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Best Practices and Recommendations for Ethical Reporting on Addiction
One-page guide featured research-based, non-stigmatizing language recommendations and story tag for addiction reporting.
Best Practices and Recommendations for Ethical Reporting on Addiction – Creating Visuals
One-page guide featuring recommendations for creating ethical imagery and caption writing.
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.
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.
Contingency Management
This resource helps journalists understand and report on contingency management.
Covering Opioid Settlement Funds
A set of resources, networks and training to help you cover the opioid settlement funds entering local communities.
Editor-Approved: Telling Complex Stories about Opioid Settlement Spending
Editor-Approved: Telling Complex Stories about Opioid Settlement SpendingIn Mississippi, where opioid settlement dollars are quietly reshaping public health policy, journalists […]
Expanded Visual Style Guide
Detailed recommendations and examples for creating ethical imagery for content about addiction.
Expert Database
A source list of vetted, searchable addiction subject matter experts from across the country.
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.
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.
How To: Writing Op-Eds
This resource walks experts through the process of preparing, pitching and writing op-eds.
How-To: Digital Security
Toolkit featuring best practices for journalists to protect themselves and their sources online.
How-To: Trauma-Informed and Empathy-Based Reporting
Toolkit featuring best practices for responsibly interacting with sources.
Language Style Guide – Expanded
Detailed list of terminology and language suggestions, expanding on the recommendations in the one-page.
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.
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.
Opioid Settlement Secrets: Digging Into Opioid Dollars with Data and FOIAs
Opioid Settlement Secrets: Digging Into Opioid Dollars with Data and FOIAsIn this 30-minute webinar, data reporter for MuckRock, director of […]
Tackling Addiction Stigma By Working With Journalists
This discussion features ways we can work across our fields to overcome barriers and improve reporting on addiction.
Tackling Addiction Stigma by Working with the Media
A virtual panel discussion about the intersection of addiction stigma, discrimination, and the media
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.
Understanding Alcohol Use Disorder
This resource details alcohol use disorder and tips for reporting on the subject.
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 YearDry January presents an opportunity to inform […]
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