Children & Trauma Features
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By Stefanie Friedhoff
In this tipsheet, building on the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence," Stefanie Friedhoff reviews how to navigate the challenges of reporting on youth.
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By Jan Hoffman
In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence," New York Times staff writer Jan Hoffman discusses reporting on intimacy and violence in the lives of adolescents.
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Dart Award Winner
Apr 13 2011
By Joseph Shapiro, Robert Benincasa, Susanne Reber, Kristen Lombardi, Kristin Jones, David Donald, and Gordon Witkin
This series combined far-reaching investigative reporting with powerful personal stories to expose a pattern in which college students found responsible for sexual assaults face little punishment, while their victims receive little help. Originally aired on NPR in February and March, 2010.
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Dart Award Winner
Apr 13 2011
By Kevin Cullen, Jenna Russell, Sarah Schweitzer, Patricia Wen, Bill Greene, Suzanne Kreiter, Aram Boghosian, Kayana Szymczak, Joanne Rathe, Brendan Hoffman, Steven Wilmsen, and Lloyd Young
This series, spurred by the suicide of a Massachusetts teenager, explores the phenomenon of bullying from every angle, including the experiences of victims and the adults and institutions charged with protecting them. Originally published in the Boston Globe throughout 2010.
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Dart Award Honorable Mention
Apr 13 2011
By Cathy Frye, Amy Upshaw, Rick McFarland, Staton Breidenthal, and Jennifer Godwin
The story of a flash flood that killed 20 people — eight of them children — is told in an in-depth, three-part series focusing on the experience of two families. Originally published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in November, 2010.
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Como parte de su trabajo diario, periodistas, fotógrafos, editores y productores deben tener muy en cuenta su responsabilidad de informar la verdad con compasión a la vez que evitar exponer a los niños a traumas adicionales. La guía que sigue es una traducción del recurso "Interviewing Children: Guidelines for Journalists."
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Get permission before interviewing or photographing a child. Set clear ground rules about what is on and off the record. Don't talk down to a child. And don't make promises you can't keep. A Spanish-language version of this tip sheet is available here.
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Into the Fray
Oct 14 2010
By Bruce Shapiro
When treading the fragile landscape of teen suicide, empathic, scientifically grounded reporting can save lives. So why are some journalists getting the bullying and suicide story so wrong?
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Dart Award Winner
Apr 14 2010
By Ben Montgomery, Waveney Ann Moore, Edmund D. Fountain, and Kelley Benham
This six-part series reveals a century of abuse at Florida's oldest reform school in a haunting narrative. Originally published by the St. Petersburg Times between April and December, 2009, it is a winner of the 2010 Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.
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Exemplary Journalism
Mar 5 2010
By Ambar Espinoza
Soldiers don't go into a war zone alone: their families share the experience. A Minnesota Public Radio reporter shares her story and explains the reporting behind it.
