Trond Idås

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.

Trond is also a research assistant at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, University of Oslo, where he is working on a masters thesis examining trauma-related stress among journalists who covered the 2004 Asian tsunami.  He is a former journalist in the business section of Aftenposten, Norway's leading morning newspaper.