Cambodia

  • Behind the Story

    Sep 9 2009

    Reckoning with the Khmer Rouge

    Photo: Tang Chhin Sothy / AFP / Getty Images: A Cambodian girl looks at sku ...

    By Ung Bun Y

    Journalists covering the Khmer Rouge tribunal are learning how to confront painful and seldom discussed memories of the atrocities that devastated all of Cambodia.

  • Blog Post

    Jun 29 2009 1:23 PM

    Audio: Conflict Journalism and Surviving Kidnap

    By Stan Alcorn

    Last month in Bonn, Germany, news media, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, politicians, artists, entrepreneurs and scientists from all over the world came together to discuss conflict in a multimedia age. The Dart Center organized panels on "The Trauma Factor: The Missing Ingredient in Conflict Journalism" and "Surviving Kidnap"; You now can download or listen online to the audio. More »

  • Blog Post

    Apr 22 2009 11:59 AM

    Khmer Rouge Trial Reawakens Old Horrors

    By Trina McLellan

    Three decades after the end of the deadly Khmer Rouge regime, the first of Cambodia's genocide trials has finally begun. More »

  • Interview

    Oct 2 2007

    “So the Audience Will Never Forget”

    A Dart Center Q & A with Jon Alpert

    By Olga Kravtsova

    Jon Alpert is an award-winning reporter and documentary filmmaker whose recent work includes "Baghdad ER" and "Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq," directed and filmed with Matthew O'Neill for HBO. Alpert is also a co-founder and co-director of the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV).

  • Special Report

    Apr 30 2005

    Cambodian Shadows

    By Penny Cockerell

    PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—At the entrance of Choeung Ek, the most visited of the “killing fields” here, several shiny-eyed children greet tourists and quickly engage them in a counting game in both Khmer (the Cambodian language) and English. They laugh, ask the strangers their names, where they're from. They skip around and say, in unison, "1-2-3-smile!"

  • Dart Award Honorable Mention

    The Healing Fields

    By Jane Hoback and Ellen Jaskol

    A 12-part series about a couple who survived the Cambodian killing fields and returned years later to help others. The devistation of genocide is revealed through their own journey and that of the women they seek to rescue fro a life of prostitution. Originally published in the Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) in June, 2004.

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