How Media Help Change Conversation on Mental Health

FILE - Freelance reporter Christine Herman, center, speaks at a meeting of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sept. 18, 2019. FILE - Rosalynn Carter, shown here speaking at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, on Nov. 5, 2019, was an early advocate of improved media coverage of mental illness.

At a time when growing numbers of young Americans are diagnosed with mental health conditions, media are looking at ways to cover the issue more responsibly.