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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 20: Audrey Herrell brought yellow sunflowers to a memorial near Club Q where a 22-year-old gunman entered an LGBTQ nightclub killing at least five people and injuring 25 others on November 20, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 

Resources for Editors and Reporters Covering the Colorado Springs and UVA shootings

November 21, 2022

The U.S. has once again been hit with a spate of mass shootings in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Charlottesville, Virginia. The Dart Center has a host of resources for newsrooms tasked with covering these tragedies and the aftermath. 

Visit the JTSN website to learn more about the program

Dart Center and International Women's Media Foundation Launch New Journalist Support Partnership

November 17, 2022

The Dart Center, in partnership with IWMF, is pleased to announce the launch of the 2023 Journalist Trauma Support Network (JTSN) training program. JTSN trains mental health clinicians to effectively support journalists challenged by covering violence, crisis and tragedy, and provides free, time-limited therapy to journalists in distress. “Pandemic, social unrest and conflict, threats and harassment are all taking a toll on news professionals’ mental health,” says Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center. “Establishing a community of clinicians committed to supporting trauma-affected journalists serves individual news professionals and advances a free and resilient press."

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Timothy keeps watch for submerged cars aboard a boat navigating through Hollygrove, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the city in August 2005.

The Dart Center Style Guide for Trauma-Informed Journalism

June 22, 2021 by Isobel Thompson

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.

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A memorial site near the scene of a shooting at a Fourth of July parade, on July 7, 2022 in Highland Park, Illinois. Authorities have charged the shooter with seven counts of first-degree murder in the attack that also injured 47, according to published reports. 

Resources for Editors and Reporters Covering Gun Violence

July 8, 2022

The Dart Center has gathered a selection of resources to support journalists as they cover recent incidents of gun violence and mass shootings in the United States and around the world.

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From the Los Angeles Times' Dart-Award winning series "Disease, Inequity and Resilience in South L.A."

2022 Dart Award Winners Announced

May 5, 2022

The 2022 Dart Awards went to The Atavist for "A Feast for Lost Souls" and to the Los Angeles Times for "Disease, Inequity and Resilience in South L.A." Honorable mentions went to NPR, The Outlaw Ocean Project and Vanity Fair. "The 2022 Dart Award honorees all illuminate trauma as a shared experience, portraying communities bound together by grief, outrage and a quest for justice," said Bruce Shapiro, the Dart Center’s executive director. "While the issues involved vary – COVID-19, police violence, forced migration and disappearances, attacks on journalists themselves – all of this year's honorees show exceptional commitment to the voices of survivors and their complex, varied and often brave trajectories."

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Smusa Wenkeosa (L), 22, who suffers severe breathing pathologies and kidney failure, is seen in her house in Vosman, Mpumalanga, on March 31, 2022 with her daughter Velo (C), 1, who is suffering from asthma, and her mother Thandive (R), 62. In a groundbreaking ruling, a court has ordered the South African government to reduce air pollution in a coal-mining belt ranked by Greenpeace as the world's most polluting cluster.

Announcing the 2022 Early Childhood Global Reporting Fellows

May 2, 2022

The Dart Center has announced the recipients of its 2022 Early Childhood Global Reporting Fellowship. The program will support 15 journalists around the world undertaking projects on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on young children’s growth, development and wellbeing. The Fellowship, running from May through November, is being led by audio journalist, Karen Brown, in collaboration with independent journalists Irene Caselli and Joanne Silberner, and CNN Investigates senior writer, Bob Ortega. 

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Meet the 2022 Early Childhood Latin America Fellows

April 28, 2022

The Dart Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 Early Childhood Reporting Latin America Fellowship. The program will support 20 journalists over 6-months undertaking projects on inequality and the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on young children’s growth, development, and wellbeing. The Fellowship is sponsored by the Bernard van Leer Foundation, Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal, and The Two Lilies Fund. Para visualizar em português, clique aqui. Para español haga clic aquí.

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A young refugee girl fleeing Ukraine walks across the tracks as she arrives at the border train station of Zahony on March 08, 2022 in Zahony, Hungary. More than 2 million refugees have fled Ukraine since the start of Russia's military offensive, according to the UN. Hungary has welcomed more than 144,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine after Russia began a large-scale attack on Ukraine on February 24. 

How to Report Ethically on Children Affected by the Ukraine Conflict

March 8, 2022 by Irene Caselli

As events in Ukraine continue to unfold quickly and dramatically, children and young people are in danger - one million are already on the move. 

This tipsheet brings together advice from Dart fellows who have reported on children in war and other emergency situations.

 

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Resources for Reporters and Editors Covering the Conflict in Ukraine

February 24, 2022

Today Russian military forces launched multiple attacks on Ukraine. As an immediate response, the Dart Center has assembled this list of resources for local and international journalists and editors who are covering this fast-developing crisis.

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Dart launches clinician training program to support trauma-exposed journalists

June 15, 2021

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.

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Journalist Trauma Support Network

A pilot program training therapists to help journalists.