To prepare news professionals worldwide to cover refugee and migrant children and families with greater knowledge, depth, and skills, the Dart Center will host a four-day journalism training workshop focused on children and the international refugee crisis. Twenty-five journalists from around the world will be selected to participate.
T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong discuss their Dart Award and Pulitzer Prize winning investigative project on which the new Netflix series Unbelievable is based.
In September 2016, T. Christian Miller, senior reporter for ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, writer for The Marshall Project, peeled back the layers of their Dart Award and Pulitzer Prize winning investigative project. Event video is available here. Please also consult the Dart Center's resources on covering sexual violence.
Strong gusts of wind and bands of heavy rain cover a pier at the Jensen Beach Causeway Park in Jensen Beach, Florida on September 3, 2019.
The National Hurricane Center has warned of the danger of life-threatening storm surges along hundreds of miles of the United States southeast coast in the coming days. Please consult our tips and resources on covering disaster and recovery, interviewing victims and survivors, and working with reporters exposed to traumatic events.
A local journalist covers a fire at the Comayaguela market in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on February 18, 2012.
The Dart Center is offering an intensive four-day crisis zone reporting course at Columbia Journalism School to prepare journalists to work safely and effectively in volatile situations such as war, conflict and disaster zones. With generous support from the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, the Rory Peck Trust, and the ACOS Alliance, 16 freelance journalists will be able to attend the October 24-27 course at no cost. The application deadline -- June 21, 2019 at 5:00 pm EST -- has passed.
Melody Stout, Hannah Payan, Aaliyah Alba, Sherie Gramlich and Laura Barrios comfort each other during a vigil for victims of the shooting Saturday, August 3, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. A young gunman opened fire in an El Paso, Texas, shopping area during the busy back-to-school season, leaving at least 20 dead and 26 others wounded. Less than 24 hours later, a man killed at least nine people and wounded another 16 in an entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio.
Mass shootings challenge the skill, capacity and ethics of news professionals. Consult the Dart Center's tips and resources on covering mass shootings, interviewing victims and survivors, and working with reporters exposed to traumatic events.
In January, the Dart Center brought together 24 journalists from 15 countries at the Columbia Global Center in Amman, Jordan, for a four-day reporting institute on early childhood experience and the developing brain, with a special focus on the Syrian refugee crisis and response. Reporting resources, including expert briefing materials, suggested readings and full conference video are now available here.
Top, L to R: Marcela Gaviria, June Cross, Azmat Khan; Middle, L to R: Sarah Stillman, Christiane Amanpour, May Jeong; Bottom, L to R: Jina Moore, Judith Matloff, Alexis Okeowo.
For journalists on every beat, managing personal boundaries and safety can pose difficult choices and challenges. Women journalists in particular contend with unwanted presumptions, sexual harassment and the threat of violence. The Dart Center asked nine leading women in journalism to talk about the impact of these challenges on their work, and to reflect on their own best practices. This video is the result.
