Expanded Visual Style Guide
Detailed recommendations and examples for creating ethical imagery for content about addiction.
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Best Practices and Recommendations for Ethical Reporting on Addiction – Creating Visuals
One-page guide featuring recommendations for creating ethical imagery and caption writing.
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.
Language Style Guide – Expanded
Detailed list of terminology and language suggestions, expanding on the recommendations in the one-page.
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.