For Educators:

Your journalism students may have to cover some of the toughest stories imaginable. To help you prepare them, this page provides teaching tips, tools and curriculum ideas from experienced journalists and educators.

Academic Exercises

Covering Campus Suicide

A three-part curriculum to help prepare journalism students for the difficult process of covering suicide on or near a college campus.

Programs

  • Fellowships

    The Ochberg, Asia and Academic Fellowship programs.

  • Awards

    The Dart Awards honor excellence in reporting violence and tragedy.

  • Publications

    Guidebooks and DVDs on best practices in covering trauma.

  • Training

    Specialized training and seminars for journalists and newsrooms.

Features

  • Announcement

    Evening Conversation: Witness to an Extreme Century

    On September 14, 2011, at the Columbia Journalism School in New York City, the Dart Center will host an evening event with renowned psychiatrist and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton.

  • Tip Sheet

    Thirteen Tips for Interviewing Veterans

    Ochberg Fellow Kelly Kennedy runs through things to remember when covering returning service members.

  • Announcement

    Border Journalism Educators Form Coalition

    Journalism educators at campuses near the U.S.-Mexico border have teamed up to create the Border Journalism Network (BJN)/La Red de Periodismo de la Frontera.

  • Fellowship News

    Beyond the Border

    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.

  • In Depth

    Beyond the Border: The Teachers' View

    Yvonne Latty of New York University and Celeste González de Bustamante at the University of Arizona developed an innovative way to journalism students hands-on experience covering immigrant issues. Here's how they did it.

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