Training Sessions

• Trauma-aware reporting on vulnerable individuals and communities
• Self-care and resilience for trauma-exposed news professionals
• Leadership strategies and duty of care: Managing trauma and stress on news teams
• Handling graphic imagery
• Planning for mass-casualty coverage
• Peer support for news organizations
• Managing online abuse and threat

We offer both on-site and remote newsroom briefings and consultations, and can help to develop a customized program for your newsroom or team.

Dart Center training is guided by the following values and approaches:

• Evidence-informed trauma awareness and resilience practices drawing on current science and lessons from other trauma-facing professions
• The highest standards of journalism ethics and craft
• Awareness of the impact of trauma on journalists and newsrooms, mitigated by simple approaches to peer support and management tactics for dealing with trauma exposure. 

Training covers:

• What to expect; how to monitor how staff are holding up; building resilience in the face of undertaking very difficult stories; how to care for staff and mitigate the impact that traumatic events they cover could have on them directly.

• Newsroom planning and protocols before, during and after traumatic events.

• Language to talk about trauma; training so newsroom managers and staff can be resources to one another

• Management techniques for managing and supporting staff under stress

If you are interested in setting up a training for your newsroom or organization, contact [email protected].

Clients and partners include:

• Associated Press (USA)
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Australia)
• British Broadcasting Corporation (UK)
• Bournemouth University Media School (UK)
• Buzzfeed (USA)
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Canada)
• Canadian Forum on Journalism and Trauma (Canada)
• Center for Global Studies, Center for Investigative Reporting (USA)
• Henry M. Jackson School, University of Washington (USA)
• Committee to Protect Journalists (USA)
• Data Minr (USA)
• Digital First Media (USA)
• DW-AKADEMIE (Germany)
• Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (Colombia)
• Frontline Club (UK)
• Gannett (USA)
• Global Investigative Journalism Network (USA)
• Human Rights Watch (USA)
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting (UK)
• International News Safety Institute (UK)
• International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (USA)
• Investigative Reporters and Editors (USA)
• KQED (USA)
• Los Angeles Times (USA)
• Minnesota Star Tribune (USA)
• National Public Radio (USA)
• National Union of Journalists (Philippines)
• New Hampshire Public Radio (USA)
• New York Public Radio (USA)
• NBC (USA)
• Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University (USA)
• NPR (USA)
• Orlando Sentinel (USA)
• Patch (USA)
• Philadelphia Inquirer (USA)
• ProPublica (USA)
• Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (USA)
• Rory Peck Trust (UK)
• Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (USA)
• Russian Union of Journalists (Russia)
• Seattle Times (USA)
• Southern California Public Radio (USA)
• Swinburne University of Technology (Australia)
• The Atlantic (USA)
• Times-Picayune (USA)
• Twitter (USA)
• Voice of San Diego (USA)
• Wall Street Journal (USA)
• WAMU (USA)
• WCCO-Minneapolis (USA)
• WBBM-Chicago (USA)
• WBUR (USA)
• Yayasan Pulih (Indonesia)