Colombian journalist Laura Dulce Romero was burnt out and considering quitting the trade. But a new style of reporting, Solutions Journalism, caught her attention: this method seeks to report news in a constructive way. In this six-part series, Laura puts the SoJo methodology – which can be summarised by the acronym WHOLE – to the test by interviewing practitioners about what SoJo offers by way of a solution to journalistic burnout, how it works, observations from those who use it, the limitations of the approach, and evidence that support its claims.
This WHOLE story stopped me quitting journalism
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Laura Dulce Romero
Laura is an editor and multimedia journalist from Bogotá who has covered the armed conflict, transitional justice, human rights, reconciliation, gender and truth in Colombia. Most of her work has been published in El Espectador, the second largest daily national newspaper with 30 million unique users. For the past three years she has worked at Colombia 2020, a journalistic and pedagogical project that rigorously monitors the implementation of the Peace Accord signed between the Colombian government and the former FARC guerrillas in 2016.