Sept 30, 2021
2021 Dart Awards Presentation & Roundtable, hosted by Kate Snow
6:00pm EST
NBC News' Kate Snow will host this year's Dart Awards ceremony.
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Sept 22, 2021
"What Happened to You?" A Conversation with Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
6:00pm EST
How does childhood adversity shape adult lives? And how can we tell better stories about it?
Dart Center Trainings: What Newsrooms Say
August 31, 2021
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma provides customized training and consultation services around the U.S. and worldwide to newsrooms and organizations engaged in related work. Led by senior Dart Center-affiliated journalists and mental-health professionals, virtual and in-person training offerings range from overall trauma awareness, self-care and resilience programs to workshops on specific skills such as trauma-informed interviewing and managing online harassment.
We Call On G7 Countries To Evacuate Journalists in Afghanistan
August 23, 2021
Ahead of the G7 summit on the situation in Afghanistan, the Dart Center has joined hundreds of organizations in calling on G7 countries to make a clear and explicit commitment to taking journalists and media workers as an urgent and immediate priority, ensure their protection and evacuate them and their families.
We ask that G7 members:
Resources for Covering Civil Unrest
August 17, 2021
A host of resources that can help journalists and newsrooms as they take steps to prepare for civil unrest or volatility.
(This resource was originally published on January 19 2021, following the attack on the U.S. Capitol, when more than 25,000 National Guard were deployed ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20th.)
Apply Now: Outreach Producer, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Project
August 12, 2021
The Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma in Europe (DCE) has been engaged over the past two years in a project to produce best practice guidelines for journalists covering conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). It is now seeking to fill a seven-month contract to deepen the outreach of this new resource so that journalists and filmmakers around the world have the opportunity to build the principles in these guidelines into their working practice.
Pioneering Leader in Trauma Journalism Set to Retire
July 15, 2021
Trauma expert Dr. Cait McMahon, OAM, will retire from her role as Dart Centre Asia Pacific Managing Director later this year, following a 30-year career helping media workers better understand the impact of trauma on themselves and on those they report on.
How Can Indigenous Reporters Care for Themselves While Covering Trauma — and How Can Their Newsrooms Help?
July 14, 2021
In the last months, the remains of over a thousand people, including at least hundreds of Indigenous children, have been discovered on the properties of former residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan. These discoveries have brought to the fore — for now — a subject that has long remained at the margins of mainstream media coverage in the United States: the genocide of millions of Indigenous people by colonizers.
Dart Center Style Guide for Trauma-Informed Journalism
June 22, 2021 by Isobel Thompson
This Dart Center style guide is designed as a quick, authoritative reference for reporters, editors and producers working on tight deadlines. It includes brief evidence-informed guidance on news choices, language usage and ethics in reporting on the impact of trauma on individuals, families and communities; recommendations for appropriate use of relevant psychological and scientific terminology; and special considerations when reporting on consequential trauma-laden issues such as racism and sexual violence.
Resources for Journalists Coping With Trauma
June 21, 2021 by Elana Newman, Naseem S. Miller
Dr. Elana Newman, The Dart Center's Research Director, and Naseem S. Miller, Senior Health Editor for The Journalist’s Resource, assembled a list of resources for coping with trauma as part of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference in June 2021.