Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Features

• From the Academy

  Children and Media Coverage of Trauma

  By Christina Cantrell and Elana Newman

  An overview of current research on the short- and long-term impacts of media coverage of tragedy on children, as well as aggravating risk factors and suggestions for future research.

• Training Reports

  Repercussions of a Tragedy

  

  By Jose Jaime "Nonoy" Espina

  Almost a year after 32 media workers were massacred along with scores of others in Mindanao, Filipino journalists face the consequences of doing dangerous work in an environment of chronic stress. A recent training conducted by Dart Centre Australasia focused on peer support.

• In Depth

  Beyond Bloody Sunday

  

  In the wake of a landmark report about Bloody Sunday, one journalist's reflections on Northern Ireland's past and future.

• Event Report

  Witnessing the Human Cost of Climate Change

  

  By Petra Tabeling and Gavin Rees

  At the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum conference June 21-23 in Bonn, Germany, more than 1500 delegates from 95 countries discussed the challenges of reporting climate change. A Dart Centre Europe panel looked at the human consequences of environmental disaster.

• Event Transcript

  Close to Home: Reporting Local Disasters

  At the Deutsche Welle Global Media conference in Bonn June 21-23, a Dart Centre Europe-moderated panel, "Witnessing the Human Cost of Climate Change," explored what it takes for local journalists to report on environmental disasters when they have hit their own communities.  Part of that discussion focussed on how these reporters can leverage their own local knowledge and empathy to correct unsubstantiated rumour and misreporting. Here is an edited transcript of that section.

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