Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Black Saturday: One Year Later

By Cait McMahon

As the anniversary of Australia's worst peacetime disaster approaches, expert guidance on how to reflect without retraumatising.

Report: Bushfire Coverage Raises Ethics Questions

By Cait McMahon

What has become known as the "Black Saturday Bushfires" is Australia’s worse natural disaster to date. On Feb. 7, 2009, temperatures of 46 degrees Celsius and winds of 100 km per hour created explosive firestorms with 1500 times the energy of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. More »

Resources for Covering the Bushfires

Assembled resourced for journalists covering the worst fires in Australia's history.

Behind the Bushfires

By Angela Carey

A newspaper editor gives a look behind the scenes at how journalists are coping with covering the aftermath of Australia's worst natural disaster.

Dispatches from the Australian Bushfires

By Stan Alcorn

The bushfires that raged through Australia this weekend were the deadliest in the nation's history, tearing through towns and leading the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Victorian Premier John Brumby to describe the situation as "hell on Earth." At the time of this story's publishing, the death toll was 126, including respected news anchor Brian Naylor ... More »

Film Screening and Panel: Breaking News Breaking Down

In Melbourne, Australia, a screening of Ochberg Fellow Mike Walter's documentary on journalists covering traumatic stories, followed by a panel discussion.