Tired of the same old doom and gloom? Are bleak and depressing headlines like, “US soldier, Afghan Killed by Roadside Bomb” and “Jobless Claims Surge, Market Seeks Traction” getting you down?

Then click your world-weary self over to HappyNews.com and discover that the world really isn’t going to hell in a handbasket after all.

HappyNews.com, whose credo is, “Real News, Compelling Stories, Always Positive,” believes that virtue, goodwill and heroism are “hot news.” A diverse team of citizen journalists reports uplifting and inspiring positive news from around the globe. Stories such as “Afghan girl gets chance for healthy life” and “Holiday sales outlook looking brighter” offer the kind of reassurance that we so desperately need in the midst of the calamity and anguish proffered up by our bottom-line-biased, ratings-driven capitalist media and its “if it bleeds, it leads” style of journalism.

While the advent of the 24-hour news cycle expanded the breadth of our understanding of global events, it has also left us all a little unrealistically pessimistic about the present state of the world and its future. An alternate perspective such as the one offered by HappyNews.com serves to remind us that there is good news and hope for the future, after all.