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The items listed below are intended to assist reporters in covering mental health issues.

• Arranging Interviews: To arrange for interviews with or obtain comments from any of our lawyers, policy analysts or experts on a particular issue, or to receive future news releases, please contact Emily McKee at 202-467-5730 x 120 or by email to emilym at bazelon.org.
  
  If you are not a member of the media, please email us to info at bazelon.org.

Media Analyses

• New: Mental Health Reporting, a comprehensive resource for journalists created by the University of Washington School of Social Work, with some focus on Washington State but otherwise of universal relevance.
• The chapters on Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Children's Healthcare Coverage in Covering Health Issues, a reporters' guide published by the Alliance for Health Reform (3/23/09)
• Feeding Stereotypes: An analysis of how the media frames mental health issues, by award-winning journalist and former Harkness Fellow Pattrick Smellie.
  
• Mindless and Deadly— Media hype on mental illness and violence: Writer Phyllis Vine looks at media reporting on violence and mental illness in this article from EXTRA!, a publication of the national media watch group FAIR.