Sandy Hook and Beyond: Panel Videos

Watch our entire slate of panels from the symposium.

Click here to read the Live Blog from the event.

Panel I: Breaking News and Trauma: Patricia Llodra, First Selectwoman, Newtown, CT; Naomi Starobin, News Director, WSHU Public Radio Fairfield, CT; Lt. J. Paul Vance, Chief Spokesman, Connecticut State Police; Brad Clift, Freelance Photojournalist; Moderator: Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center.

  

Panel II: News and Trauma, Survivors Speak: Bill Leukhardt, Reporter, Hartford Courant and step-father of victim (Lauren Rousseau, teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, CT); Moderator: Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma

 

Panel III: Social Media and Tragedy: Andy Carvin, Social Media Strategist, NPR; Charles Dumais, Principal, Newtown High School; Moderator: Emily Bell, Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism. 

 

Panel IV: Going Deeper: Covering Perpetrators, Guns and Community Trauma: Alaine Griffin, Reporter, Hartford Courant; Matthew Kauffman, Investigative Reporter, Hartford Courant; Charles Herrick, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Western Connecticut Health Network; Jim MacMillan, Founder, GunCrisis.org; Moderator: Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.

 

Panel V: Responsible Reporting on Aftermath: Where do we go from here?
Dave Cullen, Journalist and Author, “Columbine”; Kevin Cullen, Columnist, Boston Globe; Candice Kane, Chief Operating Officer, Cure Violence, Chicago; Beth Macy, Reporter, The Roanoke Times; Steven Marans, Professor, Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine; Jacqueline Smith, Managing Editor, News-Times, Danbury, CT; Moderators: Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma; Emily Bell, Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism.