Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Gary Tippet is a senior writer for The Age in Melbourne, Australia. He was the first Australian to be awarded an Ochberg Fellowship, in the year 2004.

Aaron Retica is chief of research for The New York Times Magazine.

Alex Lupis attended the RUJ conference and was a panelist during the “Journalists in Danger” discussion. Lupis is a former researcher at the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists and is currently working for the RUJ in Moscow on a fellowship funded by Alfa Bank.

Alexander McFarlane is professor of psychiatry at the University of Adelaide in Australia. He is a recognised international expert in the field of post-traumatic stress disorder and is a past president of both the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Allan Little is a correspondent for the BBC.

Allen Detrich is a photographer at the Pittsburg Post-Gazette.

Ambar Espinoza is a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio.

Amy Walters is a field producer for NPR’s national desk based in Los Angeles. She has spent her entire professional career at NPR, initially as an intern for the network’s Middle East bureau. Since then, she has worked on almost every NPR news magazine including a two-year stint with “All Things Considered.” There she was part of the show’s award-winning coverage of September 11, 2001.

Andrew Innerarity is a photographer for the Houston Chronicle (Houston, TX).

Angela Carey is the editor of the Ballarat Courier.

Angela Peterson, metro picture editor, joined the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2003. As metro picture editor her duties include the planning and development of the three metro zones. Prior to joining the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel she spent 20 years at the Orlando Sentinel as a staff photographer for 18 years and two years as picture editor for the features and business section.

Anh Do is a reporter for the Orange County Register.

Ann DeFrange is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Ann LoLordo is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun.

Dr. Anne Eyre is a sociologist specializing in trauma and disaster management.

Anne Hawke has traveled throughout the United States and across the globe to produce and report stories for NPR's National Desk.  She produced two prize-winning stories by Daniel Zwerdling, each of which prompted the federal government to make swift policy changes: a December 2006 investigation on Iraq veterans suffering mental anguish, which won the George Foster Peabody Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and a November 2005 series on abuse of immigration detainees, which won the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award.

Anupama Narayanswamy received a master’s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and was an intern with the Center for Public Integrity in Washington D.C.

Arlene Notoro Morgan is associate dean of prizes and programs at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

A professional journalist since 1990, Arnessa M. Garrett, 35, began her career as an intern at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.

She attended Tulane University and was named a Truman Scholar in 1990. She spent her junior year of college at the Institut d’etudes politiques in Paris.

A longtime reporter and editor for The Baltimore Sun, Isaacs is the author of the books Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia and Vietnam Shadows. Since the mid-1990s, Isaacs has conducted training programs for journalists in various places, including several former Soviet republics, the Balkans, and a number of countries in Southeast Asia. He is a member of the Dart Center advisory council.

Audrey Lott Watkins was a member of the Jonesboro Sun news team that was named a finalist in the 1999 Pulitzer Prize competition for coverage of the March 1998 shooting at Westside Middle School near Jonesboro, Ark. She lives in Jonesboro with her husband and two children and is currently pursuing a master's degree in communications at Arkansas State University.

Barbara A. Walsh is a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter working on special projects for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. Walsh was one of two principal reporters at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, who worked on a yearlong series about Willie Horton Jr., a convicted killer and furlough escapee whose crimes drew attention to the flawed Massachusetts prison system. The series won a 1988 Pulitzer Prize.

Becky Saunders is a researcher for the National Family and Parenting Institute. She first became involved with the Tavistock Institute whilst undertaking an MA in psychoanalytic observational studies. More recently, she has been part of Tavistock's policy seminars steering group.

Ben Montgomery is an enterprise reporter for the St. Petersburg Times.

Beth Fertig has been covering city politics, education, and social services for WNYC News since 1995. Her reporting honors include the 2001 Columbia DuPont Silver Baton Journalism Award; the 2000 New York Press Club's Golden Gavel Award for her reporting on New York family courts; and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for a 1998 series uncovering the lack of shelter for homeless teenagers.

Bob Thayer is an award-winning feature photographer who has been on the Providence Journal staff since 1978. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College and the Columbia School of Journalism.

Bobby Ross is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Brian Feulner is a freelance photographer and multimedia journalist in Portland, Ore. Brian has worked as a photo editor and staff photographer for several daily newspapers after getting a degree in photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate New York.

Brian Slodysko, a University of Washington journalism student, currently reports on Washington State politics for the Associated Press.

Brittain Quibodeaux Orgeron, 25, graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2002, where she received a degree in mass communications.

After working as a technical writer and consultant, she took a position at The Daily Advertiser as a part-time reporter, then moved to a full-time copy desk post in 2003, where she now designs and edits.

Caitlin Kelly, a freelance journalist and former reporter for The Globe and Mail and Montreal Gazette, is the author of Blown Away: American Women and Guns.

