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Public Interest News Network (PINN) harnesses the collaborative power of the pen to illuminate and advance the human-centered design, development and distribution of public interest technology. The process enables nonprofit organizations to help align and transform the emerging fields and diverse disciplines of public interest technology, communications, publishing and law into a collective high-growth industry dedicated to serving the public good.
PINN combines data journalism, people analytics and solutions storytelling to facilitate bipartisan policy discourse. The process is designed to help shape public policy, accelerate action and achieve diverse societal impact. Nonprofit organizations can assist in demonstrating how bipartisanship can identify problems and help to create policy solutions that advance national economic competitiveness. Bipartisan leaders can conduct research, fund pilot programs, test policy effectiveness and consequently mobilize support for policy change.
This paragraph describes our approach to local news media and is provided with grateful attribution to Matthew Kauffman - Data journalism turns anecdotes into systemic truths and provides the hard evidence to evaluate policies and hold policymakers accountable. It has become an indispensable part of high-impact, award-winning journalism. But many newsrooms are missing out on one of the most meaningful uses of data reporting: supporting the growing trend of Solutions Journalism that relies on rigorous evidence to identify policies and practices with a proven track record. Journalism has a long and proud tradition of exposing systemic problems, from racial injustice to government corruption to failures in business, education, healthcare and more. Solutions reporting takes that tradition a critical step forward, seeking out responses that are working and putting a spotlight on the places that are verifiably getting it right.
