Journalists
Digging Into Opioid Settlement Dollars? Let us help!
Watch our discussion about how FOIAs can support your reporting
Journalists
📽️ Dry January Webinar (Video)
Is January over today? Yep! So why keep talking about Dry January? Because we know that coverage about alcohol doesn't stop on January 31st. Your next year of alcohol-related news coverage could include: * What can people do in February now that Dry January is over? * The emerging connections
Journalists
Dry January & Damp January Webinar
This is part of our series of articles about Dry January & Damp January Journalists cover Dry January & Damp January because drinking is so common. More so than other substances associated with harm, a journalist (and their audience) likely has experiences with drinking because alcohol use is socially acceptable—
Explainer
Building Trust in Addiction Reporting: A Toolkit for Trauma-Informed, Empathy-Based Journalism
We're continuing our efforts to help journalists across the country cover addiction in their communities by hosting a fireside chat with two professionals to discuss our brand new guide to trauma-informed and empathy-based approaches to interviewing: Maine Monitor reporter Emily Bader and parenting and trauma trainer and lived
Resources
Trauma-informed and Empathy-based Reporting Toolkitđź“ť
There are high rates of trauma among people who use drugs, have an active addiction, are in treatment or recovery, or love and support people having these experiences. Understanding that trauma can shape our interactions is an important step toward conducting ethical interviews with vulnerable, historically marginalized people that do
Opioid Settlement Fireside Chats
Lift the Veil: Using Public Records to Investigate Opioid Settlement Spending
Opioid Settlement Fireside Chats
Conflicts of Interest and Opioid Settlement Money
Opioid Settlement Fireside Chats
Tribal Principles: Indigenous-Centered Perspectives on the Tribal Settlement Funds
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-relevant,
Videos
How to Reduce Stigma in Visual Journalism
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 is
Accountability
Follow the Money: How to Track Opioid Settlement Dollars in Your State
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
Opioid Settlement Fireside Chats
Localize This: How to Cover Opioid Settlement Funds in Your Community
Videos
Tackling Addiction Stigma by Working With Journalists
Last week, the Reporting on Addiction team – in partnership with the Reed College of Media at West Virginia University and WVU Health Sciences – led a discussion in Morgantown, West Virginia, with people with lived experience, addiction science experts, activists and journalists. We focused on ways we can work together to