Interviewing Victims Features
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By Elaine Korry, Kristen Lombardi, and Sacha Pfeiffer
In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence," three experienced journalists talk about what every journalist should know.
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Behind the Story
Apr 18 2011
By John Pope
Ethical issues and common-sense suggestions on how mental health professionals and journalists can collaborate in the coverage of people who have experienced trauma.
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Exemplary Journalism
Apr 6 2011
By Cecilia Ballí
The crossfire of drug-related violence is rendering farming towns along the U.S.-Mexico border virtually uninhabitable. Texas Monthly staff writer Cecilia Balli, a 2010 Dart Center Ochberg Fellow, reports on residents of one border town who live amid escalating terror.
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Links to resources in Japanese and English for journalists covering Japan's March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant crisis. Includes a Q&A with disaster expert Irwin Redlener, M.D., an article on Japanese cultural identity from Gavin Rees, and a comprehensive disaster reporting guide from reporter Yoichi Shimatsu.
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Journalists, researchers and mental health professionals offer advice on how to deal with people caught up in tragic events.
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Behind the Story
Feb 18 2011
By Michael Usher
When a crew from Channel Nine's '60 Minutes' interviewed a family who lost their baby girl and both grandmothers to the Queensland floods, some said they exploited their grief. Correspondent Michael Usher begs to differ.
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As local and national journalists scramble to make sense of a mass shooting that leaves a U.S. Congresswoman grievously wounded and six dead – including a federal judge – resources from the Dart Center's archive offer guidance to reporters in the field and managers in the newsroom.
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By Petra Tabeling and Gavin Rees
A Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum brought experts together in Bonn, Germany in June, 2010 to talk about how best to tell the global story of climate change – and the local one.
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Fellowship News
Dec 13 2010
By Meg Spratt
Journalism students in Arizona and New York trade places, traveling to Manhattan and the U.S.-Mexico border to explore immigrant issues with sensitivity and depth.
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Video Feature
Dec 10 2010
By Stan Alcorn
Journalists interviewing service members returning from war need the standard skills of humility and empathy – but they also need to do their homework. In this video from Dart's Videos on Veterans series, journalists, a clinician and a retired Marine explain how it's done.
