Resources for Training
Early Childhood Reporting Institute Series
For journalists around the world, children are often at the forefront of reporting, on beats ranging from education and crime to refugees, conflict and international public health. Quite simply, children are the news - whether as the subjects of stories, the targets of social policies, or the victims of family violence, natural disaster, or war. Yet too often, reporting overlooks crucial innovations in the scientific understanding of early childhood, the impact of trauma on developing minds and the policies that promote resilience and growth in the face of violence, stress and upheaval.
Leading Media Journal Highlights Crisis Zones Reporting Course
The Dart Center's annual four-day crisis zones reporting course and its lead instructor, Judith Matloff, are featured in Das Medienmagazin Journalist.
Applications Now Open for 2018 Age Boom Academy
The Age Boom Academy is now accepting applications for its annual three-day workshop for journalists. This year's Academy, May 31 - June 2, will focus on the impacts of new technology on an aging workforce, and will feature leading experts in journalism, science and economics.
Early Childhood Experience & the Developing Brain
In March 2017, the Dart Center organized a four-day reporting institute on covering early childhood development for 45 journalists from 26 countries at Columbia Journalism School in New York City.
Covering Gun Violence
In February 2017, the Dart Center organized a two-day workshop on covering gun violence for 35 journalists at WBEZ in Chicago.
Summary: Early Childhood Institute
The Dart Center is offering a four-day reporting institute for international journalists on early childhood experience and the developing brain, March 9-12, 2017 at Columbia Journalism School in New York City. The application deadline has passed.
Reporting Resources: Gun Violence
Midwest Reporting Institute on Covering Gun Violence
The Dart Center offered a two-day reporting institute on covering gun violence for journalists reporting in the Midwest, February 10 and 11 in Chicago, Illinois. A select number of institute participants will be awarded three to six month reporting fellowships for 2017.
Free PTSD Help for Journalists in Distress Now Available
An innovative free resource is now available to journalists worldwide who have experienced distress on the job. The Traumatic Stress Clinic at The University of New South Wales, has developed a new program for current and former journalists offering assessment, treatment and education concerning possible posttraumatic stress disorder and related psychological injury.