Carla Hinton is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Carol Smith is the senior profile writer for the the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and specializes in medicine and science reporting. She's worked at the newspaper for 13 years, with a five-year break from 1992-97. During that hiatus, she worked as a free-lance business columnist for the Los Angeles Times and also continued a business column for the P-I.

Charles Wilson is a researcher for The New York Times Magazine.

Chris Bull is a book author and contributor to USA Today, The Washington Post Magazine and GQ. He was national correspondent for The Advocate where he covered congress, the White House, Supreme Court and federal agencies. He has written on hate crimes, political activism, and education issues.

Chris Heide is a Seattle writer and videographer with particular interests in journalism, social media, pop culture, and law. He graduated from the University of Washington in 2008 with a double major in political science and journalism.

Christine Evans is a reporter for the Palm Beach Post in Palm Beach, FL.

Christy Cox has extensive experience working with publishers, editors, agents, producers, filmmakers and educators, and has written and edited content for both print and online media.

Claudia B. Laws joined the staff of The Daily Advertiser in 2004. A 2002 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Laws interned at The Bay City Times, The Cedar Rapids Gazette and The Montgomery Advertiser before finding a home with the Lafayette paper.

Craig Dezern is a reporter for The Orlando Sentinel.

Crocker Stephenson is a reporter for the Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee, WI.

Dan Williams is an assistant professor of journalism and English at Lyndon State College in Lyndonville, VT. Before he started teaching, Williams was editorial director for CNN International in Atlanta.

Daniel Vargas is a reporter for the Houston Chronicle (Houston, TX).

Daniel Zwerdling's acclaimed investigative and documentary reports appear on all of NPR's major news shows. His stories have repeatedly attracted national attention and generated national action. In late 2006 and 2007, he revealed that officers at Fort Carson, in Colorado, were punishing soldiers who'd come back from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder and other serious mental health problems — even kicking them out of the Army.  As a result of Zwerdling's reports, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators, the Pentagon and the Government Accountability Office all launched separate investigations, and commanders at the army base vowed to treat soldiers better.

For more than a decade, the Dart Center has honored teams of journalists whose reporting of violence and disaster goes beyond the ordinary with the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. Dart Media curator Donna DeCesare with Jose Castillo selected a few exemplary images by a few exemplary photographers from this extraordinary group.

Rodgers has been a photographer at The Portland Newspapers since 1988. He previously worked for the Rocky Mountain News and the Boston Globe. Rodgers won third place in the National Press Photographers' Association's international pictures of the year contest this year for his work on the newspapers' Island Odyssey series, which ran in the summer of 1996. Rodgers also has won numerous regional and state photography awards.

David Ferguson is a researcher for The New York Times Magazine.

David Hafetz is a reporter for the Austin American-Stateman (Austin, TX).

David Zeman is the Assistant Managing Editor for Investigations at the Detroit Free Press and has been an editor and reporter at the Free Press since 1991.

David Zizzo is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Deanne Fitzmaurice was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography in 2005. She has been a staff photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle for 16 years. Her work has been published in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, ESPN Magazine, NY Times Magazine and People Magazine. She has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, National Press Photographers Association, Best of Photojournalism, Pictures of the Year International, California Press Photographers Association, Atlanta Photojournalism Competition, Mark Twain Award in 2004 and was named the 2002 Photographer of the Year by Bay Area Press Photographers Association. She has been a contract photographer for Day in the Life book projects and is a graduate of the Academy of Art College in San Francisco with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography.

Debra McKinney, a graduate of the University of Montana School of Journalism, has been writing features for the Anchorage Daily News since 1984. She's won numerous state and regional awards, including the C.B. Blethen award for feature writing, and was a member of the team winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for ADN's "People in Peril" series on alcoholism, suicide and despair among Alaska Natives.

Doug Kapustin is a photographer for The Baltimore Sun.

Dr. Edward Rynearson, a psychiatrist, founded the Separation and Loss Services program at Seattle's Virginia Mason Medical Center in 1989. He is also author of the book, Retelling Violent Death.

Edmund D. Fountain is a photojournalist for the St. Petersburg Times. He joined the paper as an intern in the fall of 2004.

Ellen Jaskol is a photographer for the Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO).

Emma Mulholland is a student journalist from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Emma-Jane Kirby is a BBC correspondent in Geneva.

“If you learn to shoot with your heart, you’ll move peoples souls.” That phrase of inspiration, said to him in 1993 by one of his mentors at the Detroit Free Press is something photojournalist, Eric Seals thinks about on a daily basis when making pictures. Born in Detroit into a news junkie family in 1969, Seals knew in 10th grade that he wanted to be a photojournalist. Seals grew up reading the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press and became more interested in looking at the pictures in the Detroit Free Press because the photographers seemed to make something out of nothing assignments and took more chances.

Erin Grace is a staff writer for the Omaha World-Herald.

