Jan Hoffman, staff writer for the New York Times, has reported extensively on adolescents including a recent front-page series on cyberbullying. She discusses her work and what she has learned about reporting on young people. Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, introduces.
This video is from a two-day workshop held at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in October, 2011, made possible by generous funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: "Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence."
Jan Hoffman
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Jan Hoffman is a features reporter for The New York Times, with a long-time focus on adolescents — a subject she has written about for Sunday Styles, Science Times, Metro, and in a recent series about cyberbullying for the paper’s front page. She has also been a columnist for Science Times, a chief contributor to Portraits of Grief, the profiles of the 9/11 victims which were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and a legal affairs reporter for Metro.
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