Dowser - The Site for Solution Journalism

The day Darell Hammond read a Washington Post story about two children who had suffocated in a car because they had nowhere else to play, he knew he had reached the point of no return. Hammond had worked as a community organizer in ...

One of the reasons we launched Dowser is because the media over-reports social problems and under-reports potential solutions - and when they do cover solutions, they often do it poorly. Today I’ll look at one issue in particular: journalists who identify superficial conflicts ...