Dart Centre Asia Pacific and WAN-IFRA will offer a special training series on how to protect against and prevent trauma, and help newsrooms build resiliency. This series will equip participants with the skills to support colleagues exposed to trauma, educate staff on self-care and basic trauma literacy, and put in place workplace processes which safeguard employees’ mental health and well-being. Click here to register.
Journalists report from the destruction that was caused by a wildfire that swept through Lake Keswick Estates near Redding, California on July 27, 2018.
"Do your research. Ask who your story is for. Report on recovery and aftermath." On October 19, journalists Lizzie Johnson, Peter Drought, Lauren Markham and Karen Percy discussed the practice of reporting on wildfires in Australia and in the United States. They also shared thoughts on how to sensitively approach themes of aftermath, recovery and community resilience, considering the ethics of reporting safely and responsibly. The full event video, a companion tip sheet and additional Dart Center resources on covering disaster are now available here.
A journalist works on his laptop amid items left behind by protesters in Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong on November 26, 2019.
A collaboration between ACOS Alliance and Dart Centre Asia Pacific, this guide is designed to help editors and managers understand and support their teams. It is divided into five sections covering both general information and specific suggestions and tips for working with freelance journalists. Click here to download the full guide.
The body and the mind are deeply linked. To enhance our mental wellbeing when working on traumatic or high stress assignments, we must attend to our bodies, and move. Take a break from work and join former foreign correspondent and Dart Centre Asia Pacific Deputy Director, Kimina Lyall, for a series of yoga stretches. No prior experience required.
The Dart Centre Asia Pacific In Ten vodcast is a series of ten-minute chats with journalists, camera operators and other news professionals from across the globe about self-care and reporting in the time of coronavirus. How are these journalists caring for themselves and their craft in the midst of this pandemic? What unique reporting challenges have emerged? And what’s stayed the same? What lessons have they learned that they will carry forward beyond the pandemic?
American citizens wave from a bus as they leave the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship at Daikoku Pier to be repatriated to the United States on February 17, 2020 in Yokohama, Japan.
More than threee million people have been infected with coronavirus disease (COVID-19), fueling a worldwide pandemic. As of this writing, at least 200,000 people have died. As the numbers continue to rise, we have assembled resources for journalists on covering disaster and epidemic, interviewing victims and survivors, and working with colleagues exposed to traumatic events in English and Chinese.
Participants from the Dart Centre’s 2018 Indigenous Trauma reporting workshop pose for a group photo in the Blue Mountains, just outside of Sydney, Australia.
After facilitating one of the largest gatherings of Indigenous journalists last year, Dart Centre Asia Pacific will make permanent a position on its Board of Director’s for a First Nations person, and create an ongoing scholarship for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island journalist to attend the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism's prestigious Summer Investigative Reporting Course in New York City.
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.
