People

Kate Black is Director of Programs and Partnerships for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a global project that encourages innovative and ethical news coverage on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide. She oversees the Dart Center’s programs and activities worldwide, including the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, the Ochberg Fellowships, the Early Childhood Reporting Initiative, as well as specialized workshops, trainings, and public events. For seven years prior to joining the Dart Center, Kate was a program officer at the Open Society Foundations where she directed the Soros Justice Fellowships and founded and directed the Katrina Media Fellowships, each $1 million grantmaking programs.

Elana Newman, McFarlin Professor of Psychology at the University of Tulsa, is the Research Director for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. A past president of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, she co-directed the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma’s first satellite office in NYC after 9/11.

Dr. Newman’s scholarly work in journalism and trauma focuses on understanding the occupational health of journalists who cover traumatic events, evaluating training needs, analyzing trauma-related news, and examining the effects of journalistic practice on consumers and individuals covered in the news. She directed the development of a bibliographic database to help teachers and scholars access information about trauma and journalism, and trains journalists in trauma science, best psychological practice for interviewing survivors, self-care and best practices within newsrooms. Dr. Newman also trains clinicians and researchers on how they can better collaborate with journalists.

Dr Kimina Lyall (DPsych, clinical) is a former journalist with The Australian newspaper and Time Australia. During her 15 year career as a reporter, she worked across the paper, on stories as diverse as politics, the Olympics, features and as Southeast Asia correspondent. During that posting she became a survivor of the Boxing Day tsunami, and later wrote a book on the experience Out of the Blue: Facing the Tsunami.

Ariel Ritchin is the Senior Producer for the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, a project of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism encouraging innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide. He directs and oversees all editorial content and leads strategic and digital initiatives, while managing specialized programs, workshops and trainings for reporters all over the world. Ariel is also a multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker whose audio and video work has appeared on Life of the Law, NBC News and PBS Newshour, among others. He has previously worked in the multimedia department at the ACLU and as a video editor for Lucky Tiger Productions. He is a Logan Nonfiction Fellow, a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow and a Posse Foundation Scholar. Ariel holds an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. from Middlebury College. 

Krystal Grow is the Program Manager of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. She was a Senior Photo Editor on the Global Picture Desk at Getty Images from 2014-2019, and from 2019-2023 managed live photo coverage and production logistics for major arts and entertainment events as a Senior Assignment Specialist, providing on-site support for photographers, editors, production staff, and high profile clients. She earned an MA from the Columbia Journalism School in 2013 and her writing on photography has appeared in American Photography, TIME LightBox, WIRED, and the New York Times Lens blog. She has produced and managed events, exhibitions, and public programs for Photoville, the largest public photography festival in the country, the DOC NYC film festival, the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, the Special Collections of the Providence Public Library, and the Narrowsburg Union. In 2021, she founded Greyscale Darkroom and Photo Lab, the only publicly accessible community darkroom and photo space in Sullivan County, New York. 

Jeanny Gering is Network Director at Dart Centre Europe. She is a TV-News and Documentary Film producer in Germany. She has worked with international broadcasters like the BBC, CBS and Arte. She’s also a screenwriter. Jeanny has worked with Dart Centre Europe since 2012 in diverse roles. Since returning from parental leave Jeanny grows and strengthens the outstanding network of journalists and clinicians who are part of Dart Centre Europe. She coordinates Dart Centre Europe trainers and liaises with partner organisations interested in receiving training in trauma informed reporting and self care for journalists. Jeanny is passionate about listening to individual network members and supporting them in creating innovative, timely initiatives with Dart Centre Europe which support trauma informed journalism and a resilient journalism culture. As Network Manager Jeanny works closely with DCEs Development Director Juliana Ruhfus, as well as colleagues at Dart US and Dart Asia Pacific.

Judith Matloff teaches crisis reporting at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. She trailblazed safety training for women and media organizations around the world, helping hundreds of journalists survive an increasingly dangerous world. Over 40 years as a journalist, she has covered top international stories including Rwanda’s genocide, apartheid and the rise of Vladimir Putin. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, the Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal. Earlier in her career, Matloff headed the Moscow and Africa bureaus of the Christian Science Monitor and she spent a decade reporting for Reuters from various countries.

