TIP Sheets for Reporting

The Irina Project works with knowledgeable experts to generate TIP sheets (see what we did there?) to provide story ideas, reporting strategies, issue context, interview leads and more. Click on the headlines to read each TIP sheet, which is also downloadable. Please credit the TIP sheet author if you use any of their information and follow up with them as appropriate.

Is there a topic you’d like to see treated to a TIP sheet? Want to create a TIP sheet? Let us know!

Considering Cultural Context, Choice, Language, and Agency in Reporting on Sex Trafficking

by Siobahn Stiles, PhD, Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Studies, Criminal Justice, and Psychology, Huntingdon College

tstiles@hawks.huntingdon.edu

How to Use Sex Trafficking Research: 10 Tips for Journalists

by Alex Trouteaud, Ph.D., Director of Policy and Research, Demand Abolition/Swanee Hunt Alternatives, 2017-2018

@truetoe

Putting the ‘Human’ Into Human Trafficking Reporting: Tips for Interviewing Survivors 

by Minh Dang, Ph.D., Executive Director & Founder, Survivor Alliance

minh@survivoralliance.org, @empwrsurvivors

Reporting Sex Trafficking: Overcoming Obstacles, Gaining Perspective

by J. David McSwane, Investigative Reporter, ProPublica

David.mcswane@propublica.org, @davidmcswane

Tips for Reporting on Latinx Community and Sex Trafficking

by Paul Cuadros, Investigative Reporter/Author, Associate Professor, UNC-CH

cuadros@email.unc.edu

Tips for Using Images When Reporting on Human Trafficking

by Jessa Dillow Crisp, Co-Founder & Executive Director, BridgeHope

jessa@jessacrisp.com

U Visas: A Source for Reporting on Human Trafficking

by Liz Schlemmer, TIP Project Manager, 2016-2017

lizschlemmer@gmail.com