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If you’ve been following The Narwhal for a while, you might know that we’re pretty huge fans of a wave-making U.S.-based organization called the Solutions Journalism Network.

The network, co-founded by a trio of New York Times writers, takes on big challenges in journalism — and they do it by digging into the (really) hard questions.

They ask how journalists can "seek to rebalance the news, so that every day people are exposed to stories that help them understand problems and challenges." And they encourage journalists to tell "stories that show potential ways to respond."

AKA ... exactly what we try to do here at The Narwhal.

Which is why we were totally tickled when they asked us to tell them more about our work.

We're featured as this month's "Solutionist," and we couldn't be more thrilled.

Our Alberta reporter, Sharon J. Riley, and I talked with Allen Arthur about how The Narwhal got started, how our readers (i.e. you!) reward us for telling complex stories by donating to support our journalism and about whether journalists can really be "objective conveyors of the facts."

Aaaand we talked about what we like to call "gateway buts." What's that, you ask? It stems from something our Alberta reporter hears all the time: "I support oil and gas, but ..."

"The 'but' to me is what’s interesting," Sharon says. "It’s a gateway to a much more nuanced conversation."

You'll find all sorts of (what we hope are) super quote-able tidbits in our interview — and, of course, we couldn't stop singing the praises of our readers, because "they send us story ideas, they give us pats on the back and they donate to us. They share our stories." As always, we couldn't be more grateful.

Keep scrolling for all our reader-funded stories this week.

Thanks for reading,

Emma Gilchrist
Editor-in-Chief

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