In addition to the traditional Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, this year we will be giving a special Dart Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Covid-19 Crisis in recognition of the exceptional challenges posed by the pandemic across the journalism community. The deadline for submissions -- January 27, 2021 at 5:00 pm EST -- has passed.
Do your research. Ask who your story is for. Report on recovery and aftermath.
How should we handle reporting about children who are accused of committing crimes? What about children who are the victims of crimes, or witnesses to crimes? This resource from ONA Ethics offers some useful guidance.
Media reporting on children and young people should never put them at risk. UNICEF has developed principles and guidelines to help journalists report on children’s issues in a way that enables them to serve the public interest without compromising the rights of children.
Video coverage of the 2020 Dart Awards presentation and winners' roundtable, hosted by CNN's Anderson Cooper.
This article from the Columbia Journalism Review outlines some best practices that education reporters keep in mind when interviewing children.
We have compiled these resources to help prepare journalists and news organizations for Election Day and the period that follows.
On Wednesday, September 30, the Dart Center hosted a conversation with Guardian columnist, essayist, historian and feminist activist Rebecca Solnit, where she explored how journalists and news consumers can rethink what questions to ask and how to reimagine a sense of the possible in this moment of pervasive crisis.
A website for journalists and journalism educators devoted to ethical decisions about storytelling while under newsroom pressure.