Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

2011 Dart Awards Honor Outstanding Reporting on Institutions

By Stan Alcorn

There are many forces that suppress stories of trauma, from the active denial of perpetrators to the passive denial of those who prefer to look away.  But when human tragedy is embedded in complex institutions — high school, higher ed, the military — the challenges of reporting and storytelling multiply. More »

2011 Dart Award Winners Named

The winners of the 2011 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma: The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, NPR with the Center for Public Integrity and NPR with ProPublica.

Brutalized, then Betrayed

By Joan Connell

Lara Logan suffered sexual battery in Cairo, then gender bigotry back home.

Rape in a Small Town

By Kate Bramson, Bob Thayer, and Mimi Burkhardt

The story of a 15-year-old girl raped by a popular classmate and of the devastating aftermath for her, her family, and her town. Originally published in the Providence Journal (Providence, RI), in 2003.