Positive News
Inspiration for a change
Positive News is the world’s original and leading positive newspaper. Focusing on solutions, it reports on people and initiatives that are creating a sustainable, just and fulfilling world.
Positive News aims to inform, inspire and empower its readers, while helping create a more responsible and balanced media.
About the print edition
The print edition of Positive News has a circulation of 50,000 and is currently published four times a year.
Collating our most inspiring stories each quarter, in an age of information overload the print edition of Positive News is the best way to get an overview of positive developments in the world and to read through articles at ease. To receive the print edition, please become a member.
Community supported media
Positive News relies on the financial support of its members, who receive the paper delivered to their doors.
As well as copies sent to members, Positive News is also distributed by a unique grassroots network of readers and supporters, to outlets across the UK where the newspaper is picked up free of charge by the public. This is assisted by our ‘sponsor a bundle’ scheme.
We are also grateful for the backing of our ethical advertisers, for the support of people who make donations, and for the efforts of our volunteer contributors.
Working for social and environmental benefit
Positive News is published by Positive News Publishing Ltd, a not-for-profit social enterprise, with support from Positive News Trust, a registered charity.
Positive News is dedicated to promoting environmental sustainability, peace, social justice and equality, cultural diversity, political co-operation, individual fulfilment, and community empowerment.
By publishing news relating to initiatives bringing positive social and environmental change, Positive News magnifies their benefits. By drawing attention to such initiatives, we inspire and facilitate their development, expansion and replication.
Positive News also brings direct social benefit through its impact on mental health. Readers inform us of how our content moves them from despair to hope and from disempowerment to an understanding that they can change their perspective and take action to positively influence their own and others’ lives.
History
Positive News was founded in 1993 by Shauna Crockett-Burrows.