In partnership with the Rory Peck Trust and Facebook, Dart Centre Europe will deliver workshops to give freelance journalists a safe space to learn more about trauma and how to build their resilience. Apply here.
An incarcerated person waits at the Bolivar County Correctional Facility to receive a Covid-19 vaccination on April 28, 2021 in Cleveland, Mississippi.
Online editor Camille Baker spoke with Akiba Solomon, a senior editor at The Marshall Project, about "The Language Project," the publication's series on accurate and responsible coverage of incarcerated people.
People wait to leave at the Kabul airport, as thousands try to flee Afghanistan, on August 16, 2021.
Ahead of the G7 summit on the situation in Afghanistan, the Dart Center has joined hundreds of organizations in calling on G7 countries to make a clear and explicit commitment to taking journalists and media workers as an urgent and immediate priority, ensure their protection and evacuate them and their families.
How can we tell better stories about childhood adversity? Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry joined Dart Center executive director Bruce Shapiro in September for a conversation about trauma, resilience, neuroscience and the news agenda. Full event video is now available.
Susan McNeil, center, a nurse at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, is consoled by colleagues Nakia Brown, left, and Na-Keisha Baxter at a funeral. From "Contagion of Fear," in TIME June 2020.
The Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma recognize exemplary journalism on the impact of violence, crime, disaster and other traumatic events on individuals, families or communities. This year, NBC News' Kate Snow hosted a live virtual ceremony featuring roundtable discussions that illuminated the questions of craft, ethics and storytelling in the journalists' work, and explored innovative best practices in hard-hitting, humane reporting on violence and tragedy. Full event video is now available.
This style guide is designed as a quick, authoritative reference for reporters, editors and producers working on tight deadlines. It includes brief evidence-informed guidance on news choices, language usage and ethics in reporting on the impact of trauma on individuals, families and communities; recommendations for appropriate use of relevant psychological and scientific terminology; and special considerations when reporting on consequential trauma-laden issues such as racism and sexual violence.
A journalist works on his laptop amid items left behind by protesters in Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong on November 26, 2019.
A collaboration between ACOS Alliance and Dart Centre Asia Pacific, this guide is designed to help editors and managers understand and support their teams. It is divided into five sections covering both general information and specific suggestions and tips for working with freelance journalists. Click here to download the full guide.
To aid journalists challenged by covering violence, crisis and tragedy, the Dart Center is launching an innovative training program preparing psychologists to work effectively with news professionals. The Journalist Trauma Support Network provides training on journalists’ professional culture, occupational challenges, and data security to experienced trauma psychologists, and then aids these clinicians with peer support, continuing education, and a lasting professional network. In collaboration with the Committee to Protect Journalists, JTSN also provides a pathway for journalists to connect with JTSN-trained therapists for culturally competent care.
A pilot program training therapists to help journalists.
