Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Die Bewährungsprobe

By Petra Tabeling

Hilflosigkeit, Trauer und Wut – wie kann man nach einem so tief greifenden Ereignis wie dem Amoklauf in Winnenden heute eine sensible Berichterstattung leisten? Der Waiblinger Zeitungsverlag hat nach Konsultationen mit dem Dart Center International einen berührenden Schwerpunktartikel veröffentlicht.
 

Reporting the Columbine Anniversary

By Stan Alcorn

Yesterday, for the 10th anniversary of the most infamous school shooting, the Dart Center published a package for student journalists and educators on covering similar incidents; today, we took a look around the web and through our archive for more. More »

Covering School Shootings

Student journalists and advisers from Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University show how they reported on mass-casualty attacks on their campuses. Video, timelines and tip sheets for student journalists and educators.

Virginia Learns from Columbine

As the one year anniversary of the Virgina Tech massacre approaches, Donna Alvis-Banks of the Roanoke Times seeks guidance from the survivors of the Columbine school shooting. More »

Hometown Catastrophe

How Newsrooms Can Prepare

By Bruce Shapiro

It takes a a single phone call, a single alert on a police scanner, a single wire-service bulletin bearing word of catastrophe to upend the well-ordered chaos of a newsroom. Dart Center Director Bruce Shapiro offers advice to journalists.

Columbine: Interviewing Children

By Diane Bui

Gunfire. Children flee their school, looking for police, medics or parents. Instead, many run straight into the arms of reporters primed with questions. What should journalists know about the youngsters they try to interview at moments of crisis?

Columbine: A Willingness to Talk

By Diane Bui

One by one, students ran from Columbine High to escape the terror caused by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. As teen-agers wandered outside the building, some appeared dazed and confused — shocked by the killings of their teacher and friends. Others cried and wept, unable yet to comprehend the horror of what they or others had witnessed.

Covering Columbine

By Meg Moritz

This documentary, available online and on DVD, examines the impact of the news coverage of the Columbine High School shootings.

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Columbine: Reporter's Perspectives, Part I

By Audrey Lott

They spend a lifetime covering city council meetings, working the police beat and sitting through school board meetings. From solid waste to sparkling rivers, they cover the news of their community - whether it is along the beaten path or a few steps into the road. But every now and then when their mind drifts away from the day's events, nearly all journalists wonder what it would be like if the big one ever came their way.

Columbine: Three Views on the Images

By Diane Bui

Photographs convey the emotion of a tragedy, but the images may serve to wound as well as to heal. Such was the case with news photos used after the Columbine shootings in April 1999. How do we judge pictures that take us closer to the grief and shock of people whose lives are directly touched by violence?

Victim's Parents Celebrate a Life

By Patricia Callahan

A four-part series about a Colorado family whose only son was murdered in the Columbine High School shootings, coverage that explored the long-term effects through survivors in Peducah and Jonesboro. Originally published in the Denver Post in June, 1999.

How Covering Jonesboro Changed A Reporter

By Audrey Watkins

When I walked out the door of The Jonesboro Sun news room shortly after 1 p.m. on March 24, 1998, I thought I was about as prepared as a reporter could be in a minute's notice.