Eugene Garcia is a photographer for the Orange County Register.

Eyal Press is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and the author of "Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America" (Picador).

Senior photographer of Anchorage Daily News, on staff since 1979.

Frank Ochberg, M.D. is a founding board member of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and recipient of their highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award. He edited the first text on treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and served on the committee that defined PTSD. Ochberg founded and secured the funding for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, served as its first chairman and now is chairman emeritus of the Center. He helps journalists understand traumatic stress and he helps traumatic stress experts understand journalists.

Frank Smyth is a free-lance journalist and a contributor to Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff. He also is the Washington representative of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.

Fred Ritchin is former picture editor of The New York Times Magazine and other publications and professor of photography and imaging at New York University. He is also the author of the recently published book, After Photography.

G.M. Bush is a reporter for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

Gary Porter is a photographer for the Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee, WI.

Gary Tippet is a senior writer for The Age in Melbourne, Australia. He was the first Australian to be awarded an Ochberg Fellowship, in the year 2004.

Gavin Hewitt, one of the BBC’s most distinguished and experienced reporters, covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Geoff Buteau is a graduate student at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a research assistant for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.

Ginger Wall is a Delaware native who has worked at the News Journal for 14 years. She grew up in dark rooms - her father had a small photo studio, Roy Wall Photography, in Dover, Delaware. Wall has worked as a photographer at newspapers in California and Delaware.

Gus Chan has worked in Cleveland for the past 15 years, and his greatest enjoyment comes from documenting the comings and goings of city life. He was named photographer of the year by the Cleveland Press Club in 2005 and has twice been named runner-up by the Ohio News Photographer Association. He came to The Plain Dealer after working with The Detroit News.

Gypsy Hogan is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Hassan S. Ali, 23, is the founder of Tame The Bear, a comedic blogazine and video website aimed at satirizing the current financial crisis. As an alum of the University of Chicago, where he was news editor of the Chicago Maroon student newspaper, he had close ties to the journalism community at NIU.

Helen Guthrie Smith is a reporter for the the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

Ignatius Haryanto is a former Tempo journalist and is now director of the Institute for Press and Development Studies.

Ilena Silverman is story editor for the New York Times Magazine.

Jack Norman is a reporter for the Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee, WI.

Jane Hoback is a writer and assistant business editor at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver. She also is the adviser to The Metropolitan student newspaper at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She has a particular interest in covering issues that affect women and minorities.

Janet Wiscombe is a reporter at the Long Beach Press-Telegram.

Jason Brown, 28, began his career as an intern at The Daily Advertiser in 2004 and was promoted to a full-time night cops position shortly afterward.

Since then, Brown has worked as a general assignment reporter focusing on public safety and environmental issues.

Jason Karas is a page designer for the Detroit Free Press.

Jeb Sharp covers U.S. foreign policy and a wide range of other international stories as a correspondent for PRI's "The World." Sharp was a reporter at public radio station WBUR, Boston, before joining the staff of "The World" in 1998. 

Jeff Seidel joined the Detroit Free Press in 1998 as a general assignment features reporter. He has covered everything from the war in Iraq to Hurricane Katrina.

Jeff Widener has been a photographer at The Honolulu Advertiser since 1997. He is best known for his now famous image of a lone man confronting a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square during the 1989 Beijing riots for which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990. 

Jeffrey Dvorkin is news ombudsman for National Public Radio.

Jennifer Goren is senior editor of PRI’s "The World."   She works with the program's global staff of correspondents and reporters, helping them to craft their stories for broadcast. She was a staff producer and writer at public radio station WBUR, Boston, before joining the staff of "The World" in 2005.

Jennifer Pitts is a photographer for the Shawnee News-Star in Oklahoma. Here, she respond to a letter from her co-worker Kristen Armstrong about a traffic accident fatality the two covered.

Jenny Wishart, BA (Journalism) QUT Brisbane, is a freelance journalist and corporate communications writer in Brisbane, Australia. Jenny is published in newspapers and magazines on family, government policy, human rights, business and sport topics. Jenny is also a consultant/writer/ producer for Video Media Productions, Brisbane.

Jeremy Kohler is a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO).

Jeremy Olson is a staff writer for the Omaha World-Herald.

Jesse Hardman was working in Chile with the international media development organization Internews when the earthquake struck. He currently lives in New York.

Jesse Tarbert is a former web editor for the Dart Center.

Jill Kaufman is the news director at WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts where she oversees newscasts, features and series reporting. She also reports on issues around western New England. Before coming to WFCR, Kaufman began the global resources desk at PRI’s “The World” at WGBH in Boston. As the executive editor, she commissioned American stories with international angles for the show; for stations, she provided international content to broaden local talk shows, reporter packages and other news production.  Prior to her role at the global resources desk, Kaufman was a reporter at WGBH’s culture desk from 2001 to 2003. She created nationally distributed feature reports for NPR and PRI programs, covering the arts, education and New England history.

