COJO for COVID recovery: Solutions-focused constructive journalism as a pandemic exit strategy for local/regional UK communities

该项目以COVID-19为研究情境，通过在英国范围内的推广，调查以解决方案为重点的新型建设性新闻（称为COJO）在帮助地方/区域社区应对前所未有的挑战方面的潜在力量。随着公众走出封锁，面对摆脱大流行的痛苦和不确定的斗争，他们需要获得信息、激励和授权，以前瞻性的方式应对社会问题。作为一个严谨的基于证据的报道框架和工具，COJO——也被称为解决方案新闻（SOJO）——将焦点从问题转移到解决方案上，在解决这一紧迫问题方面具有强大的潜力。该项目汇集了伯恩茅斯大学、英国科学作家协会、解决方案新闻网络和Newsquest，调查了COJO可以帮助英国公众过渡到“新常态”的程度和方式。它需要在18个月内开展三项主要活动：(a)调查受流行病伤害的公众希望媒体，特别是地方新闻媒体采取什么行动，以知情、鼓舞和前瞻性的方式帮助他们摆脱危机；(b)利用第一阶段的调查结果和见解，制定并开展边做边学的活动，让英国各地的地方新闻机构就COVID-19解决方案进行建设性报道；(c)评估在退出期间新闻行业和公众的建设性新闻的总体价值及其对未来流行病/流行病和危机的新闻报道的影响。

This project uses COVID-19 as the research situation to investigate - through a UK-wide rollout - the potential power of the novel genre of solutions-focused constructive journalism (known as COJO) in helping local/regional communities to deal with unprecedented challenges. As the public emerges out of the lockdown to face a painful and uncertain struggle to exit from the pandemic, they will need to be informed, inspired and empowered to respond to social problems in a forward-looking manner. As a rigorous evidence-based reporting framework and toolkit that shifts the focus from what is the problem to what is the solution, COJO - also called solutions journalism (SOJO) - holds a strong potential to serve that acute cause. Gathering Bournemouth University, the Association of British Science Writers, the Solutions Journalism Network and Newsquest, this project investigates the extent to which and the way in which COJO can help the UK public to transition to the "new normal". It entails three major activities over 18 months: (a) investigate what a pandemic-wounded public expects the media, especially local news, to do to help them out of the crisis in an informed, inspired and forward-looking manner; (b) use the findings and insights from the first phase to develop and deliver a learning-by-doing campaign in which local news titles across the UK produce constructive journalism on COVID-19 solutions; and (c) evaluate the overall values of constructive journalism for both the news industry and the public during the exit and their implications for news coverage of future epidemics/pandemics and crises.