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Research Article Open Access
Solution journalism: The need of the contemporary developing societies
Abstract
Solution journalism is a reporting on the responses to the social problems which
include evidences and insights to help the communities. This trend of reporting
has gained a new height in recent years. The developing societies across the
world have been suffering from various forms of social problems which largely
affect populations of these countries. Here the role of media is crucial since it not
only covers the social problems but also provide essential preventive measures
to the society. With the development of innovative technologies, the media has
gained huge reach across the world. The urban population is more dependent on
media for their informational needs. The paper attempts to identify the need of
solution oriented information in the contemporary developing societies like India.
A survey (n=500) was conducted in the Delhi/NCR regions of India to find out the
dependency of people on media to connect with the news on social problems
and their quest to find solutions in the news programmes/ reports. It was found
that maximum respondents were highly dependent on media to get access to the
information about the social happenings. They were also found to prefer more
in-depth information in need of solutions to the widely shared social problems.