Newsrooms Face Challenge Amid Surge of Graphic Imagery
In an article for Poynter this week, Katie Hawkins-Gaar considers the mental health challenges faced by journalists tasked with watching and vetting graphic user-generated content. She also examines...
View ArticleSolutions Journalism Network Launches Comprehensive Toolkit
The Solutions Journalism Network has released a 48-page guide to encourage rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. Designed for journalists already familiar with traditional reporting...
View ArticleIncidencia del estrés en la labor periodística es investigada por científicos
Este artículo fue publicado originalmente en Ética Segura.Las consecuencias del cubrimiento de tragedias, las precarias condiciones laborales y hasta el acoso sexual en el gremio periodístico están...
View ArticlePeter Greste Shares Strategies for Coping in Confinement
Al-Jazeera correspondent Peter Greste spent 400 days in an Egyptian prison. Arrested in 2013 along with two colleagues, Greste was tried on charges that included spreading false news and aiding the...
View ArticleGroundTruth Project Launches Field Guide for Correspondents
The GroundTruth Project has released a 61 page guide to encourage safe on-site reporting in all corners of the world. The 2015 edition of "GroundTruth: A Field Guide for Correspondents" features a call...
View ArticleDart, Digital First Media Collaborate on Peer Support Program
About a year ago, the Dart Center partnered with Digital First Media and set something in motion: An effort at a company-wide peer-support program for journalists who cover stories of trauma and...
View ArticleIn Aftermath of Cyclone Pam, Resources for Journalists
A cyclone ravaged the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu early on Saturday, killing at least 24 people and displacing upwards of 3,000, according to the United Nations. The category five tropical storm...
View ArticleViolence Against Women Reaches Alarming Rates
More than one in three women worldwide say they have experienced physical violence in their lifetime, according to a staggering new report presented to the United Nations General Assembly last week....
View ArticleSafety for Freelance Journalists: Two Tribes Come Together
This piece was originally published by the BBC College of Journalism.Journalists who work regularly in hostile environments have traditionally belonged to one of two distinct camps. On one side are the...
View ArticleFellow and Award Nominee Team Up
Ochberg Fellow Dave Philipps and Dart Award Honorable Mention recipient Thomas James Brennan co-wrote a front page article for the New York Times about U.S. veterans, disenchanted with civilian life,...
View ArticleReview Calls Disputed Rolling Stone Campus Rape Story Case of ‘Journalistic...
A four-month independent review of a Rolling Stone article about a brutal gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity has concluded the magazine failed in the “reporting, editing, editorial...
View ArticleAmerican University & Pulitzer Center Host Discussions on Freelance Safety
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and American University recently teamed up to sponsor two panel discussions on the dangers facing freelance journalists working in hostile environments...
View ArticleStudy Sheds Light on Psychological Effects of Covering Trauma
In the aftermath of the 2011 Utoya shooting massacre in Norway, journalist and researcher Trond Idås teamed with researcher Klas Backholm on a study that found that journalists who felt that their...
View ArticleFamilies of Mass Shooting Victims Ask Media Not to Name Killers
Family members of those killed in some of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history have issued a challenge to 150 media executives nationwide, urging them to change the way they report on...
View ArticleMust-see Multimedia Project Depicts Violence in Central African Republic
At the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, the Dart Center will co-sponsor the New York City premiere of the multimedia project, The Unravelling. Afterwards, Human Rights Watch Emergencies director Peter...
View ArticleUN Adopts Resolution on Protection of Journalists in Conflicts
The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution last week on the protection of media professionals in conflict zones. The measure urges governments and armed groups alike to take...
View ArticleDart Research Director Gives Ted Talk on Trauma-Aware Journalism
In a recent TedX talk at the University of Tulsa, Dart Research Director Elana Newman offered perspective on the important role journalists can play in saving lives during a tragedy, mitigating...
View ArticleDart, Digital First Media’s Northeast Properties Kick Off Peer Support Program
Nine more journalists joined Digital First Media’s peer-support efforts at a seminar June 3 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, led by Dart’s Bruce Shapiro and Elana Newman.The seminar came a few weeks after...
View ArticleOSCE Kicks Off Conference on Journalist Safety, Press Freedom & Pluralism in...
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe kicked off its two-day conference on journalist safety, media freedom and pluralism in times of conflict. The event, taking place in Vienna, aims...
View ArticleIRE Audio: Dart Showcase Panel on Sexual Assault Investigations
At the 2015 Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference in Philadelphia, the Dart Center sponsored the showcase panel, "Sexual Assault Investigations: Empathy, Accuracy & Transparency,"...
View ArticleSwiss Research Foundation Announces New Science Writers Fellowship in Zurich
The Jacobs Foundation has announced a new five-day journalism fellowship aimed at advancing public understanding of research in the fields of psychology and youth development. Five science and/or...
View ArticleCharleston Reporters Tell National Story Of Local Violence
In a recent story on NPR's All Things Considered, Dart's Executive Director Bruce Shapiro was featured alongside reporters from The Post & Courier on how to cover high-profile, violent events for a...
View ArticleDart Centre Europe Hosts Workshop on Interviewing Refugees
At the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum last month, Dart Centre Europe led a workshop that focused on the skills needed to report effectively on refugees across the globe. The panel featured...
View ArticleMexican Photojournalist Found Dead in Capital
Rubén Espinosa, who worked for the investigative magazine Proceso, was found dead, along with four other people, in the Mexico capital of D.F. Espinosa, whose body was bound and tortured, was the...
View ArticleRory Peck Trust & CPJ Release Media Safety Guide for Syrian Journalists
Today the Rory Peck Trust and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a new Arabic-language safety resource for Syrian journalists working in the country or on its borders.The online...
