Editor-Approved: Telling Complex Stories about Opioid Settlement Spending
Editor-Approved: Telling Complex Stories about Opioid Settlement Spending In Mississippi, where opioid settlement dollars are quietly reshaping public health policy, […]
Video
Opioid Settlement Secrets: Digging Into Opioid Dollars with Data and FOIAs
Opioid Settlement Secrets: Digging Into Opioid Dollars with Data and FOIAs In this 30-minute webinar, data reporter for MuckRock, director
What Dry January Can Teach Journalists: Improve Your Alcohol Coverage Beyond the New Year
What Dry January Can Teach Journalists: Improve Your Alcohol Coverage Beyond the New Year Dry January presents an opportunity to
Building Trust in Addiction Reporting: A Toolkit for Trauma-Informed, Empathy-Based Journalism
This event featured the launch of three new toolkits – trauma-informed empathy-based reporting, digital security, and op-ed writing; followed by a discussion on implementing trauma-informed approaches.
Lift the Veil: Using Public Records to Investigate Opioid Settlement Spending
This didactic session offers tips, resources and tools you can use to break down barriers to public access to opioid settlement spending in your community and clearly present the information.
Conflicts of Interest and Opioid Settlement Money
This webinar discusses how to understand potential conflicts of interest present on the task forces responsible for spending or recommending spending of opioid settlement money.
Tribal Principles: Indigenous-Centered Perspectives on the Tribal Settlement Funds
This webinar features the Tribal Principles, which offer culturally-relevant, Indigenous-centered guidance for tribal leaders to consider when creating their spending plans for use of the tribal opioid settlements.
How to Reduce Stigma in Visual Journalism
This event premiered the visual style guide, reviewed its uses and discussed how these recommendations can help reduce stigma in addiction reporting and local communities.
Follow the Money: How to Track Opioid Settlement Dollars In Your State
In this webinar, Christine Minhee and Kate Boulton review with journalists the state-level resources they have created at OpioidSettlementTracker.com and Vital Strategies to help journalists track how opioid settlement funds are being distributed in order to hold public officials accountable for how it’s being spent.
Localize This: How to Cover Opioid Settlement Funds in Your Community
This 30-minute discussion features the basics of the opioid settlement funds and brainstorm potential stories journalists can begin working on today.