Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Nieman Reports on Trauma Journalism

By Stan Alcorn

"We're all meaning-hungry creatures. We're permanent citizens of the republic of trauma." Those words were spoken by Pete Hamill, among 110 news professionals, artists, researchers and scholars who gathered in February 2009 at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University to explore how traumatic events challenge journalists' storytelling. More »

How to Cover the Flu Pandemic

By Stan Alcorn

For journalists sorting fact from myth as they cover the story of 2009 H1N1, there's now a one-stop resource for you online. Compiled by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, "Covering Pandemic Flu" provides resources written by journalists for journalists ...  More »

Weekend Links: Chinese Riots, Mexican Torture and Michael Jackson

By Stan Alcorn

This week, the Nieman Foundation's Narrative Digest published interviews with St. Petersburg Times reporters Ben Montgomery and Waveny Ann Moore about their co-authored April story on the effects of a century of abuse at the Florida School for Boys.

Meanwhile, journalism by the masses continued to change coverage of mass events More »

Letter From New Orleans: Facing Two Storms

By John Pope

A reporter from The Times-Picayune in New Orleans reflects on the arrival of Hurricane Gustav almost exactly three years after the descent of the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina.

Conference: Secrecy and Journalism in the New Media Age

At Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., a one-day journalism conference about how secrets are investigated, shared and filtered (or not) in an era of self-publishing, online whistle-blowing, data mining and social media websites.