The news values of solutions journalism

 This article analyzed what are the most frequent news values of solutions journalism (SJ). We examined 81 information units of seven Brazilian products that self-declare themselves as active in solutions journalism, either in the editorial line or with a dedicated section/editorial. The methodological insertion is quantitative and qualitative of each of the information units. The theoretical foundation has two major axes: the literature review of Solution Journalism with emphasis on the definition of the SJN and the concepts of the 10 most cited authors (Ostgaard, 1965; Galtung and Ruge, 1965; Staab, 1990; Bell, 1991; Schulz, 1982; Harcup and O'Neill, 2001; Richardson, 2004; Kepplinger and Ehmig, 2006; Eilders, 2006; Schultz, 2007; Weber, 2014 and Bednarek and Caple, 2017), known from the state-of-the-art study of news-values carried out last year (Seixas, Molina, Nunes, 2025). We argue that all information units have four frequent or fundamental news factors: conflict, consonance, significance and positivity.