The Irina Project
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    • What We Do
    • About Our Team
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    • Tip-sheets >
      • Considering Cultural Context, Choice, Language, and Agency in Reporting on Sex Trafficking
      • Using Images When Reporting on Human Trafficking
      • Reporting Sex Trafficking: Overcoming Obstacles, Gaining Perspective
      • Tips for Interviewing Survivors
      • Tips for Reporting on Latinx Community and Sex Trafficking
      • U Visas: A Source for Reporting on Human Trafficking
      • How to Use Sex Trafficking Research: 10 Tips for Journalists
    • Language Matters
    • definitions
  • Perspectives
    • Blogs and News
    • Experts' Quick Takes
    • Interviews
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Changing the way we talk about sex trafficking

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We Monitor media representations of sex trafficking

We Advocate for responsible and accurate reporting


We Educate with knowledge, reliable data, and materials
via the web and with professional training

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Our Work

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Our aim is to bring together, online and in newsrooms, journalists with reliable data and knowledgeable sources to broaden and strengthen reporting on sex trafficking.
Our approach is grounded in the research that shows the ways news media ‘frame’ a particular issue can influence the ways in which the public, politicians and other interested parties come to understand and act upon the issue.

Resources

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Useful tips for covering sex trafficking including best practices for interviewing survivors;
Data sets for thinking about the magnitude of trafficking; Abstracts or short essays about peer-reviewed and professional studies related to sex trafficking; Definitions and helpful dos and dont's some common missteps in terms and phrases used in sex trafficking coverage.

Perspectives

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A range of perspectives on trafficking from individuals with deep knowledge of the issue. In blogs and interviews, these experts address current news and debates related to sex trafficking in local, national and global settings, identify challenges in covering the issue and recommend new ways of approaching this important journalistic work.

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About TIP

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TIP is based at the University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media, in Chapel Hill, NC. It is directed by Dr. Barbara Friedman, who co-founded it in 2009 with Dr. Anne Johnston, professor emerita. They gratefully acknowledge the support and encouragement of the Carolina Center for Public Service and Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars, the UNC-CH School of Social Work, and the Carolina Women’s Center.

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The Irina Project
Hussman School of Journalism and Media
UNC-Chapel Hill
CB #3365
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
  • The Irina Project
    • What We Do
    • About Our Team
  • Resources
    • Tip-sheets >
      • Considering Cultural Context, Choice, Language, and Agency in Reporting on Sex Trafficking
      • Using Images When Reporting on Human Trafficking
      • Reporting Sex Trafficking: Overcoming Obstacles, Gaining Perspective
      • Tips for Interviewing Survivors
      • Tips for Reporting on Latinx Community and Sex Trafficking
      • U Visas: A Source for Reporting on Human Trafficking
      • How to Use Sex Trafficking Research: 10 Tips for Journalists
    • Language Matters
    • definitions
  • Perspectives
    • Blogs and News
    • Experts' Quick Takes
    • Interviews
  • Contact Us