Reporter, Cheboygan Daily Tribune

Jim Killackey is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Jim Killam is a freelance journalist, a journalism educator at Northern Illinois University and, since 1995, the adviser for the Northern Star, the NIU student newspaper.

A veteran South African journalist, Jimi Matthews is currently Head of TV News and Current Affairs at the South African Broadcasting Corporation, The biggest news organization in Africa.

Joanna Connors specializes in narrative features for The Plain Dealer of Cleveland.  She came to the paper in 1983 to be the theater critic, and has been the paper’s Arts and Entertainment Editor, the film critic and a columnist.

Joannah Hill is a layout editor for The Baltimore Sun.

Jodie Munro O'Brien graduated from Central Queensland University and worked for a Rural Press weekly newspaper as a general reporter for a year before travelling to the United States in late 1998.

Joe Hight, managing editor of The Oklahoman, is president of the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma’s Executive Committee. In 1995, he led the team of reporters and editors who covered victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. The Oklahoman’s coverage won several national awards, including The Dart Award for Excellence in Reporting on Victims of Violence.

Joe McDermott is a reporter for The Morning Call (Allentown, PA). 

John Harris teaches in the Department of Journalism at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA.

John Perry is a reporter for The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

John Pope, a staff writer for The Times-Picayune, was a member of the newspaper’s team that won two Pulitzer Prizes, a George Polk Award, a National Headliner Award and the Medill Award for Courage in Journalism for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

John Puterbaugh was the editor in chief of the Northern Star, the Northern Illinois University student newspaper, for the 2007-2008 school year.

John Trotter is a freelance photojournalist and 2007 Ochberg Fellow. His work has been exhibited in the US and in Europe and has appeared in Life, U.S. News and World Report, Nieman Reports, American Photography and numerous other publications. A selection of his recent work can be seen on his personal website.

John Wallace is director of the Asia Pacific Journalism Centre and a past president of the Journalism Education Association. He has managed and delivered professional development programs for journalists in the Asia Pacific region over the past 20 years.

Charles is the BBC's Frankfurt-based correspondent, covering Germany and the wider Europe. This article and the accompanying photos are used here by permission of the BBC.

Jon Steele is a veteran war cinematographer.

Judith Matloff was a foreign correspondent for 20 years, lastly as the bureau chief of The Christian Science Monitor in Moscow and Africa. She teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and and is the author of Fragments of a Forgotten War (1997) and Home Girl (2008).

Judy Kuhlman is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Judy Tierney worked as a freelance journalist on ABC's “This Day tonight”, “To Market to Market” and current affairs radio. Judy also produced an arts programme for 7ZR (now 936 ABC Hobart). In the '70's Judy travelled overseas and lived in the U.S.A., England and Kuwait with her family. On her return to Australia in 1979 Judy took a full time position with ABC TV’s “Nationwide”.

Kael Alford, is a documentary photographer, writer and educator whose work has been published in international magazines. Her work is featured in the book Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq. During her Nieman fellowship at Harvard University in 2009-2010, Alford made her first short film, "After the Storm." An essay about her current project appears in the Spring 2010 issue of The Nieman Reports. Alford is represented by Panos Pictures in London.

Karen Brown covers health care and general assignment stories for WFCR public radio (Amherst, MA) - with a focus on mental health, children's issues, and community-based initiatives. Her features have aired nationally on National Public Radio, American RadioWorks, Marketplace Radio, Justice Talking, and other outlets.

Karen Klinka is a reporter for The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Kate Bramson, a 1993 graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, has been on the Providence Journal reporting staff since August, 2002. Prior to joining the Journal, she was the education writer for the Duluth News Tribune in Minnesota. From October, 1995 to Feburary, 1997, she was news editor for Budapest Week and The Budapest Sun in Hungary.

Kathy Kieliszewski is a four-time National Emmy Award winning multimedia producer at the Detroit Free Press.

Kayla Williams is a former sergeant and Arabic linguist in a Military Intelligence company of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).  She is the author of “Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army,” a memoir about her experiences negotiating the changing demands on today's military.

Kelley Benham is enterprise editor at the St. Petersburg Times.

Kelly Furnas became editorial adviser of Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech in 2005 after working for newspapers in Las Vegas and Tallahassee, Fla.

Kelly Hochenauer is a Features Editor at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Kenna Griffin is a doctoral student in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. She is a former student in University of Central Oklahoma’s groundbreaking Victims in the Media course.

Kern Konwiser is a writer, director and producer of award-winning theatrical films, documentaries, cable and network movies and series, new media, live events and dance.

Kevin Dayton came to The Honolulu Advertiser in 1997 as the capitol bureau reporter. Previously he worked at the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, the Associated Press, Tucson Citizen and Arizona Daily Star. He holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Hawaii and an undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona.
 

