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

• News Coverage of Violence Against Women, Marian Meyers, Sage publications.

• National Network to End Domestic Violence.s National Media Project . www.nnedv.org