Media

You can:

• Utilize domestic violence advocacy organization as sources whenever covering domestic violence stories.
• Avoid headlines and coverage that implicates victims in their own abuse or death.
• Avoid portraying family violence as “conflict.”
• Always run the statewide hotline number, 800-33-HAVEN, with stories on domestic violence. Your story may be the only way victims in your community learn there is help available.

Resources for Media

• “Covering domestic Violence: A Guide for Journalists and Other Media Professionals,” available at – www.wscadv.org/Resources/index.thm#mg
• Domestic Violence: A Union Issues (a training resource kit for union leaders) – http://store.yahoo.com/fvpfstore/domviolunis.html
• News Coverage of Violence Against Women, Marian Meyers, Sage publications.
• National Network to End Domestic Violence’s National Media Project – www.nnedv.org