I have been focused on telling stories of locally-driven achievement for almost two decades now, because I believe that when people know what works, they are more likely to try it themselves. And I like these stories – I am interested in how people come up with new ideas and new approaches. 

But sometimes, it does feel like I am swimming against a tide of negativity.

I once worked as a journalist, so I know that there is a certain definition of ‘news’. For a long time, ‘good news’ was seen as a ‘nice to have’ peripheral feature, not a way of bringing balance to our picture of the world.

The journalism community has rethought this perspective in recent years, and now we have ‘solutions journalism’ which focuses on the solutions people are finding as well as the problems they are addressing. It tries to give us a bigger picture of our world.