Macy |
Covering Substance Abuse and Recovery: A Workshop for Journalists will be held in Ashland on Nov. 15 by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues and Oak Ridge Associated Universities.
Burton |
More details and online registration will be available very soon, but several award-winning speakers who have been leaders in covering these topics in Appalachia and adjoining areas will speak:
- Beth Macy, award-winning author of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, just released in paperback.
- Terry DeMio and Liz Dufour, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists from the Cincinnati Enquirer; DeMio has been the newspaper’s opioid beat reporter for five years, and Dufour is the lead visuals person on the beat and the Pulitzer-winning series, "Seven Days of Heroin."
- Eric Eyre of the Charleston Gazette-Mail, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for revealing opioid distribution patterns in West Virginia.
- Sharon Burton, editor publisher of the Adair County Community Voice in Columbia, a national leader in substance-abuse coverage by small newspapers.
- Kentucky Justice Secretary John Tilley, who is a former legislator, attorney and television journalist.
- Understand the depth and breadth of the problem and how it affects local communities
- Know how to get reliable data and other local information for reporting
- Develop local, state, regional and national sources for stories and story ideas
- Hear reporters explain how they cover the problem and the people affected by it
- Appreciate the role of local news media in reducing the stigma that inhibit local action
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