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<i>Positive News</i>

Positive News

Media brand and quarterly magazine, based in the United Kingdom

Positive News is a constructive journalism media brand.[1] It publishes independent journalism online and in print, and aims to help create a more inspiring news medium.[2][3]

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Format and circulation

Positive News publishes daily online at positive.news. The print magazine is published quarterly with a circulation of 15,000 copies. It was originally printed in newspaper format, before relaunching as a magazine in January 2016.[4]

Publisher

Positive News is published by Positive News Publishing Ltd, a not-for-profit company with a remote working team based in the United Kingdom.[5] The company is a subsidiary of Positive News Limited, a community benefit society.[6]

History

Positive News was founded in 1993 by Shauna Crockett-Burrows (1930 – 2012) as a quarterly newspaper, and she soon after established Positive News Trust, a registered educational charity.[7]

In 2015, Positive News chief executive Sean Wood established a co-operative as the parent organisation of Positive News' publishing company.[8] Supporters of Positive News were invited to become co-owners in the new co-operative, via a community share offer.[9] Through its 30-day #OwnTheMedia crowdfunding campaign in June 2015, Positive News was invested in by more than 1,500 of its readers in 33 countries, age 18–89, raising more than £260,000.[10] Positive News was the first media organisation in the world to offer community shares globally through crowdfunding. Its #OwnTheMedia campaign was also the first community share issue to run on the Crowdfunder UK online crowdfunding platform.[11][12]

In January 2016, Positive News relaunched as a magazine with an increased emphasis on the quality of the journalism and of the design of the publication.[13]

Constructive journalism

Positive News has supported the establishment of similar publishing initiatives worldwide, including Noticias Positivas, which was founded in Argentina in 2003[14] by Andrea Méndez Brandam and in Spain in 2002 by the Asociación de Noticias Positivas, and which is independent of Positive News.

In 2014 Positive News in collaboration with the Constructive Journalism Project established constructive journalism as a recognised field within the UK's media industry, through delivering training programmes to journalists and journalism students.[15] Positive News is among an increasing number of media organisations practising constructive journalism.[16]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Thorpe, Esther Kezia (26 February 2018). "Positive News' Sean Dagan Wood on building membership around constructive journalism" (Podcast). Media Voices. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  2. [2]
    "About Positive News". Positive News. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  3. [3]
    Byrne, Louise (29 January 2018). "Positive News magazine sees subscriber growth as editor says people don't want journalism that leaves them 'completely hopeless'". Press Gazette. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  4. [4]
    "Positive News relaunches in print/". Positive News (Press release). 1 February 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  5. [5]
    "#OwnTheMedia in the media". Positive News. 2 July 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  6. [6]
    "Mutuals Public Register: Positive News Limited". mutuals.fca.org.uk. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  7. [7]
    Wood, Seán Dagan (18 June 2012). "Shauna Crockett-Burrows obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  8. [8]
    Roseingrave, Louise (17 August 2015). "Positive News gives readers a say in the kind of journalism it produces". The Irish Times. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  9. [9]
    Purdy, Lucy (29 January 2016). "#OwnTheMedia: A blueprint for reader-owned journalism". Positive News. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  10. [10]
    Ponsford, Dominic (3 February 2016). "Positive News relaunches as magazine after £263k crowdfunding campaign". Press Gazette (Press release). Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  11. [11]
    Brown, Sophie (13 July 2015). "Positive News Becomes World's First Crowdfunded Global Media Cooperative". HuffPost. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  12. [12]
    "Stay positive: News magazine relaunches as bencom". Co-operative News. 10 June 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  13. [13]
    Morley, Madeleine (10 March 2016). "New magazine | Positive News". magculture.com. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  14. [14]
    "NUESTRA HISTORIA" [OUR HISTORY]. Noticias Positivas (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  15. [15]
    Albeanu, Catalina (20 January 2015). "Constructive Journalism Project launches university workshops". journalism.co.uk (Press release). Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  16. [16]
    Oliver, Laura (1 August 2016). "And now for the good news: why the media are taking a positive outlook". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 August 2023.


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