Peter Bro's book: Constructive Journalism: Precedents, Principles and Practices uses a historical approach to discourse the contemporary constructive journalism's foundational principles, conceptualization and future trajectory. To do this, Bro draws on key seminal figures in the action journalism movement, thereby illuminating the active journalism continuum within which constructive journalism is situated. While the book offers a working definition of constructive journalism, it also illuminates the need for a more refined definition of what constructive journalism entails, and how it ought to be practised. Nonetheless, overall the book makes a significant contribution to the contemporary constructive journalism movement, and by extension the greater socially responsible journalism movement.