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.
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.
Top, L to R: Kelly Whalen, Marko Drobnjakovic, Nour Malas, Brandon Stahl, Almudena Toral; Middle, L to R: Sanne Terlingen, Darran Simon, Melissa Bailey, Cengiz Yar; Bottom, L to R: Ronna Risquez, Sameer Yasir, Joyce Wangui, Aaron Smale, Connie Walker.
The Dart Center has announced the recipients of the 2019 Ochberg Fellowship, a program that deepens journalists' reporting of violence, conflict and tragedy. This year’s Fellows include outstanding senior and mid-career journalists in all media, representing eight nations and six continents. “Their journalism illuminates some of the most profound challenges of our time, among them refugees and migration, war and reconciliation, mass killing and violence against women,” said Bruce Shapiro, the Dart Center’s executive director. The Fellows will be in residence at Columbia University July 22 - 27, 2019.
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.
This year's Dart Awards went to Michigan Radio for two episodes of "Believed" and to NOLA.com | The Times Picayune for "The Children of Central City." Honorable mentions went to Radio Canada International – Eye on the Arctic and to The Star Tribune. The annual Dart Awards recognize outstanding reporting in all media that portrays traumatic events with accuracy, insight and sensitivity while illuminating the effects of violence and tragedy on victims’ lives. Click for video coverage from the Awards ceremony and winners' roundtable.
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.
Vehkoo and Nieminen are also the authors of The Internet of Hate and Loathing, a book of comics journalism about online misogyny.
"Save all threatening or offensive material. Immediately block anyone sending you hate messages. Tell your boss that you are being targeted. Look after your data security. Try not to take it personally." A tip sheet for journalists and newsroom managers on dealing with online hate speech and harassment, originally published by The Union of Journalists in Finland.
Ambulance staff aid a man outside a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, March 15, 2019. Forty-nine people were killed in mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers.
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.
A technician works in the "Acquisition Room", which receives televison feeds from around the world, during an event to mark the opening of the new Univision and Fusion television networks newsroom in Doral, Florida August 28, 2013.
A standard operating procedure (S.O.P.) is a device for building a systematic approach to a task. This guide, written by Dart Centre Europe Director Gavin Rees, goes through a series of structured steps for how to craft a personalised workflow for handling graphic content that depicts death, injury, and other violations.
The Dart Center surveyed 247 journalists around the world about the safety trainings they attended, the skills they acquired and the gaps between these trainings and their professional needs on the ground. This report, prepared by an interdisciplinary team of researchers in psychology, occupational safety and journalism practice, details the results.