Kevin Kawamoto, MSW, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Hawaii School of Communications and teaches courses in journalism and multimedia.

Kimina Lyall is currently the Group Executive for Corporate Development at Australian Unity, a company with business operations in healthcare, financial services, aged care and retirement living. Before joining Australian Unity, Kimina spent almost 15 years as a journalist, including a period as Southeast Asia correspondent for The Australian.

Kole Kleeman is a professor in the mass communications department at the University of Central Oklahoma. His research focus in the Victims and the Media Unit at U.C.O. concerns anti-violence education for print and broadcast journalists, understanding trauma and victimization, and creating greater awareness and sensitivity to under-represented groups in the media. 

Krista Kjellman Schmidt is web producer and deputy editor of news applications for ProPublica.

Kristen Armstrong is a reporter for the Shawnee News-Star in Oklahoma.

Kristin Harty joined the Delaware News Journal as a general assignment reporter in September 2005. Her most recent narrative project, a three-part series about seven men who drifted for days in the Atlantic on a four-man life raft, appeared in The News Journal earlier this year. Harty graduated from the University of Illinois and received a Masters of Arts from the University of Mississippi.  She has worked at newspapers in Ohio, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Marion, Indiana.
 

Lara Solt joined The Dallas Morning News as a staff photographer in 2003.  Before coming to Dallas, Lara freelanced in the New York City area.  Previously she worked as a staff photographer for Copley Newspapers / Sun Publications in the Chicago area. Solt has won multiple awards in Pictures of the Year, World Press Photo and other competitions. She is a graduate of Ohio University¹s School of Visual Communications. Her primary interest has always been storytelling, with a focus on community photojournalism, and most recently with multimedia.

Larry McCormack, a photojournalist with the Tennesseean in Nashville, got his start in small town newspapers. After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University in 1980 with a degree in Mass Communications he worked for the Daily News Journal in Murfeeesboro until July 1981. He then moved to the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle until 1983 when he accepeted a position with the Nashville Banner, where he stayed until it closed in 1998. He has been with the Tennessean since 1998 and continues to photograph business, news, sports, fashion, food, and everthing that is required in this challenging field. Though he started photographing in black & white he has advanced through color and for the past 11 years has been producing all his images with a digital camera and processing with a computer.

Laura Sullivan has been on NPR's national desk since December of 2004. During her tenure, she has covered crime and punishment issues for “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” “Day to Day” and other NPR programs. Sullivan's 2006 news series “Life in Solitary Confinement,” which examined the state of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, received two honors: the 2006 Gracie Award for "Outstanding News Series" and the 2007 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize.

Leon Alligood is a state news reporter for The Tennessean, a position he has held since the Nashville Banner, the afternoon newspaper, ceased publication in 1998. He worked there for 11 ½ years. Prior to his arrival in Nashville, he began his career with stints at two weekly newspapers.

Assignments have taken him as far away as Afghanistan and Iraq, but usually he is found covering the small towns of Middle Tennessee. Over the years his writing has won numerous state, regional and national honors. He is a Georgia native and a graduate of the University of Georgia. He is married and his wife, Bertie, is an 8th grade teacher and they have two grown sons, Arthur and Shep, and a dog named U.G. Lee.

Linell Smith is a feature writer for the Baltimore Sun newspaper. His recent work includes an in-depth portrait of a woman living with bipolar disease. She also has lectured on journalism and feature writing.

Lisa Beckloff is a reporter at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City.

Lisa Chedekel has been a staff writer for The Hartford Courant for 14 years and has won a number of national awards, including a 1999 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news, which she shared with a team of reporters. As a member of The Courant’s investigative team, she co-authored a series of stories in 2006 on soldiers’ mental health that led to sweeping reforms in the military’s system of screening and treating troops. The series was a finalist for a Pulitzer and won a George Polk Award and the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting, among other national honors. Before joining the investigations team, Chedekel covered the state Capitol and the Hartford schools and handled special projects for The Courant. She previously was a city government reporter and columnist for the New Haven Register.

Lisa DeJong has been a staff photographer for The Plain Dealer of Clevaland since 2007. She was previously on staff at the Flint Journal and Muskegon Chronicle in Michigan and the St. Petersburg Times in Florida.  DeJong was named Photographer of the Year in the Ohio News Photographers Association competition in 2009, and was runner-up in 2008.

