Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Staging Trauma

By Chris Heide

Journalism professor Dan Williams describes how Lyndon State College in Vermont uses innovative disaster-simulation exercises to train journalism students.

Three Questions on Campus Rape

By Stan Alcorn

Kristen Lombardi, staff writer for the Center for Public Integrity, answers three questions about the knowledge, methods and ethics needed to report sexual assault on college campuses.

Covering Campus Sexual Assault

By Bruce Shapiro

Center for Public Integrity staff writer Kristen Lombardi explains how she pierced the shroud of secrecy surrounding rape on college campuses.

Weathering the Trauma Storms: Developing Interviewing Technique

By Gavin Rees

Nearly every journalist in the course of their career will interview people who have experienced significant trauma. But how many receive any training for the task? This article describes how role-playing traumatic incidents might give student journalists valuable insight and hone crucial interviewing skills.

What We Don't Learn in School

Reporter Tells of Her First Confrontation with Death

By Kristen Armstrong

A letter written by University of Central Oklahoma graduate Kristen Armstrong to her former jourmalism ethics professor Terry Clark.

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.