Positive News: Shaping Media’s Future with Values-Aware Journalism & Community

Positive News introduces values-aware journalism and a What Next? project to reflect community values, launching a survey based on Schwartz's theory. It aims to build trust, empower audiences, and reshape media by focusing on solutions and human potential, not just conflict.

This is a real conversation. Throughout the project, we’ll share what we’re learning with updates, and at the end we’ll release a complete account of what we heard and just how it’s forming our following chapter.

Because it’s no much longer enough simply to report the information– also if it is positive. These are the kinds of concerns we desire to discover by better understanding your values and demands.

Understanding Values-Aware Journalism

It’s part of how we’re checking out an arising idea called values-aware journalism. The premise is that all journalism mirrors values, which the important things media organisations choose to emphasise– knowingly or otherwise– form people’s sense of what matters on the planet.

Over time, it forms what people see, what they believe others care about, what they think is possible, and how much agency they feel they have. Journalism is never ever really neutral.

Conventional news society typically gives most focus to concepts such as status, competitors, wide range and power as markers of what issues. Yet worths research study has consistently shown that many people put higher importance on points such as area, equality, link, look after others and look after the natural world. Values-aware journalism is about ending up being extra aware and clear regarding the worths behind editorial options, and the result those options have.

The Challenge for Modern Journalism

We likewise want to better understand what people are truly looking for from journalism at a time when rely on media is low, many individuals really feel overwhelmed by the information, and electronic material significantly completes for interest with outrage, stress and anxiety, disinformation and distraction.

Every day, information organisations choose that decide what should have focus. Specific sort of stories dominate the program: national politics, criminal activity, war, the economic climate– and these subjects are often told with a lens of dispute, crisis, danger, competition or division. These issues are important, however they’re not the whole of truth, nor the only way to take a look at the globe.

Positive News: A Different Approach

This connects carefully with Positive Information’ long-lasting positive journalism approach. We’ve constantly thought journalism can construct a fuller photo of reality and empower people– not by ignoring troubles, but by concentrating on development, remedies and human potential.

The Flagship Values Survey

As component of this, we’re introducing our flagship Positive News worths survey today. This makes use of a long-standing structure called Schwartz’s concept of fundamental human worths, which is utilized by social psycho therapists to comprehend the values individuals hold closest. At the end of the survey, you’ll obtain an individual values account, giving you a snapshot of the concepts and motivations that shape just how you see the globe.

Favorable News is currently structured as a community advantage culture, a type of co-operative created to offer the general public as opposed to private shareholders. This following stage has to do with building on that objective by checking out just how more of what we do can be shaped around our community and shared worths– from the tales we cover and the methods you take part, to the experiences or services we create beyond journalism.

Positive News: What Next? Project

— a seven-week paying attention project welcoming our audience and wider community to help shape the future of Positive News. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be asking what you worth, what you desire from your media, and what role Positive News plays in your life.

Ultimately, Favorable News: What Next off? It’s asking: what does a media organisation that absolutely profits its community look like?

As part of this, we’re launching our flagship Favorable Information worths study today. Inevitably, Positive Information: What Next?

That’s the inquiry behind Favorable News: What Next?– a seven-week paying attention task inviting our target market and larger community to aid shape the future of Positive News. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be asking what you value, what you want from your media, and what role Favorable Information plays in your life.

Discover your individual worths profile with the Favorable Information worths survey. It reveals what matters most to you throughout 10 core human worths, and belongs to our seven-week job, Positive Information: What Next?