Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Human Rights: Reporting Without Infringing

By Petra Tabeling

Listening, language and realistic expectations all play a role in the difficult task of covering human rights abuses.

How to make a difference for survivors

By Petra Tabeling

How to make a difference in reporting about human rights, doing justice to testimonies and finding the right balance and language was at the core of this years’ Dart Center Europe panel “Reporting about human rights without infringing the rights of those who are reported on” at the Global Media Forum in Bonn.

Witnessing the Human Cost of Climate Change

By Petra Tabeling and Gavin Rees

A Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum brought experts together in Bonn, Germany in June, 2010 to talk about how best to tell the global story of climate change – and the local one.

New Media Landscape, Less Media Safety

By Gavin Rees

These days anyone, regardless of training, can blog from the frontline of a conflict zone or delve into the shadowy dealings of some local Mr. Big. How will they protect themselves?

Emotional news: journalists, trauma and audiences

At the Frontline Club in London, a seminar organised by the Media School at Bournemouth University, exploring what value new  academic research may have for the practice of journalism. 

Presentation: Trauma and Crisis Reporting

At the University of Helsinki in Finland, a regional seminar for journalism students and media researchers on how journalists can best prepare to cover crisis situations.

Presentation: Why Trauma Literacy Matters in Crisis Reporting

In Jyväskylä, Finland, Dart Centre Europe Director Gavin Rees will give a keynote on crisis reporting at a national seminar for journalists, rescue workers and their co-ordinating bodies. 

Workshop: Interviewing Victims of Trauma

At a week-long summer school for investigative reporting in Optaija, Croatia, a workshop on interviewing victims of trauma.

Discussion: Dealing with Trauma

At the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Headland House in London, a discussion on how photojournalists cope from covering everything from car crashes and stabbings to earthquakes and revolution.

Discussion: Live To Tell

In Athens, Greece, a critical debate on the safety of journalists under current and future threat, organised by The International News Safety Institute, at the headquarters of the Athens Union of Journalists (ESIEA).

Summer School: Investigative Reporting in the Balkans

In Serbia, a week-long summer school for investigative reporting run by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) from August 22-28.