Journalists and Online Harassment
What is online harassment? How prevalent is it? How can journalists effectively respond?
What is online harassment? How prevalent is it? How can journalists effectively respond?
Designed for researchers, this document aims to explain how to evaluate and use the Journalist Traumatic Exposure Scale in research studies. The language is simplified such to be useful to most beginning researchers who are familiar with basics in psychometric concepts, ANOVAs and regression analysis in research design.
Dr. Elana Newman and her staff have developed an anonymous online survey to better understand journalists’ experience with online harassment.
The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies has released a special issue on sexual harassment and sexual assault, featuring articles and resources available at no cost through the end of the year.
The Dart Center surveyed 247 journalists around the world about the safety trainings they attended, the skills they acquired and the gaps between these trainings and their professional needs on the ground. This report, prepared by an interdisciplinary team of researchers in psychology, occupational safety and journalism practice, details the results. Scroll down for the executive summary and click here for the full report.
Research and Studies of Core Relevance to the Early Childhood Development Field.
Full video; "How Technology Affects Young Children: What We Know about Media's Impact on Cognitive Development and Behavior"; March 11, 2017.
Full video and powerpoint presentations from "The Neuroscience of Poverty, Adversity and Resilience"; March 10, 2017.
Recent resources by Ann Masten, Professor in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota, and a speaker at the Dart Center's Global Reporting Institute on Early Childhood Experience & the Developing Brain; March 9-12, 2017.
Dr. Elana Newman and her staff have developed an anonymous online survey designed to better understand journalists’ experience with hostile environment, first aid, and safety training.