The Ochberg Fellowship, now in its 19th year, is the Dart Center's flagship program for veteran and mid-career journalists who wish to deepen their knowledge of emotional trauma and psychological injury, and improve reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy. The application deadline is Friday September 22, 2017. Click here ​for full application guidelines and click here to apply.

Hurricane Irma, the most intense Atlantic hurricane in over a decade, tore through the Caribbean, into the Florida Keys and Panhandle on Monday. Please consult our tips and resources on covering disaster and recovery, interviewing victims and survivors, and working with reporters exposed to traumatic events.

We are pleased to announce our newest cohort of Dart Centre Asia Pacific Fellows. The 2017 fellows are 15 outstanding senior and mid-career journalists that represent nine countries. They are convening in Fiji this month for a week of seminars, briefings and peer-to-peer discussions. The programme is led by Cait McMahon, Managing Director of Dart Centre Asia Pacific.

Last month, a massive fire tore through the Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, killing at least 80 people and injuring 70 more. Jason Parkinson, a freelance video journalist, arrived on the scene the next morning. "Exhausted firefighters sat on the roadside with blank faces and hollow eyes," he writes. "All I could think was that this tall building full of life had become a giant tomb."

One month after Mexican journalist Javier Valdez was assassinated outside his workplace, we asked seven journalists to reflect on his murder and the impact of violence and impunity on their work. Contributors include Melissa del Bosque, Donna DeCesare, Javier Garza, Michel Marizco, Maria Teresa Ronderos, Christopher Sherman and ​Marcela Turati.

Mike Glenn, a reporter for the Houston Chronicle, writes for the first time about experiencing post traumatic stress disorder. "If the person's death was the result of foul play or a motor vehicle crash, I was their witness. Maybe it would only be a couple of lines in the paper but it was important to me, in some sort of cosmic sense, to record their passing," he writes. "They were here on this earth and I was with them."