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 experience advocate Latisha Goullaud.
In this 45-minute discussion during National Recovery Month, we explored how trauma-informed, empathy-based approaches to journalism can build trust, reduce harm and foster deeper, more meaningful storytelling about addiction, treatment and recovery.
If you missed the session, would like to watch it again or want to share it with a journalist you know, check it out here:
New Resources
- A digital security toolkit for journalists detailing how to protect themselves and their sources online, including an easy-to-follow checklist, detailed best practices and tool recommendations and tips for interacting with whistleblowers and other at-risk sources.
Digital Security Toolkit📝
In today’s digital climate, journalists must be hyper-vigilant. We must prioritize the protection of our data and identifying information to safeguard our sources, preserve the integrity of our investigations and prevent potential reprisals. Securing communications and information allows journalists to protect the confidentiality of sensitive sources and materials and
Jonathan JK Stoltman
- A trauma-informed and empathy-based reporting toolkit featuring recommendations for interacting with sources, including an easy-to-follow checklist, detailed communication guides and considerations for examining one’s personal bias.
Trauma-informed and Empathy-based Reporting Toolkit📝
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
Jonathan JK Stoltman
- An explainer walking experts through the process of preparing, pitching and writing op-eds to be published by news outlets
Op-Ed Toolkit📝
Journalism plays a vital role in framing and informing discourse; however, most journalists are not trained in the latest addiction science or how that science is implemented through programs on the ground in our communities. These blind spots result in coverage that inadvertently conflicts with or leaves out clinical, research
Jonathan JK Stoltman