Workshop: Harnessing Your Expertise: AAAP Media Training with Reporting on Addiction-Workshop: Harnessing Your Expertise: AAAP Media Training with Reporting on Addiction

Workshop: Harnessing Your Expertise: AAAP Media Training with Reporting on Addiction

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Summary:<br /><br />The video features Ashton Mara, a professor of journalism and executive editor of 100 Days in Appalachia, discussing the Reporting on Addiction project. The project aims to train journalists on reporting addiction using scientific research. Mara emphasizes the need for collaboration between journalists and addiction professionals and provides tips for experts on working effectively with journalists. The importance of building relationships, using person-first language, and addressing stigma in media reporting is highlighted. The video also addresses trust and communication between experts and journalists, emphasizing the need for understanding each other's roles. Ethical considerations in journalism and ways for experts to engage effectively with journalists are discussed, along with the responsibility of both parties to combat stigma and create change. Resources and recommendations for experts to engage with journalists in a productive manner are provided.

Keywords

Ashton Mara

journalism

executive editor

100 Days in Appalachia

Reporting on Addiction

collaboration

addiction professionals

person-first language

media reporting

trust

ethical considerations

stigma

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