Mackenzie Carpenter is a staff writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where she has worked since 1990. She has written numerous prize-winning series on such diverse issues as liver transplant allocation; child care in the United States; the education of gifted children; domestic violence, and divorce and custody issues. Her 1997 series, "Children of the Underground," dealt with mothers who hide their children in violation of custody orders. It won a number of national, state and local awards and was republished in international newspapers and magazines, including Corriere Della Serra and Elle. Ms. Carpenter began her career as an assistant to Washington D.C. political correspondents Martin Agronsky and Paul Duke, moving on to become a field producer for public television in Washington, D.C. and, later, as host and producer of a program on politics for the Pennsylvania Public Television Network. She also worked as a reporter for the Journal-Inquirer in Manchester, CT, and United Press International's state capitol bureau in Harrisburg. She was raised in Princeton, N.J. and Tokyo and received a bachelor's degree in English from Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 1976 and a master's degree in studies in law from Yale Law School in 1987.

Marego Athans is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun.

Maria Benning is a journalist based in Hannover, Germany.

Maria Godoy is an editor with NPR's digital news division, where she oversees national news coverage.  From the national debate over gay marriage, to the downfall of GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, to a colorful virtual journey with an aerial photographer, Maria uses a mix of formats — text, images, audio, video and interactive Web tools — to tell news and feature stories online.  She was part of the NPR news teams that won the 2007 Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award for Excellence in Reporting on Drug and Alcohol Issues and the 33rd annual Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio & Television.

Mark Brayne was the Director of Dart Center Europe until 2008.

Marsha Sills is a staff reporter at The Daily Advertiser. Sills started her career at the newspaper in late 2001 as a night cops reporter and covered the unfolding investigation of the 2002 murder of a local woman whose death was linked to serial killer Derrick Todd Lee.

For the past two years, Sills has covered higher education. Most recently, health-care issues have been added to her beat coverage. During Hurricane Rita, Sills reported from Lake Charles, La., which was hit hard by the storm.

Mary Self is a psychiatrist, author and cancer survivor.

Matt Ironside is a student in the University of Washington News Lab.

Matt Rainey is a photographer for the Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ).

Matt Sloane is a producer for CNN Medical News.

Matthew Kauffman has been a reporter for The Hartford Courant for 21 years, and is currently assigned to the paper's investigative desk, where he works on longer-term projects. He also specializes in computer-assisted reporting and manages the newsroom's databases and Intranet. Outside the paper, he teaches a graduate-level course in computer-assisted reporting at Quinnipiac University. Before joining the investigative desk in 2004, Kauffman was a business writer and columnist, covered legal affairs, and wrote from the paper's New Haven bureau. Prior to joining The Courant, Kauffman covered local news for the Wausau Daily Herald in Wisconsin and was a reporter and editor at New Jersey Reporter magazine.  He graduated from Vassar College with a degree in political science.

Matthew Reilly is a reporter for the Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ).

Meg Moritz is a professor and UNESCO Chair at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Colorado, Boulder. 

Melanie Anstey is married to a high profile foreign correspondent. She is a freelance documentary maker, and now works for the Rory Peck Trust in London.

Mervyn Jess is a reporter for BBC North Ireland.

Michael A. Fuoco is an enterprise reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Since joining the paper in 1983, he has written spot news stories, features, enterprise pieces, and investigative stories.

Michelle Mostovy-Eisenberg is a reporter for the Middletown Transcript.

A teacher and consultant to the Journalism and Trauma Program, Scherer has spoken on television, radio talk shows, and at workshops and conferences on the subject of trauma, victims and the media. She is the author of Still Loved by the Sun: A Rape Survivor's Journal.

Mike Cane is a recent graduate of the University of Washington and a Seattle-based freelance writer.

Mimi Burkhardt has served in several roles since joining the Providence Journal's copy desk in 1980. She has been night metro editor, an assistant city editor, and a projects editor. For the past three years she has been a training editor, working closely with the newspaper's two-year interns and other reporters on the state staff. It was in her role as a consultive editor she worked with Kate Bramson on the award-winning story.

Minerva Canto covered immigration and U.S.-Mexico issues for the Register from 1999 to 2004, reporting in both countries on topics such as the effects of Mexico's crackdown along its border with Guatemala, unemployment in the maquiladora industry and Vicente Fox's presidential campaign.

Nadya Azhgikhina is secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists.

Nael Shyoukhri is a distinguished Palestinian cameraman who has worked for the Reuters news agency in the West Bank since 1995. In 1998 he was seriously wounded by rubber bullets fired by Israeli soldiers while covering unrest in Hebron. With support from Reuters, Nael has been an important contributor to the Dart Centre's discussions in London about how organisations can best prepare and care for employees exposed to psychological trauma.

Niki Canham is a German & History student at University College, London.

Nina Berman is a widely published documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape. She has received awards from the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Open Society Institute Documentary Fund and the World Press Photo Foundation. 

Tietzel comes from Munich and is currently studying for a Masters degree in international journalism at London’s City University.

Paolo Pellegrin is an internationally renowned photographer. He is a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine.

Pat Gilliland is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Dr. Patrice Keats is an Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator in the Counselling Psychology Program in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. 

Patricia Callahan is a reporter for the Denver Post.

