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Happy Spring, Reporting on Addiction community! We’ve had a busy few months since the start of the year, and we wanted to share an update on all of the good that’s come, along with some new items heading your way soon. Now Accepting Applications: Summer 2024 Journalism Educator
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Downloadable visual style guides in English. This guide is based on up-to-date research and focus groups with journalists, educators, experts through training, and experts through experience. RoA_Visual Guide - Spring 2024RoA_Visual Guide - Spring 2024.pdf122 KBdownload-circleSign-up to Our Newsletter
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We hope you and your loved ones enjoyed the holiday season! Our team at Reporting on Addiction took some much-needed time off around the holidays, and we are back to kick 2024 off with some exciting news! Journalism Microgrant Application EXTENSION As we mentioned in the last update, our
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Reporting on addiction accurately and ethically Our webinar with the Association of Health Care Journalists, a resource hub for health journalists. Reporting on addiction accurately and ethicallyIn this webinar, learn how to avoid some of the most common errors reporters make when covering drug addiction.Association of Health Care JournalistsKatti
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‘Offensive’ news about opioids in Appalachia prompts launch of website aimed at improving addiction coverage Our conversation with the Association of Health Care Journalists, a resource hub for health journalists. ‘Offensive’ news about opioids in Appalachia prompts launch of website aimed at improving addiction coverageDo you cover drug addiction in
Opioid Settlement Fireside Chats
Yesterday, we hosted the third in our series of fireside chats aimed at helping journalists cover the billions of dollars into opioid settlement monies coming in our communities right now. Andrea Medley of the Center for Indigenous Health shared with us how to use the Tribal Principles, which offer culturally-
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It's National Recovery Month and at Reporting on Addiction, we're excited to announce the latest in our resources to support journalists covering addiction, treatment, harm reduction and recovery. This week, we launched our Reporting on Addiction Style Guide to Ethical Visual Reporting. This one-page document
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Yesterday, we hosted the second in our series of fireside chats aimed at helping journalists cover the billions of dollars in opioid settlement monies coming in our communities right now. Kate Boulton of Vital Strategies and Christine Minhee of OpioidSettlementTracker.com and Yale Law School’s Solomon Center shared with
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Hi everyone, We’ve had quite the summer! Since we last updated in June, we launched the first-of-its-kind Reporting on Addiction Visual Style Guide, trained a new cohort of journalism educators to implement our curriculum in their courses, and conducted one-on-one assistance with professional journalists.
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A brief explainer of our work in the West Virginia University Reed College of Media Magazine..
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Covering Substance Use and Addiction Responsibly Our interview with the Open Notebook, a resource hub for science journalists. Covering Substance Use and Addiction Responsibly - The Open NotebookStories about substance use and addiction can be among the thorniest that science journalists encounter. By leaning too heavily on tragic narratives or buying