This session focuses on language as an editorial accuracy issue, not just a terminology exercise. Drawing from Fix the Frame, the workshop will help participants make more precise decisions about specificity, metaphor, and over-medicalized framing while improving how disability is described in reported pieces. It will also address consent and disclosure in practical newsroom terms, including how to avoid coerced disclosure and how to handle sensitive details responsibly under deadline pressure.

What will be covered:

• Why language choices are central to editorial accuracy
• How to use specificity effectively in disability coverage
• How to avoid misleading metaphor and over-medicalized framing
• Practical guidance on consent and disclosure decisions
• How to avoid coerced disclosure in reporting and editing
• Approaches for handling sensitive details responsibly under deadline

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.