Dart Blog

“This is the first time I’ve ever done an entire program on one single topic like this,” said Radio New Zealand’s Colin Peacock.

In the wake of the shooting of teen activist Malala Yousufzai, a filmmaker who portraited her writes of his attachment and obligation to his subject.  

The Dart Center has launched a new online library of Spanish-language resources for journalists.  This webpage serves as a gateway to a wide range of Spanish-language reporting guides, tipsheets and videos, aimed at working journalists, journalism educators and students.

Two more journalists have died in Syria: reporter Marie Colvin of London's Sunday Times and French photographer Rémi Ochlik. Colvin's last report from Homs was a BBC interview the day before she was killed. "I counted 14 shells… I watched a little baby die today. Absolutely horrific. No one here can understand how the international community can let this happen."

On December 2, Afnan Khan was driving home from his job as senior reporter at the Daily Times in Lahore Pakistan when a Land Cruiser pulled across his path on a deserted road. Two gunmen leapt out, took aim and ordered him from his car. 

Three veteran news professionals from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are missing and presumed dead in a helicopter crash in the South Australia desert. Videographer and photographer John Bean, reporter Paul Lockyer and pilot Gary Ticehurst were on assignment in a region some 800 kilometers north of Adelaide on the evening of August 18 when their copter went down.

On June 5, while Dart Centre Asia Pacific was running its first  workshop on covering trauma, war crimes and sexual violence in Bangladesh,  a terrible incident of intimate partner violence elsewhere in the country captured the attention of reporters: Hasan Sayeed brutally assaulted his wife Rumana Munzur, shoving his fingers into her eyes and blinding her.

Norway is mourning the shooting deaths of at least 68 people at a youth camp on the small island of Uoteya. The massacre came hours after a powerful explosion rocked central Oslo, killing at least eight people and blowing out most of the windows on the block where Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg works. For journalists and news managers covering the aftermath of these attacks, the Dart Center has assembled resources and tipsheets gleaned from past mass shootings, terrorist attacks and disasters.

In a special report just published by the Committee to Protect Journalists, news professionals disclose sexual assaults they have experienced in the course of their work. Plus, CPJ's Security Guide has been updated to include new information on coping with the threat of sexual abuse.  

Fellows from the Dart Centre Asia Pacific programme add their voices to the protest over contempt charges filed by the Philippine Court of Appeals against a journalist and the widow of one of the victims of the 2009 Maguindinao massacre.