Research roundtable: Collaborative scaffolding and solutions journalism (CJS2022 Day 2): Otter Voice Meeting Notes

Research roundtable: Collaborative scaffolding and solutions journalism (CJS2022 Day 2)

Joe Amditis28min

Stefanie Murray

00:02

Next up, to close out today's research roundtable, we have the newest paper just published this week, I'd like to welcome to the stage, Caroline Porter and Elizabeth Hanson Shapiro, who are going to talk about collaborative scaffolding. And this report is on the clever girls and website, we will drop a link in the chat and I'll turn it over to Carrie and Elizabeth.

Stefanie Murray

00:28

Right.

Caroline Porter

00:30

Well, thank you so much for that introduction. Hi, everyone. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to talk today about some research that we've been working on for about a year and change. My name is Caroline Porter. And Elizabeth would like to

Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro

00:49

Hi, Elizabeth Hanson, Shapiro, happy to be here.

Caroline Porter

00:52

Terrific. So we had an opportunity to research the outcomes for six different solutions, journalism collaboratives, between the fall of 2020 in the fall of 2021. And we recently published the research just this week.

Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro

01:12

So we're going to talk you a little bit about what we found and the implications of what we found. Because while we studied a very specific set of collaboratives, we think the dynamics and insights that we generated have applicability to all kinds of collaborative projects. But just to kind of ground ourselves in where we began this research. So our kind of motivating question was to understand and track the outcomes that were being generated by a set of solutions journalism focused local media collaboratives. And this was really interesting to us. Because, you know, we've done a lot of work in the field around collaborative journalism. And, and there's been a lot of work on solutions journalism, as a as a different and generative approach to covering the issues that matter to communities. And the distinctiveness about these clevers that we started is that they were really trying to bring these two things together. So both collaboration and solutions journalism. So the animating question for us was, you know, what, like, what is the special sauce here for solutions, journalism, and what's happening in these collaboratives? That's allowing them to create different kinds of outcomes. And Carrie, are you still able to? Seems like we might be having some AV issues here? Yes,

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