Women and Children's Issues: Is Media Doing Enough
Emotional news: journalists, trauma and audiences
Seminar: 'The death knock' - the ethics of reporting grief and tragedy
Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany
This year's winners of the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma: The New York Times, for “Punched Out: The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer," and WNYC Radio, for its documentary “Living 9/11.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Dart Center has launched a new online library of Spanish-language resources for journalists. This webpage serves as a gateway to a wide range of Spanish-language reporting guides, tipsheets and videos, aimed at working journalists, journalism educators and students. More »
Psychiatrists debate how to label the wounds of war. More »
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 »
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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