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Do you ever feel overwhelmed andpowerless after watching the news? Does it make you feel sad about the world, without muchhope for its future? Take a breath – the world is not as bad as theheadlines would have you believe. In You Are What You Read, campaigner andresearcher Jodie Jackson helps us understand how our current twenty-four-hour news cycleis produced, who decides what stories are selected, why the news is mostlynegative and what effect this has on us as individuals and as a society. Combiningthe latest research from psychology, sociology and the media, she builds a powerfulcase for including solutions into our news narrative as an antidote to the negativitybias. You Are What You Read is not just a book, it is a manifesto for amovement: it is not a call for us to ignore thenegative but rather a call to not ignorethe positive. It asks us to change the way we consume the news and shows us how,through our choices, we have the power to improve our media diet, our mentalhealth and just possibly the world.

Jodie Jackson is an author, researcher and campaigner, and a partner at The Constructive Journalism Project. She holds a master’s degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of East London where she investigated the psychological impact of the news, and she is a regular speaker at media conferences and universities. She lives in London.@jacksonjodie21