View ArticleIn Pennsylvania, a Trauma Journalism Movement is Taking its First Steps
Toward the end of the day, Frank Ochberg was thinking out loud: Maybe, he told a group of journalists, we’re starting a trauma journalism movement here in Pennsylvania.More than 20 journalists — from...
View ArticleOchberg Fellow & Trauma Psychologist to Discuss Toll of War on Journalists
On September 16, former Middle East correspondent Steve Hindy will be joined by neuropsychiatrist Anthony Feinstein, author of "Journalists Under Fire," and Ochberg Fellow Phil Zabriskie, author of...
View ArticleBlack Journalists Reflect on Covering Race, Policing and Death
In the year since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, NPR's Gene Demby, like many of his black colleagues, has reported tirelessly on race and policing. In a 4,000 word piece for NPR's...
View ArticleIJNet Releases Journalism Safety Toolkit
The International Journalists' Network has released a new journalism safety toolkit featuring tips and resources from the Dart Center and our colleagues at the Committee to Protect Journalists, the...
View ArticleTV Reporter & Cameraman Killed During Live Broadcast
A reporter and cameraman with WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia,were shot and killed during a live interview Wednesday. The television station confirmed that Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, were the...
View Article9/11 Tribute Center Launches Exhibit on Covering Trauma
The 9/11 Tribute Center has launched an online exhibit featuring 40 multimedia stories of print, radio, television and online news reporters and producers who covered the September 11 terrorist attack...
View ArticleCarter Center Releases Guide for Reporting on Behavioral Health
The Carter Center Mental Health Program today launched a media guide aimed at improving reporting on behavioral health, and decreasing discrimination and stereotypes within news coverage. The 12-page...
View ArticleViolence Against Journalists Escalate in Nepal
Amid increased political unrest, attacks against journalists are on the rise in Nepal, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.In recent weeks dozens of people have been killed in violent...
View ArticleDart Hosts Mindfulness Training for Journalists
On September 10, the Dart Center hosted a special half-day workshop on mindfulness practice, led by teachers from the monastic community founded by poet, author and activist Thich Nhat Hanh.More than...
View ArticleMemorial Honors Australian War Correspondents, Raises Questions
Australia formally recognised the contribution of war correspondents to our democratic tradition this week, with the unveiling of a memorial in the sculpture garden of the Australian War Memorial. It...
View ArticleUN Launches Virtual Reality Film on Syrian War
The United Nations, in collaboration with Samsung and Oculus, has launched a journalism project that uses virtual reality to cover the war in Syria.Clouds Over Sidra, the first film to be shot in...
View ArticleOregon Community College Shooting: Resources for Journalists
A gunman killed ten people and injured seven at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, law enforcement officials said today. The campus remains on lockdown.The college is in Roseburg, a small town in...
View ArticleHandling Graphic Content on the Social Web
This summer saw the on-camera slayings of two TV journalists in Virginia, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, and the photo of a young Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi, washed up dead on a Turkish beach. This imagery...
View ArticleA Skeptic's Guide to Media Coverage of Mass Shootings
Below is an excerpt from an article written by Dave Cullen's for The New Republic:Two years ago, and a few days after Aaron Alexis killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard in D.C., Alex Goldman of...
View ArticleReuters to Cover Costs for Hostile Environment Training
Thomson Reuters will cover the costs for up to fourteen freelance journalists to attend a Hostile Environment Training course run by Hawthorne Proactive from November 22 - 27 in Belfast, Northern...
View ArticleDart to Deliver Trauma Preparedness Program for Cayman Media
Award-winning journalists, disaster experts, mental health practitioners, and survivor advocates will gather on October 6 to discuss the ethics and craft of covering trauma news during a one-day...
View ArticleYork Daily Record/Sunday News wins Public Service Award
The York Daily Record/Sunday News has been awarded the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Foundation’s Public Service Award for leading the way in its community, in Pennsylvania and throughout the...
View ArticleDart Hosts "Light of the World" Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander
Reading from her memoir, The Light of The World, Elizabeth Alexander began with a steady voice, standing proudly in front of the painting projected on the wall behind her. It was the same painting by...
View ArticleSwiss Research Foundation Announces Inaugural Fellows
The Jacobs Foundation has selected five outstanding science and health policy reporters to take part in a weeklong fellowship aimed at advancing public understanding of research in the fields of...
View ArticleBBC Develops Peer Support Network
For Brenda Griffiths, BBC Arabic’s former deputy editor, Newsgathering, the decision to join the BBC’s new trauma support network sprang from her experiences of covering the bloody 1994 Rwandan crisis:...
View ArticleNew PTSD Guide for First Responders
A group of Australian physicians have created national guidelines to better diagnose and treat post traumatic stress disorder in paramedics, police officers and firefighters.The research team of nine...
View ArticleTalking Trauma in the Newsroom at ABC
Kala Lampard has worked as a news and current affairs editor at the ABC for 12 years. It’s a job she finds immensely fulfilling, but earlier this year she wondered whether she might need a change....
View ArticleUNESCO Publishes Recommendations for Global Source Protection
As part of events yesterday marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, UNESCO and WAN-IFRA published an excerpt from their global study on the protection of...
View ArticleRory Peck Trust Announces 2015 Award Winners
The Rory Peck Trust honored the work of four freelance cameramen and camerawomen from northern Iraq, Pakistan and Syria at its 20th anniversary awards event Wednesday evening. The Rory Peck Award for...
View ArticleSupport the Dart Center on #GivingTuesday
The year-end holidays mark a season of joy, but this December our holiday hopes clash with lingering shock at recent events in Paris, Beirut, Colorado Springs, Bamako, Tel Aviv and beyond.As you...
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