When journalist Fadah Jassem was asked to contact "Jihadi John" on social media, she didn't know what to expect. In a Dart Center exclusive, Jassem reflects on her exchanges with these foreign fighters and the challenges of navigating the borderless terrain of social media. "I was searching for explanations and even, perhaps, solutions," she writes. "Given the dangers, social media allowed me to get as close as I could."

At least 31 people were killed and more than 250 were injured in a series of bombing attacks in Brussels on Tuesday, with two explosions at the city's main international airport and a third in a subway station at the city's center. On Sunday, at least 69 people were killed and around 300 were wounded in an apparent suicide blast in a park in Lahore, Pakistan. Please consult the Dart Center's tip sheets and other resources for journalists covering these evolving stories.

On August 26, 2015, Alison Parker, a television reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia, and Adam Ward, Parker’s videographer, were shot and killed on camera by a former colleague. Now Chris Hurst, the evening news anchor for WDBJ and Parker’s boyfriend at the time of her death, asks how American newsrooms could cover gun violence differently.