Domestic Violence Features

  • Tip Sheet

    Jan 19 2012

    The Basics: What Every Reporter Needs to Know about IPV

    In this tipsheet building on the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence," Stefanie Friedhoff reviews essential background for reporting on IPV.

  • Tip Sheet

    Jan 19 2012

    The Legwork: Where to Look, What Questions to Ask

    In this tipsheet building the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence," Stefanie Friedhoff reviews best practices for reporting.

  • Announcement

    Jan 19 2012

    Resources: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence

    Photo: Jeff Widener / The Honolulu Advertiser: 
Breeanna Aiona-Aka, 16, was  ...

    The Dart Center presents videos, tipsheets and other resources from a two-day workshop in New York City to help journalists cover abuse within intimate relationships. Made possible by generous funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

  • Tip Sheet

    Jan 19 2012

    The Product: Writing With Insight, Accuracy and Context

    In this tipsheet building on the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence," Stefanie Friedhoff advises reporters on writing more accurate and effective stories.

  • Event Video

    Jan 17 2012

    Four Approaches to Understanding IPV

    In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence," four experts frame intimate partner violence socially, historically, culturally and from a public health perspective.

  • Event Video

    Jan 17 2012

    Conversation: 30 Years Covering IPV

    In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence," two pioneers in journalism on intimate partner violence discuss their careers. 

  • Event Video

    Jan 17 2012

    IPV and Special Populations

    In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence," three experts talk about intimate partner violence in uniquely vulnerable teen, immigrant, refugee and LGBT communities.

  • From the Academy

    Aug 23 2010

    Word Choice Crucial When Reporting Sexual Violence

    When media reports sensationalize sexual violence or attribute violent crimes to “lovers’ quarrels,” neither victims nor society are well-served. Researchers at an American Psychological Association annual meeting explored why.

  • Video Feature

    Jan 28 2010

    Telling the Hardest Stories

    Photo: Jeff Widener / The Honolulu Advertiser: 
The life of Breeanna Aiona-A ...

    Winners and judges of the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma break down the process behind  three exemplary stories.

  • Event Video

    May 12 2009

    The Craft of Trauma Journalism

    
As Plain Dealer features editor Debbie Van Tassel listens, PRI reporter Jeb Sharp describes  ...

    Winners of the 2009 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma discuss journalistic craft and answer questions in a panel discussion at Columbia University.