Emotional news: journalists, trauma and audiences
Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: "Silenced Voices"
Dart Center Academic Fellows Program
2012 Dart Award Winners Named
This year's winners of the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma: The New York Times, for the series “Punched Out: The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer," and WNYC Radio, for its documentary “Living 9/11.” Judges also named three Honorable Mentions and seven finalists. The Dart Awards recognize reporting that portrays traumatic events with accuracy, insight and sensitivity while illuminating the effects of violence and tragedy on victims’ lives.
Features
"Generation Iraq" Video Now Available
Watch a conversation, held at Columbia University on April 4, 2012, among five acclaimed reporters and photographers who have been shaped by the Iraq war — and whose words and images have defined the war and its ongoing reverberations in Iraq and in the U.S.
Ochberg Fellowships Go Global!
The Dart Center invites midcareer journalists to apply for the 2012 Ochberg Fellowship Program. For the first time the Fellowship is truly global, welcoming applications from midcareer journalists worldwide.
Classroom Innovators Awarded 2012 Dart Academic Fellowships
Fourteen journalism educators from six countries will gather at Columbia University for seminars and discussions on understanding emotional trauma and incorporating responsible coverage of tragedy into the curriculum.
Resources: Covering Youth Violence
The Dart Center presents videos, tipsheets and other resources from a two-day workshop in Philadelphia to help journalists cover violence among youth. Made possible by generous funding from the Thomas Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health, with additional support from the Stoneleigh Foundation.
Dart Blog
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Wed, 05/09/2012 - 1:18pm
Traumatic Stress: Injury or Disorder?
Psychiatrists debate how to label the wounds of war. More »
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Mon, 04/16/2012 - 2:46pm
Fellows Scoop Up Pulitzers
Congratulations to Dart Center Ochberg Fellows David Wood of the Huffington Post and Susan Snyder of the Philadelphia Inquirer, just awarded 2012 Pulitzer Prizes. More »
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Wed, 04/04/2012 - 5:50am
A Twister's Path
With broad swaths of Dallas-Forth Worth cleaning up from more than a dozen tornados, weather experts predict that this spring could bring an above-average onslaught of twisters in the U.S. The Dart Center has an extensive array of resources for reporting on the aftermath of tornados as well as other natural disasters.
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Tue, 02/28/2012 - 7:03am
What's Behind School Shootings
With three dead and two wounded at a high school in Chardon, Ohio, attention is once again turning to how and why school shootings occur and what can be done about them.
Frank Ochberg, M.D., the Dart Center’s chair emeritus, explores why school shootings are more frequent in the the U.S. than in other nations for CNN.com. Many resources for reporters covering school shootings are available here at DartCenter.org. More »
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