Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Tips for Flood Coverage

Resist the pack mentality. Don't feign compassion. Be sensitive to the distress of people caught up in the tragedy. Exercise the principle of doing no further harm.

Millar: Australian Journos Battling Floods, Sandflies and Exhaustion

By Lisa Millar

Reflections from a native Queenslander, as Australia's seasonal burden becomes a full-fledged disaster. Accompanying photographs from Rob Maccoll of The Courier Mail in Queensland.

Reckoning with Aftershock

By Bruce Shapiro

Journalists must confront the psychological aftershocks of traumatic events both as news and as occupational hazards.

Report: Bushfire Coverage Raises Ethics Questions

By Cait McMahon

What has become known as the "Black Saturday Bushfires" is Australia’s worse natural disaster to date. On Feb. 7, 2009, temperatures of 46 degrees Celsius and winds of 100 km per hour created explosive firestorms with 1500 times the energy of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. More »