BBC's Media Show on Journalism & Trauma
February 18, 2009 by Stan Alcorn
On today's edition of BBC's Media Show, host Ed Stourton, ABC reporter Richelle Hunt, Global Editor for Multimedia at Reuters Chris Cramer and International Editor of Channel 4 News Lindsey Hilsum discuss how journalists can best be supported when covering traumatic events. Their varied experiences--Hunt's recent coverage of the Australian bushfires, Hilsum's coverage of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and Chris Cramer's years as an editor and experience as a hostage during the 1980 Iranian embassy siege--make for an interesting exchange.