More and more journalists are enthusiastic about solutions stories. We rarely wrote about the community-based organizations and what they were doing to try to correct these problems. Then Karen Lin Clark was assigned to be the paper's first solutions editor. Clark said she hoped California might do the same. Another story described a man who keeps neighborhood kids off the streets by teaching them boxing, at a ring he built at home.
Kids can participate if they promise to fight only in the ring.
A Journal of Positive Futures came in Spring 1996 from Bainbridge Island, near Seattle. In his introduction to the magazine's first list of proposals, editor James Fallows argued that reporters should cover what's right and how to improve what's wrong. Many readers notice the aversion, have trouble understanding it, and conclude that journalists are just misanthropes. We're sort of taught to think that way. Pulitzer Prizes are rarely won for solutions stories.