Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

The True 'Twitter Revolution'

By Stan Alcorn

Was there a Twitter revolution in Iran? To Iason Athanasiadis, an independent journalist whose detention there sparked a global uproar that culminated in his release, the answer comes quickly: No. More »

Journalists Can't Be Choosers

By Roya Hakakian

What else is there to do amid a crisis that has been cordoned off from view? Hypothetically, the question could have applied to a situation where a variety of other material — graphic and non-graphic — was equally available and then a journalists had to struggle with the notion of which to choose. More »

Neda Agha Soltan and the Ethics of Imagery

By Fred Ritchin

The 1972 photograph by Nick Ut of children being napalmed in Vietnam, an iconic image that did much to focus the world on the war’s horror, was almost not published because it showed a traumatized, naked Vietnamese girl from the front. More »

Understanding Nonviolence in Iran

By Bruce Shapiro

Here at the Dart Center we focus on coverage of violence and its aftermath. Usually that means better understanding the role of emotional injury in the lives of individuals or communities.

But sometimes the story is exactly the opposite: What happens when individuals and communities, whose lives have been thwarted and voices diminished by trauma and fear, find creative ways to assert their rights and aspirations? More »

Brown Bag Lunch: The Twitter Uprising?

At Columbia University in New York City, a conversation with journalist and Iran expert Iason Athanasiadis.

Trying to Wean Myself off War

By An Anonymous Producer

I got into Iran on a tourist visa to make a documentary about some human rights issues there. It was a difficult job because we had to set up clandestine interviews with activists, and I knew how risky this could be not just for myself as the filmmaker, but also those who took part in it.