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Resources: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence

The Dart Center presents videos, tipsheets and other resources from a two-day workshop in New York City to help journalists cover abuse within intimate relationships. Made possible by generous funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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  • The Big Map: Outlining Narratives

    Two sets of Dart Award-winning writers and editors describe how they tackled their complicated stories, and reveal a common secret weapon: a (large) paper outline.

  • The Hurt In Their Eyes

    St. Petersburg Times photographer Edmund Fountain talks about his Dart Award-winning portraits of men whose lives are still shaped, up to 50 years later, by the brutal abuse they suffered at the Florida School for Boys.

  • Workshop: Reporting on Youth Violence

    Even as crime rates hit record lows in cities across the country, gun homicides, gang violence and dating abuse among young people remain stunningly high. The Dart Center presents a two-day workshop to help journalists and news organizations in the Philadelphia area cover this critical public health issue.

  • Surviving 9/11

    This tenth anniversary of the attacks on 9/11, for all its potential to reawaken a painful past, also moves personal loss into collective historical memory. That can be a painful process but also offers a moment for reflection and the creation of new meanings.

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  • Mon, 12/12/2011 - 7:33pm

    ASPAC Journalism Fellows Defend Threatened Colleague

    On December 2, Afnan Khan was driving home from his job as senior reporter at the Daily Times in Lahore Pakistan when a Land Cruiser pulled across his path on a deserted road. Two gunmen leapt out, took aim and ordered him from his car.  More »

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  • Thu, 11/03/2011 - 8:17am

    Panel Audio: Covering Violence and Tragedy

    Earlier in October, Dart Center Executive Director Bruce Shapiro led a panel discussion at Columbia Journalism School on covering violence and tragedy, part of the school's All-Class Lecture series for graduate journalism students. The panel featured Marianne McCune, a reporter for WNYC and a Columbia j-school alum; and Rob Perez, 2009 Dart Award winner and reporter for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. More »

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  • Sun, 10/16/2011 - 9:26pm

    Northern Ireland Conference Advises Dealing with "Act Two"

    Ten years after the death of Martin O’Hagan, the only journalist killed in Northern Ireland's three-decade civil conflict, the National Union of Journalists held a conference in Belfast on September 30 exploring the safety issues and pressures that arise when covering sectarian violence. As the NUJ's Freelance reports, the theme was trauma and the effects of trauma that go beyond the front line. More »

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  • Wed, 09/07/2011 - 5:53am

    Dart Center Marks September 11 Anniversary With Webinar, Talks

    Over the next week the Dart Center is sponsoring a series of programs marking the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. More »

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