Dart Research

The Dart Center’s research unit, based at the University of Tulsa Department of Psychology, has undertaken pioneering peer-reviewed studies on newsrooms and traumatic stress, and encourages scientific and scholarly inquiry into the impact of news coverage of traumatic events.

Led by Dart Research Director Elana Newman, the University of Tulsa team manages the definitive bibliographic database of scholarly articles on the intersection of journalism and trauma.

Research priorities include:

  • Occupational risk and stress experienced by journalists across all beats and mediums;
  • Journalism craft choices and their impact on story subjects, news consumers and journalists themselves;
  • PTSD news coverage and its effects on public opinion and public health;
  • How news is framed, and its influence on consumers’ knowledge, perceptions and opinions;
  • Factors that promote journalist resiliency and well-being.

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