Francine Huff, the Knight Chair for Student Achievement in the FAMU School of Journalism and Graphic Communications will be leaving her post to join the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) as its new Director of Journalism School Partnerships, according to a story in Editor & Publisher Magazine.
Huff is an award-winning journalist, author and journalism educator, taught advanced reporting with a focus on digital media techniques, oversaw the senior capstone experience in the FAMU J-School for seven years.
Her 25 years of newsroom and editorial business experience include bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal and editor and reporter at the Boston Globe, Pittsburgh Press and Valley News Dispatch had been of tremendous value to FAMU students.
Since 2013, the Solutions Journalism Network has advanced the practice of reporting that goes beyond the common problem-focused approach to news coverage and applies equal rigor to reporting on effective responses. This balanced approach, which is shown to increase audience trust and engagement, sharpen stakeholder accountability and open up new sources of revenue, has been applied by some 500 news organizations and 20,000 individual journalists.
The Solutions Journalism Network is an independent, non-profit organization, headquartered in New York City, NY, that advocates an approach of solutions journalism, an evidence-based mode of reporting on the responses to social problems.
