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Positive News

Positive News is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Positive News rather than just read about it. In short: Positive News is a constructive journalism media brand. It publishes independent journalism online and in print, and aims to help create a more inspiring news medium.

Key takeaways

Positive News belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Positive News to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Positive News from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Positive News is a constructive journalism media brand. It publishes independent journalism online and in print, and aims to help create a more inspiring news medium.

Publisher Positive News is published by Positive News Publishing Ltd, a not-for-profit company with a remote working team based in the United Kingdom. The company is a subsidiary of Positive News Limited, a community benefit society.

History Positive News was founded in 1993 by Shauna Crockett-Burrows as a quarterly newspaper, and she soon after established Positive News Trust, a registered educational charity. In 2015, Positive News chief executive Sean Wood established a co-operative as the parent organisation of Positive News' publishing company. Positive News was the first media cooperative in the world to offer community shares globally through crowdfunding. In January 2016, it was relaunched as a magazine.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Positive News

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Positive News claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Positive News before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Positive News ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Positive News

In research: Positive News appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Positive News in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Positive News is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Citizen journalism, News media in the United Kingdom, Newspapers published in the United Kingdom stubs, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Positive News outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Positive News in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Positive News means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Positive News out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Positive News in simple terms?

Positive News is a constructive journalism media brand. It publishes independent journalism online and in print, and aims to help create a more inspiring news medium.

Why does Positive News matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Positive News?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Positive News.