The perfect moment to work differently is now.

We've been mulling over a new way of looking at changing journalism practice lately. It used to be that journalists would look askance at solutions reporting, meaningful community engagement and other approaches designed to change both the practice and the business of journalism. But that's less of a problem now. Increasingly, journalists are showing interest in changing how they work. This is great!

The problem now is helping them find the opportunity to do it. Pressures from the financial to the editorial to the political conspire to ensure journalists always feel like it's not the right time. So now we're trying to crack that problem, helping journalists — and editors! — understand that there will never be a perfect time. There are, however, growing troves of resources around whichever practices you want to pursue.

If there's one theme across the most recent batch of our newsletters, it's this: "Instead of waiting for the right moment, you have to help build it."

In the Sept. 25 edition of Above the Fold, we introduced The Climate Blueprint for Media Transformation. The result of working with Covering Climate Now , Columbia Journalism Review , and dozens of thoughtful climate journalists, the blueprint is designed to help you cover solutions, build understanding with communities bearing the brunt of climate change and report differently — not just more intensely. Keep reading, and you'll also get a moving video from students who participated in the Student Media Challenge, covering youth mental health through a solutions lens. Genevieve Belmaker is offering a climate SoJo training, Rest of World has an open call for journalists, and Bridget Thoreson wants you to think differently about your career. Read it all here.

In the Oct. 2 edition, we got to unveil another opportunity to seize the moment. Linda Shaw , Jaisal Noor and Tina Rosenberg wrote for Investigative Reporters and Editors about newsrooms doing incredible work covering democracy. They are pivoting away from the drama, the polls, the conflict kindling. Instead, they're leaning in on the messy work of democracy and contributing to a healthy civic life. IRE generously allowed us to republish the piece for all to read, and you can catch it in Above the Fold. After that, The Uproot Project is up to a lot of fun stuff this week, and Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, PhD is moderating a panel on Oct. 16 with the 2024 MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellows. The Texas Tribune launched a new local news outlet, The Waco Bridge, and it happens to be focused on community listening and solutions reporting. The Institute for Independent Journalists has an awesome newsletter, and I-79 Media Consults is always rounding up great opportunities. Get all of it here!

In the latest edition of Making the Grade, Michael Davis offers some gratitude for the teachers nurturing student journalism during uncertain times. Then he offers some great examples of work from the Student Media Challenge and relays some of the work that came from Stony Brook's student reporting trip to Nepal. You can also get some serious wisdom from Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin and find out how to catch SJN and some solutions-minded student journos at the National College Media Convention in New Orleans. Educators, this one's for you.

Of course, you also need your SoJo story fix. For that, head to the democracy edition of Solutions Worth Sharing. There, you'll get ... a climate story! But it's not just that. From Grist , learn about how the community of Moloka?i in Hawaii is using solar power to build energy sovereignty. After that, head to the climate edition for Bennet Goldstein 's story on what Mississippi River cleanup attempts might be able to learn from similar ones around the Chesapeake Bay.