Hello everyone,
Over this past year, i've been working on starting a non-profit called
Disability Media Project (dmedia) to address the fair and accurate
reporting of disability issues. We're still defining ourselves but also
have goal by mid june to produce a booklet/brochure on reporting issues and
disability. it's possible i might have the opportunity to work with one or
two local journalism students on this project over the next 3 months. The
first step is to identify what is already out there --
So, I'm asking you for ANY contacts, info, paper, leads, etc. about
anything that has been done before on reporting on disability -- this
includes language (do/don't) style guides, tips, etc. This can be from the
disability or journalism communities.
I do have The Disability Messenger - which was put out by the presidents
committee on employment of people w/disabilities for the Unity 99 conference.
Also, if any of you have something similar from another "under-represented"
issue or group that is good or bad (and why) this too would be helpful.
After collecting what is "already done" we'll go through a process of
deciding the best course of action and then put it back out to the
disability and journalism communities for feedback. (we expect a lot!) Of
course when the booklet is done it will be posted on the web and made
available in other formats.
Thanks for all your help!
Suzanne Levine
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Disability Media Project
P.O. Box 22115, San Francisco, CA 94122-0115
Voice: 415-387-0617 / Fax: 415-387-0583
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Web Site: http://www.dmedia.org
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