Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Four Lessons on School Shootings

By Meg Moritz

Dark, cold, grey, brooding Helsinki. This was the backdrop for Violence in the Networked Society, an international conference hosted by University of Helsinki’s Communication Research Center on Nov. 6 and 7, 2009. It was a particularly poignant setting, because in 2007 and again in 2008 Finland was the site of school shootings that together left 18 students murdered. In this highly literate and socially conscious society, the sense of communal grief was profound — a national trauma. More »

Presentation: Trauma and Crisis Reporting

At the University of Helsinki in Finland, a regional seminar for journalism students and media researchers on how journalists can best prepare to cover crisis situations.