Solutions Journalism. Peter Lang.
- Thier, K. (2021). Solutions Journalism: Reporting on the Response is Just as Newsworthy as Reporting on the Problem. In McIntyre Hopkinson, K., & Dahmen, N. (Eds.), Reporting Beyond the Problem: From Civic Journalism to Solutions Journalism. Peter Lang.
- Byrd, L. S. (2021). At the Intersection of Media Innovation and Solutions Journalism: Applying the Solutions Journalism Model to Develop Socially Conscious Entrepreneurs. In Cultivating Entrepreneurial Changemakers Through Digital Media Education(pp. 208-222). IGI Global.
- Ahva, L. (2022). Socially Responsible Journalism: Diverse Responses to Polarisation. In The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism(pp. 352-361).
- Urner, M. (2022). Storytelling for Sustainability and Constructive Journalism: A Perfect Pair?In Fischer, D., Fücker, S., Selm, H., & Sundermann, A. (Eds.), Narrating Sustainability through Storytelling. Taylor & Francis.
- Rodrigues, U. M., & Baker, A. (2022). Reporting on Sexual Violence during the #MeToo 2.0 Hashtag Era: Can the Media Be an Agent of Social Change?In Baker, A., & Rodrigues, U. M. (Eds.), Reporting on Sexual Violence in the# MeToo Era. Taylor & Francis.
- Tsene, L. (2022). From Citizen Journalism to Journalism for Citizens: Impactful Social Journalism. In Journalism and Digital Content in Emerging Media Markets(pp. 89-109). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
- Tshabangu, T., & Salawu, A. (2022). Constructive Journalism and COVID-19 Safe Nation Narratives in Newspaper: Implications for Journalism Ethics in Zimbabwe. In Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa(pp. 95-108). Springer, Cham.