Talking about trauma: Findings and opportunities from an analysis of news coverage

Date

2015

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Berkeley Media Studies Group, a project of the Public Health Institute

Abstract

To understand how ACEs appear in the news, we searched for news stories that mentioned adverse childhood experiences from 2008 to 2014 in more than 500 U.S. newspapers, wire services and blogs archived in the Nexis database. We analyzed a random sample to determine how these stories characterized ACEs, why they were in the news, who spoke about ACEs, and how, if at all, they discussed preventing or addressing ACEs.

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Keywords

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), media, news coverage, research

Citation

Nixon, L., Somji, A., Mejia, P., Dorfman, L., & Quintero, F. (2015). Talking about trauma: Findings and opportunities from an analysis of news coverage. Berkeley Media Studies Group, a project of the Public Health Institute.

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