Francine L. Huff, who serves as the Knight Chair for Student Achievement in the FAMU School of Journalism and Graphic Communications, has been selected to participate in an HBCU Solutions Journalism Educator Academy. She is one of 16 HBCU professors selected for the program.
Participants in the program, which was scheduled for July 2020, but because of COVID has been postponed until 2021, will learn to teach solutions journalism in the classroom and incorporate it into student newsrooms.
Solutions journalism is an approach to news report that focuses on the responses to social issues as well as the problems themselves. Solutions stories, anchor credible evidence and explain the how and why. The goal of the approach is to present people with a truer, more complete view of issues.
Howard University Professors Yanick Rice Lamb and Ingrid Sturgis are the driving forces behind creating a solutions journalism academy designed specifically for HBCU educators.