This workshop examines how story structure can distort disability coverage when reporting falls into legitimacy-trial framing, burden logic, or agency failures. Using tools from Fix the Frame, participants will learn how to spot and correct these patterns while building stories that more accurately reflect lived experience and structural barriers. The session also treats intersectionality as a core reporting practice, showing how race, class, gender, geography, and disability shape what gets covered, how it gets framed, and what is often missed.

What will be covered:

• How to identify legitimacy-trial framing in disability stories
• How burden logic can weaken accuracy and narrative fairness
• How to recognize and correct agency failures in reporting
• Approaches for covering non-visible disability and layered barriers
• How to apply intersectionality as a structural accuracy practice
• How race, class, gender, geography, and disability influence reporting choices

Speaker Bio
Russell Midori is the board chair of Military Veterans in Journalism and a board member of both the Disabled Journalists Association and the Overseas Press Club Foundation. He is a Marine Corps veteran with a background in visual storytelling and news production. He works as a news photographer/editor in New York City and served as a military combat correspondent and public affairs storyteller during his service. He also teaches technical video editing and field production at City College of New York.