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Does Your Reporting Pass The Tyler Test
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Why do I need The Tyler Test?
If you are reporting on overdoses and miss the opportunity to include public health and safety information, your story fails The Tyler Test.
It’s that simple.
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If the experts at AP, “argue that media can play a critical role in showing that suicide is not inevitable,” then I’d like to argue...that the media play a more critical role in showing that overdoses are not inevitable either.
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Incredible effort has been made to shift perspective on how we report on suicide. In place of a definitive resource dedicated to reporting on overdoses as a matter of public health, [The Tyler Test] offers three ways anyone reporting on overdoses can improve how they frame any story.
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