Guidelines:

• Interviewing people with disabilities 
  Guidelines for journalists, from MediaWise
• Writing about disabled people
  Guidelines for journalists from GLAD (Greater London Action on Disability)

Articles and reports:

• Road Map for Inclusion: Changing the Face of Disability in Media
  Report by the Ford Foundation, 2019.
• The media have a major role to play in breaking down the stigma surrounding disability
  News release from the European Economic and Social Committee, July 2019.
• 4 key tips for reporting on and writing about people with disabilities
  By Chloe Reichel for Journalism Resource, 26 June 2019.
• Reporting on disability: Guidelines for the media
  Produced by the International Labour Association, May 2015.
• ‘Beat the cheat’: portrayals of disability benefit claimants in print media
  Article by Libby McEnhill & Victoria Byrne, published in the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, June 2014.
• Mock the Weak – The representation of disabled people in the media
  Produced by Independent Living in Scotland project (ILiS), with input from MediaWise. May 2014.
• Reporting disability in the age of austerity: the changing face of media representation of disability and disabled people in the United Kingdom and the creation of new ‘folk devils’
  Article by Emma Briant, Nick Watson & Gregory Philo in Disability & Society, September 2013.
• Disability Handbook
  Second edition of the handbook from the National Union of Journalists, 2012.
• Bad News for Disabled People: How the newspapers are reporting disability
  By Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research and Glasgow Media Unit, in association with Inclusion London, October 2011.
• Media Portrayals of Persons with Disabilities
  Articles from the Media Awareness Network
• NUJ survey shows failure to employ disabled journalists
  Survey of National Union of Journalists’ conducted by the Disabled Members’ Council (DMC), released 1 August 2007
• Disability Handbook
  Handbook from the National Union of Journalists, February 2007
• Report on media literacy of disabled people
  Media Literacy Audit by Ofcom, published on 4 April 2006
• From ‘special’ to substantial
  By Susan LoTempio of The Buffalo News (New York), published by Poynter, 14 March 2006
• The representation and portrayal of people with disabilities on analogue terrestrial television
  Content analysis research report published by Ofcom, 13 December 2005
• Disabling Prejudice: Attitudes towards disability and its portrayal on television
  Report by Jane Sancho on research by the BBC, BSC and ITC, June 2003