Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Today is the second day of a conference the Dart Center is co-hosting (along with the Open Society Institute and the Fund for Independence in Journalism) at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism: Enlarging the Spaces for Investigative Journalism: Countering Threats, Supporting Innovations You can watch the panels online at BlogTalkRadio, and read background materials, briefings from the panelists and almost-live blogging coverage of the panels themselves the official conference website. More »

Turn on C-SPAN2 tonight at 7 p.m. (EST) and watch 2005 Ochberg Fellow Mike Walter's documentary "Breaking News, Breaking Down."

The film grew out of a 2007 Dart Society project called Target: New Orleans that sent reporters to the Gulf Coast to lend a hand in post-Katrina reconstruction. The film interweaves this trip with reporters speaking candidly about the hardest stories they've covered and how, as Walter says, "breaking news can break you down."

If you don't have C-SPAN2 on TV, don't worry; you can watch the live stream online. More »

This year's Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting went to Karyn Spencer, a 2008 Ochberg Fellow, for her work on a two-week series in the Omaha World-Herald, exposing Nebraska's bungled coroner system. Rocky Mountain News has the announcement here. More »