As part of an ongoing partnership between the Indigenous Journalists Association and the Solutions Journalism Network, we’re offering a free training opportunity open to all IJA members in January 2026. Limited spots are available. 

SJN’s Train-the-Trainers (ToT) program is for journalism trainers, editors/reporters, media experts and journalism school educators interested in (or already) leading solutions journalism training for others. Held over the course of five weeks, the selected group will get deep training in solutions journalism (rigorous, evidence-based reporting on how people and communities are responding to problems) and how to teach it. They will cooperate, innovate and adapt solutions journalism for their local needs as they learn (and sometimes even create) best practices for teaching and training others in solutions reporting. At the end, participants are invited to become accredited solutions journalism trainers with SJN. 

Each session will be co-led by SJN’s Communities of Practice Director Angela K. Evans, IJA Board Member Joseph Lee (Aquinnah Wampanoag) and Matt Simmons, SJN Trainer and staff writer at The Narwhal.

Offered virtually, IJA members can apply from anywhere. Participation at all five sessions are a mandatory requirement and also a core component to make this participant-driven training complete. Each session will last for three hours on January 8, 15, 22, 29 and February 5, between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. PT.

Application deadline is December 5 at 11:59 p.m. PT. IJA will notify the selection of candidates by Friday, December 12.