Patricia Meisol is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun.

Patrick Cox has reported and written series on international terrorism (1999), Middle East history (2002), the U.S.- Mexico border (2004) and Hiroshima's Survivors (2005). Cox has also filed reports from around the world: the Balkans and the former Soviet Union (ethnic conflicts and emerging democracies), South Korea and Japan (soccer's 2002 World Cup) and Chile (some of the world's largest telescopes).

Patrick Hamilton covered the 2004 tsunami as an award-winning photographer for The Australian.

Paul Hu is a photographer for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

Paul Meyer has worked as a government and general assignments reporter since 2003 for The Dallas Morning News.  His stories have included an investigation into failures to protect human trafficking victims, coverage of the plight of Palestinian asylum seekers and reporting from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  Meyer earned his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2000, and prior to entering journalism, he lived and worked in Russia, Mongolia, China and Nepal.

Penny Owen began her career as an intern for The Daily Oklahoman in 1992, where she was hired after graduating with a B.A. in Journalism. She worked her way through the lower echelon of the newsroom with police and general assignment reporting; then, three years into her career, Ms. Owen found herself on the front lines of covering the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, then known as the worst domestic bombing in U.S. history.

Peter Drought is Senior Camera Operator and Senior Field Operator for News and Current Affairs at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Philippa Goodrich is a producer for the BBC.

Directeur des études à l’Ecole supérieure de journalisme de Lille

Directeur des études à l’Ecole supérieure de journalisme de Lille

Rachel Dissell has been with The Plain Dealer since 2002, and covers juvenile justice and children and family issues. Before coming to the Plain Dealer she worked at the Harrisonburg Daily News-Record in Virginia.  She has twice been a fellow at the Casey Journalism Center, attending workshops on juvenile justice and coverage of children and families. She won her first journalism award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in 1997 as a high school senior.  Dissell grew up in the Cleveland, and graduated in 2001 from Kent State University with a degree in print journalism.

Ralph de la Cruz is a reporter for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

Randal Beam is a University of Washington Department of Communication associate professor.

Rebecca Droke has been a staff photographer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for three years. Before that she worked at the Durango Herald. She graduated from Ohio Unversity's School of Visual Communication in 2005.

Regina H. Boone has been a staff photographer at the Detroit Free Press since 2003.

Renee C. Byer is an award winning photographer who started her photojournalism career at the Peoria Journal Star. (Illinois). Other photo positions include stints at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA) Statesman Journal in Salem (OR), The Oregonian in Portland (OR), Syracuse newspapers in Syracuse (NY), The Hartford Currant (CT), The Transcript-Telegram in Holyoke (MA). She currently is on the photo staff of the Sacramento Bee, (CA).

Reza Afshari is a professor of history and human rights at Pace University. He specializes in the historiography of human rights, focusing on the Middle East.

Rick Nease is an award-winning art director and illustrator for the Detroit Free Press.

River Smith is a postdoctoral fellow in clinical psychology for the Department of Veterans Affairs. She is a recent graduate from the University of Tulsa. Her research interests include the impact of exposure to traumatic events on individuals exposed in their line of duty, including military personnel and journalists. She currently works in primary care psychology, where a large part of her clinical activities involve the identification of veterans in need of treatment for PTSD.

Rob Perez joined The Honolulu Advertiser as an enterprise investigative reporter in 2005.  He has won numerous state and national journalism awards including Best of the West and a National Headliner Award.  He is a two time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting. He was a National Press Foundation Fellow in 1999.

Robert Holloway is Deputy Head of AFP's English-language news service.

Robert Medley is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Robert Nickelsberg is a photojournalist currently documenting the ongoing effects of terrorism in South Asia and the Middle East. He has worked in photojournalism for more than three decades. Recent work includes assignments in Afghanistan and Iraq for publications such as TIME and the New York Times.

Robin Gaby Fisher is a reporter for the Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ).

Rodolfo Gonzalez is a photographer for the Austin American-Statesman (Austin, TX).

Roger Simpson is a former executive director of the Dart Center and co-author of "Covering Violence: An Ethical Guide to Reporting about Victims and Violence," published in 2000 by Columbia University Press.

Rose Palmisano a Register photographer, has covered border issues for 12 years. She documented the lives of migrant workers on both sides of the border and of illegal immigrants living in the United States. She spent several months photographing homeless children in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. 

Roya Hakakian is a writer, poet and journalist. She is a fellow at Yale University's Whitney Humanities Center, a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center and a board member of Refugees International.

Russell McCrory is a designer at The Honolulu Advertiser where he has worked since 2004.  Previously, he worked for the Orlando Sentinel as a page designer. His background includes features design, graphics design and copy editing at Texas newspapers including The Victoria Advocate, Valley Morning Star and The Monitor.

