Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

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Friday, June 15, 8:30-9:30am

Speakers: 2012 Dart Award winner, John Branch, The New York Times; Megan Chuchmach, ABC News, Tom Farrey, ESPN; Miles Moffeit. The Dallas Morning News and past Dart Ochberg Fellow.

To view the full IRE conference program, go to the official website.

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Saturday, June 16, 2:30-3:30pm

Speakers: Susan Greene, Independent Journalist and past Dart Ochberg Fellow; Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, Hoy and President, Dart Society; Wendy Halloran, KPNX-Phoenix; Cindy Chang, The Times-Picayune

To view the full IRE conference program, go to the official website.

Is it ethically acceptable to "death-knock" at a grieving family's door? If so, can it be done sensitively and in the interest of the bereaved, as well as the wider public?

These questions have been given new urgency by the ongoing Leveson Inquiry: it has heard powerful evidence from the Dowler, McCann and Watson families, who have all dealt with the pressures of press attention amid traumatic circumstances.

This Dart Center seminar will bring together journalists, filmmakers and researchers to discuss the future of the death knock post-Leveson. Dr Sallyanne Duncan, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and Jackie Newton, Liverpool John Moores University, will introduce their research in this area, which examines bereaved families' varying responses to news media intrusion.

Their research has found that many encounters between journalists and the newsworthy bereaved are anticipated and positive, particularly in the regions.

This is the fourth in a series of practical discussions hosted by Dart Centre Europe, meeting informally over lunch, for journalists and filmmakers interested in fresh approaches to reporting on violence and trauma. The practice-based conversation will help to inform the Dart Centre's approach to supporting journalists and media workers who cover trauma and violence.

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12:30pm-2:00pm

Dart Centre Europe
48 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8LT
Entrance around the corner on Baldwin Gardens.
Nearest tube: Chancery Lane

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Lunch is provided.

Places are limited and so please RSVP via email to judith.townend@dartcentre.org to reserve a seat.

Please notify us of any dietary requirements.

The panel discussion "Failing Institutions or Backbone Professionalism? The Quality of Journalism Education in Developing Countries" will examine questions such as whether to strengthen institutions or build up new ones - which concept should global stakeholders pursue for formal education in the media sector? How can Africa’s academic media education institutions be improved? How can the quality of formal education in media professions be enhanced? Prof. Stephen Jukes Dean of the Media School at Bournemouth University will be on the panel along with Prof. Guy Berger, UNESCO, Prof. Dr. Christoph Schmidt, DW Akademie, Nazeer Aziz Ladhani, Aga Khan Univeristy, Mwikali Muthiani, Nation Group, Ashaf Mansour, Cairo German University.

The Dart Center co-sponsors a screening of "Silenced Voices," as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. The film tells the story of Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor-in-chief of The Morning Leader, who was gunned down by eight men in broad daylight in the capital, Colombo, and his newlywed and now widowed wife, Sonali Samarasinghe, who had to arrange his funeral only days after the wedding. As a lawyer and journalist, Samarasinghe worked closely with Wickrematunge, and the government forced her to leave the country not long after his killing. Since that time, Samarasinghe has been fighting for justice from her base in New York.

For more information see the official website.

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Film Society of Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theater
W. 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam
New York, NY

Screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Beate Arnestad and film subject Sonali Samarasinghe

The Dart Center co-sponsors a screening of "Silenced Voices," as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. The film tells the story of Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor-in-chief of The Morning Leader, who was gunned down by eight men in broad daylight in the capital, Colombo, and his newlywed and now widowed wife, Sonali Samarasinghe, who had to arrange his funeral only days after the wedding. As a lawyer and journalist, Samarasinghe worked closely with Wickrematunge, and the government forced her to leave the country not long after his killing. Since that time, Samarasinghe has been fighting for justice from her base in New York.

For more information see the official website.

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Film Society of Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theater
W. 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam
New York, NY

Screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Beate Arnestad and film subject Sonali Samarasinghe

Journalism educators from North America, Australia and Great Britain meet at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism June 27-30 for the third annual Dart Academic Fellowship program.

The fellowship provides intensive training on teaching accurate, ethical and sensitive coverage of tragedy.

The Dart Center co-sponsors a screening of "Silenced Voices," as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. The film tells the story of Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor-in-chief of The Morning Leader, who was gunned down by eight men in broad daylight in the capital, Colombo, and his newlywed and now widowed wife, Sonali Samarasinghe, who had to arrange his funeral only days after the wedding. As a lawyer and journalist, Samarasinghe worked closely with Wickrematunge, and the government forced her to leave the country not long after his killing. Since that time, Samarasinghe has been fighting for justice from her base in New York.

For more information see the official website.

Details

Film Society of Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theater
W. 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam
New York, NY

Screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Beate Arnestad and film subject Sonali Samarasinghe