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.

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."

The Dart Center has announced the recipients of its first ever reporting fellowships on gun violence. The fellows will have up to nine months to work on print, radio and multimedia projects in the Midwestern United States. These fellowships were made possible by the Joyce Foundation and New Venture Fund.

Of the many crises unleashed by America’s November 8 election, that faced by journalism is high on the list. Combine the fact that so much campaign reporting simply got this election wrong with the escalating hostility, harassment, and threats directed at news professionals and media companies, and you have a grimly astringent moment of reckoning.

Founded twenty-five years ago this month, Disaster Action has helped to reshape how the British political and legal systems respond to the needs of victims and survivors of public tragedies. In this edited interview, Pam Dix and Anne Eyre discuss their experiences with such disasters as Hillsborough, Lockerbie and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, and its relevance for journalists covering the still unfolding aftermath of such events.

In Britain, only one in eight victims of child sexual abuse is brought to the attention of authorities. But over the past few years, high profile cases of child abuse in the United Kingdom have been exposed and widely reported on. Journalists Alex Renton, Katharine Quarmby and Olly Lambert spoke with the Dart Center about the challenges of reporting on child abuse, and trauma experts Sarah Heke and Shelagh Beckett offer guidance on how to ethically and effectively interview victims of childhood trauma.