NEW GUIDE OFFERS HELP TO JOURNALISTS COVERING CHILD DEATHS

Merrill College's Journalism Center for Children and Families (UMD) Works to Help Reporters Learn Best Practices for Covering Child TragediesCOLLEGE PARK, Md. - When a child dies how should it be reported? Whether it's by abuse or neglect, preventable accidents, gun violence and drugs or alcohol, insensitive coverage starts a drumbeat that can lead to sensationalism or reactionary media coverage that never seems to end. "Covering child deaths is perhaps the most emotionally challenging story a journalist will tell in their careers," says Julie Drizin - the director for the Journalism