Juliana Ruhfus is the Development Director Dart Centre Europe. She is a multi-award winning filmmaker, presenter and executive producer specialised in investigative and current-affairs
programming for global broadcasters. Juliana was selected as a Dart Centre Ochberg Fellow in 2012 and joined the board of trustees for the Dart Centre Europe shortly later. Amidst a growing mental health awareness in newsrooms Juliana sees research-based trauma-awareness as key to ensuring that not just media practitioners but also vulnerable contributors are treated with the necessary care and respect. Since November 2021 Juliana has been leading DCE's transition into a more decentralised European organisation with a growing number of fundable trauma and journalism programmes that reflect the changing news environment and the needs of journalists and media organisations.

Zan Strumfeld is the Communications & Program Associate at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Zan joins the Dart Center with more than a decade of multi-faceted editorial, publishing and journalism experience. For four years, she was the Program Manager at the Logan Nonfiction Program, the leading residential fellowship program in the U.S. that exclusively supports longform nonfiction. She has worked as both a full-time and freelance reporter for newspapers and magazines, macro editor and copy editor, and as an advertising agency copywriter. Zan is also the founder of Zealous Scribbler Literary Services — a one-woman-shop for all literary needs including editing, ghostwriting, marketing and book launch/event planning. She is a graduate of the State University of New York at New Paltz, where she studied journalism, English and creative writing.

Zan splits her time with the Dart Center and as Program Manager with ACOS Alliance, a coalition of news organizations, journalist associations and press freedom NGOs working together to embed a culture of safety within journalism.

Stefan Borg is a senior foreign news correspondent and commentator at the TV4 Sweden news department. For more than twenty years he has reported from around the world on politics, conflicts and natural disasters. Stefan arrived early to cover the earth quakes in Haiti in 2010 and Nepal in 2015 as well as the typhoon in the Philippines in 2013. He has reported from the Balkan wars, the Middle East conflict including the first Gulf War 1991, the Gaza War 2014, the ”Arab Spring” in Egypt and the civil war in Libya 2011. Stefan was a New York based US Correspondent for TV4 1998-2003 and a Berlin based Eastern Europe correspondent for Swedish news paper Aftonbladet 1990-1992. Stefan has developed and handles travel security routines in hostile areas for TV4. He is a 2013 Ochberg Fellow.

A Chartered Member of the CIPD, Patricia Deane has extensive senior HR management experience and is currently the Head of People & Organisational Development at the Northern Ireland Hospice in Belfast. In a career spanning over 30 years Patricia has led teams of HR professionals in the public, private and Third sectors in Northern Ireland including, broadcasting and print media, retail and more recently in Hospices in Northern Ireland.  

Committed to achieving and maintaining effective HR practices that deliver for the business, Patricia has a proven track record in leadership and management development, change management and employee relations. An ILM accredited coach, Patricia works to embed a coaching culture into organisations and see this approach as the best way to enhance knowledge and skills and grow the potential of staff to develop into effective managers and leaders of the future.

A Graduate of the University of Ulster, she holds a Humanities Degree in French and Politics, a Masters in Business Administration, and Post-Graduate Certificates and Diplomas in Human Resources and in Learning & Development.

As a journalist, I worked for many years at SPIEGEL ONLINE and DER SPIEGEL: as editor, reporter, head of department and editor-in-chief. I have been rewarded as “Editor-in-Chief of the Year”. As a coach and consultant, I work with individuals and teams. This often involves personal and strategic development, conflict resolution and the digital transformation of organisations.

I have worked as a researcher at the universities of Münster, Hamburg, Sussex (UK) and at Columbia University, New York, and completed my doctorate with a multidisciplinary thesis on trust. Trust has been the focus of my scientific research for about 20 years and it forms the bracket of my academic and practical work: trust as a prerequisite for successful journalism, successful leadership and the basis of an innovative corporate culture.

As a communication scientist, I deal with the (re)gaining and loss of trust. Because trust is a prerequisite for all successful communication. Since the boundaries between coaching and therapy are sometimes fluid, it is helpful to understand issues even more deeply. Therefore, I have completed additional training and also work as a systemic therapist. This knowledge enriches my trainings, especially on trauma and journalism and self-care/resilience.

