Flight 1549: An Eerie Miracle
Maria Alvarez
A reporter who covered the 9/11 attacks for the New York Post writes how reporting a flight's emergency landing brought back terrible memories with a positive twist. |
Mumbai's Untold Stories
By Moni Basu
Obscured by headlines of threatened Westerners and "India's 9/11" are ordinary Indians, coping with the all-too-familiar aftermath of November's terrorist attacks.
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Mexico's Journalists Under Siege
By Stan Alcorn
An unprecedented spike in violence is testing the skills and freedoms of the press in North America's youngest democracy.
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Revisiting Matthew Shepard's Murder
By Kerry Drake
An editor at the Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune offers a look behind the scenes at reporting the murder of Matthew Shepard and covering its tenth anniversary. |
Letter from New Orleans
By John Pope
With fish stew and a generator, one Times-Picayune staff writer relates how reporting on Gustav meant reliving Katrina on its anniversary — in the devastation it wreaked and the camaraderie it inspired.
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First Dead Body
By Peter Drought
A cameraman tells a story most journalists neither forget nor openly discuss: the first brush with another's death.
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2008 Ochberg Fellows Announced
The Dart Center has awarded this year's Ochberg Fellowships to nine mid-career journalists dedicated to applying knowledge of emotional trauma to improving coverage of violent events.
Dan Grech, APM, "Marketplace"
Kelly Kennedy, Times News Service
Christina Lamb, Sunday Times, U.K.
Alysa Landry, Farmington Daily Times (Four Corners, N.M.)
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, The Chicago Reporter
John Moore, Getty Images
Hollman Morris, Channel One, “Contravía,” Colombia
Devin Robins, NPR, "News & Notes"
Karyn Spencer, Omaha World-Herald
Jon Stephenson, TV3, New Zealand
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Letter From Tbilisi
By Margarita Akhvlediani
In the conflict between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia, journalists are caught in the middle. To tell the "other" side's story is to risk your life; to not tell it is to risk prejudice hardening into ethnic hatred.
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Kenyan Journalists Face the Aftermath
By Sherry Ricchiardi
The violence that for months wracked East Africa's most stable democracy endangered not only journalistic standards but local journalists themselves. Now they struggle to recover — both as individuals and as watchdogs of a precarious peace.
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2008 DART AWARDS
Introducing the Award Winners
The Dart Center has announced the selection of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and National Public Radio as the winners of the 2008 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. Full coverage, including all the stories that won awards or honorable mentions, is available here.
Event:
Covering Violence Against Women
On Wednesday, April 23rd, The Dart Center held a reception for the winners of the 2008 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma followed by a panel with the award winners: "Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Violence Against Women.". Check back next week for event coverage. |
Video: Keeping It Real
Low crime rates mask an epidemic of violence among urban youth, but how can journalists get this story right? Watch streaming video of a Dart Center discussion at the Columbia School of Journalism with panelists:
• David Meeks, city editor, New Orleans Times-Picayune
• Joseph Rodriguez, photojournalist
• Clarivel Ruiz, Director of Youth Programs, Downtown Community Television Center... |
Video: ‘Points of Entry’
Covering Immigrants and Immigration
Video from a recent Dart Center discussion at the Columbia School of Journalism. Panelists include:
• Nina Bernstein, reporter, The New York Times
• Jacob Massaquoi, Director, African Refuge
• Arlene Morgan, Associate Dean of Prizes and Programs, Columbia Journalism School
• Mirta Ojito, Assistant Professor, Columbia Journalism School, and former reporter at The New York Times, The Miami Herald, and El Nuevo Herald ... |
How Newsrooms Can Prepare
It takes a single phone call, a single alert on a police scanner, a single wire-service bulletin bearing word of catastrophe to upend the
well-ordered chaos of a newsroom. In Minneapolis, it was
the interstate highway collapse ... |
Documentary: Bearing Witness
The burden of bearing witness is borne by journalists around the globe who put themselves on the front line of conflict and tragedy in the course of their work. But what sustains them? How do they deal with trauma? This is subject of a one-hour documentary produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, recently aired on the weekly program Compass ... |
Hidden in Plain Sight
At a recent Dart Center panel at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, four pioneers in reporting the human impact of the Iraq War — photographer Nina Berman and reporters Mark Benjamin, Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman — discussed the challenges of reporting on these veterans. Click here for video from the panel, here for a summary and transcript ...
Interviewing veterans
By Joe Hight
A wounded veteran, mental health experts and journalists offer tips on how to interview soldiers returning from Iraq, the Middle East or Afghanistan ... |
A Victim's View
By Joe Hight
Sarah King Fortney, whose husband died in a plane crash last summer, shares her advice for journalists who cover tragedy ... |
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Big Dart News Brewing
If you've noticed a lull in the action lately on the Dart Center website, rest assured it is not a reflection of what's going on behind the scenes. Among numerous other activities, we've been hard at work on new features for a fully redesigned website. In a few weeks, this space will be more active, useful and user-friendly than ever. Stay tuned. More from the Dart Blog.
(Posted by Stan Alcorn, Tuesday, March 24, 2009) |
 DART CENTER PUBLICATIONS
Free Training for War Reporters
"Reporting War," a training booklet by Dart Fellow Sharon Schmickle, is now available upon request from the Dart Center. Read about the meeting of thirteen journalists that started the project here. To request a free copy of the booklet e-mail info@dartcenter.org. |
Experts Unite on Early Trauma Support
Should journalists and other witnesses of traumatic or violent events receive mandatory counseling or debriefing in the immediate aftermath? No, concludes a major article published in the July 1, 2007, edition of the American Journal of Psychiatry. |
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