Vital Subjects – Empowering Victims & Victim Service Providers: Navigating Media Pressure and Safeguarding Privacy

Vital Subjects Webinar

Empowering Victims & Victim Service Providers: Navigating Media Pressure and Safeguarding Privacy

Please join us on July 17, 2024, from 11:00am – 12:30PM PT; 2:00–3:30 p.m. ET, for the Vital Subjects Webinar, “Empowering Victims & Victim Service Providers: Navigating Media Pressure and Safeguarding Privacy,” with hosts Krista Flannigan and Anastasiya Bolton. A basic tenet of journalism is covering crime, whether there is a single victim or multiple. This creates a conflict between what news organizations may consider “the public’s right to know” and the traumatized person’s expectation of and right to privacy. Providers of victim services play a critical role in protecting those rights and helping victims cope with the media coverage following a crime and during the trial and verdict. Understanding the media, its goals, internal pressures, training, or lack thereof, and the questions they could ask will help victim service providers better assist the victims whose lives were thrust into the public eye. Register now for this critical discussion.