Ruth Teichroeb is an investigative reporter whose stories have uncovered abuse in residential schools for the deaf, revealed police officials' failure to crack down on domestic violence in the ranks and most recently documented the mistreatment of troubled developmentally disabled adults in the care of private companies.

Saed Hindash is a photojournalist at the Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest newspaper. In 2002 he won the Dart Award, along with reporter Matt Reilly, for a story about a Siberian orphan who was beaten and froze to death in the custody of his adoptive parents in central New Jersey. Before joining the Star-Ledger, Hindash worked for newspapers in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and in Everett, WA.

Sandi Davis is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Sara Tiegreen is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of Tulsa (Oklahoma).

As a courts and crime reporter for The Herald in Everett, WA, Scott North has developed innovative techniques in covering violence in a sensitive, accurate, and insightful way. He was a 2003 Ochberg Fellow and is the President of the Dart Society.

Shaheen Buneri is a journalist based in Peshawar, Pakistan. He covers issues related to politics, society and cultural heritage for national and international media.

Sharon Dowell is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Sharon Stewart is a reporter for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

Sheila S. Coronel is director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is a co-founder of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and author and editor of more than a dozen books, including “Coups, Cults & Cannibals,” a collection of reportage; “The Rulemakers: How the Wealthy and Well-Born Dominate Congress;” and “Pork and Other Perks: Corruption and Governance in the Philippines.”

Sheri Fink, a medical doctor and journalist, has reported on health, medicine and science in the U.S. and from every continent except Antarctica.

Stella M. Chávez is a staff writer for The Dallas Morning News where she covers neighborhoods and diversity in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Chávez began her career at The (Lakeland) Ledger covering small towns in Polk County, Florida and the migrant farm worker community. She also wrote the paper’s first weekly column about diversity called “Faces of Polk.”  After leaving The Ledger, she joined the staff of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, where she covered local government as well as immigrant communities. She helped cover several national stories, including the Elian Gonzalez saga and the 2000 election debacle.  A native Texan, Chávez graduated in 1995 from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She is the daughter of Mexican immigrants.

Stephanie Klein-Davis is a photographer for The Roanoke Times.

Stephen Engelberg is the managing editor of ProPublica.

Steve Anderson is a page designer for the Detroit Free Press.

Steve Jackson is a reporter for the Westword in Denver, CO.

Sue Jameson is a Good Morning Television correspondent.

Susan Hall-Balduf is a copy editor for the Detroit Free Press.

Susan Pack is a reporter for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

Susan White is senior editor for ProPublica.

Syed Nazakat is a senior journalist from Indian Kashmir based in New Delhi, India.  He has reported extensively from one of the most conflict ridden and heavily militarized zones in the Indian subcontinent – the Line of Control that marks the border between India and Pakistan in Kashmir. He is a fellow of the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism, Manila.

Tamie Ross is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

Tanya Paperny is a graduate student in nonfiction writing at Columbia University and a program assistant at the Dart Center. Prior to coming to New York, she worked as an organizer with progressive youth activists and journalists at Campus Progress, part of the Center for American Progress. You can see her writing on her blog. 

Theo Douglas is a reporter for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

Award-winning journalist Torri Minton had a 16-year career at the San Francisco Chronicle and was a college journalism instructor before her death from cancer in August 2004. While at the Chronicle, Minton specialized in light, amusing features, but also reported major news stories, including the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and Polly Klass’s kidnapping and murder in 1993. She received a National Mental Health Association Gold Award for her reporting on earthquake survivors, and was honored by the Leukemia Society of America for a series on a 5-year-old girl with leukemia. Minton received the 1994 Dart Award Honorable mention for her personal reporting of her sister’s stabbing. Minton left the Chronicle in 2002 to teach journalism classes at the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and Laney College. She was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in April 2004 and died on Aug. 4, 2004.

Ung Bun Y is a journalist based in Cambodia and a student at the Department of Media & Communication of the Royal University of Phnom Penh.

Valentin Areh is a Slovenian war correspondent.

Virginia Crompton is a BBC producer, whose experience recording a World Service radio programme on water in Africa is a reminder that trauma is a part of daily experience in many parts of the world – and how important it is for journalists and their editors to be aware of that as they prepare for assignments there.

Waveney Ann Moore is a general assignment reporter for the St. Petersburg Times.

William Birnbauer is a reporter for The Age (Melbourne, Australia).

William Coté is emeritus professor of journalism at Michigan State University where he was coordinator of the Victims and the Media Program. For almost twenty years he was a professional journalist at the Ypsilanti Press and the Booth Newspapers State Capitol Bureau.

Yosri Fouda is a senior editor with the Arabic television station Al-Jazeera, and was the first journalist to interview leaders of Al-Qaeda following the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

Yvette Cabrera is an Orange County Register local news columnist who writes about the Latino community in Orange County, and also serves as the newspaper’s Latino coverage coordinator.