I have been involved with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (NY) since 2005 and am working as a director of Dart Center Europe since 2021. I developed the first curriculum for journalism and trauma in Europe and taught it at universities and journalism schools. As a trainer I work with editorial offices on issues around trauma, self-care and ethical reporting. For more Information about my work and background: www.barbarahans.de

Dr. Zahera Harb is director of MA International Journalism and MA Media and Globalisation (Erasmus Mundus) programs at City University of London. Her publications include an edited collection titled “Reporting the Middle East: the Practice of News in the 21st Century” (IB Tauris 2017) and an edited collection with Dina Matar titled “Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communication Practices in Palestine and Lebanon” (IB Tauris 2013) and a monograph titled “Channels of Resistance: Liberation Propaganda Hezbollah and the Media“ (IB Tauris, 2011). She has published widely on Journalism and Politics in the Arab region. She is co-editor of Bloomsbury-IB Tauris book series with Dr Dina Matar on “Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa”. She is co-editor of Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. She is Associate editor of the internationally renowned top ranking academic journal Journalism Practice.

Jana D. Javakhishvili is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute of Addiction Studies at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 2020 she is a Trustee of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma Europe (DCE). Since 2006 she is heavily engaged in the projects of the Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry (FGIP) focused at improving human rights-based mental health care in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, and other war- and political oppressions-affected countries. She is the Past President of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS). Currently, she is on the board of directors of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), leads the Global Crisis – Armed Conflict Thematic Group of the Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress (GC-TS) and serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT). Her research interests focus on exploring mental health and psychosocial well-being of war- and political oppression-affected populations.

Stephen Jukes is Professor of Journalism at Bournemouth University's Faculty of Media & Communication, one of the largest of its kind in Europe with an international reputation for combining research, teaching and professional practice. His research focuses on areas of objectivity and emotion in news with an emphasis on trauma and conflict journalism. He was previously a foreign correspondent and editor at the international news agency Reuters. During a series of overseas postings he covered or oversaw coverage of stories ranging from the ousting of Margaret Thatcher to the fall of the Berlin Wall, two Gulf Wars and September 11. In his final position at Reuters, he was Global Head of News and executive editor for a series of books on the Middle East conflict.  He chairs the Dart Centre for Journalism & Trauma in Europe and is a trustee of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting.

Sacha Mirzoeff is an award-winning filmmaker, currently working as an Executive Producer at BBC Bristol overseeing the documentary output. He specialises in social issue documentaries shot over long periods of time. Mirzoeffs's credits include Protecting our Children, Charles Darwin and The Tree of Life, My Foetus, Witch Child and Shooting Under Fire, and his awards include the Deutsche Fersehpreis and the Grierson award, in addition to multiple BAFTA nominations.

Anne Bourges is a journalist on the French daily newspaper La Montagne. For more than 15 years she has been covering crime, social affairs and general news. She began writing for French regional papers in the early 1990s after a period working on publications in Canada. Since 2007 she has been involved in creating a Dart network for France and the Francophone world.
 

Elaine Cobbe is a seasoned news journalist with more than 20 years of experience of covering international events. A correspondent for CBS News, she is based in Paris and has reported from around the world, including Iraq, Kosovo and Rwanda. She is also a regular commentator of French news on radio in Ireland, South Africa and New Zealand.

Liselotte Englund is Head of Department (Prefect) of Environmental and Life Sciences; Faculty of Health, Science and Technology at Karlstad University, Sweden. She is also Assistant Professor of Media and Communication Studies, stationed at Risk Management. Besides she is a member of the Universitys’ Executive Committes at Center for Public Safety and Health Academy. She is a former postdoctoral fellow at the National Centre of Disaster Psychiatry at Uppsala University and a freelance journalist who runs her own company, Liselotte Englund Media AB.

Chiung-wen (Julia) Hsu is an associate professor of College of Communication at National Cheng Chi University in Taiwan. She has a PhD in communication from the State University of New York at Buffalo and she has been working on media coverage of victims since 2004. 

Trond Idås is an advisor for the Norwegian Union of Journalists, and is responsible for national courses in safety and trauma training for professional journalists. He lectures in journalism and truama at Oslo University College.

Milorad Ivanovic is the deputy editor-in-chief of Blic, the largest Serbian daily newspaper. He was previously the paper’s foreign affairs editor and has a special interest in investigative and cross-border journalism. Milorad founded the Media Focus, Center for Investigative Journalism in Serbia and is on the board of SCOOP, a network of investigative journalists working in East and Southeastern Europe.