Stan Strick, former executive editor at The Daily Herald in Everett, Wash., and a strong supporter of innovative journalism focused on community reaction to trauma and violence, died June 4 from complications related to cancer treatment.
The Dart Center is looking for a part-time employee to support the website and other programs at our New York City headquarters at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The application deadline is June 12th; the start date is June 17th.
I have spent the last two days listening to debates and conversations at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum on this year’s theme: “Conflict Prevention in the Multimedia Age.” The conference has brought together constituencies who don’t often talk to one another — working journalists and NGOs and educators dedicated to developing media in post-conflict regions and emerging democracies.
Today is the first day of Deutsche Welle's annual Global Media Forum. The theme is "Conflict Prevention in the Multimedia Age." The location, as usual, is Bonn, Germany. For those of us not in Bonn, there are a few ways to follow along.
This weekend, New Zealand's Sunday Star Times carried a thoughtful article by Tim Hume on trauma as an under-discussed occupational hazard in journalism. The story's protagonist is Jim MacMillan, a Philadelphia photojournalist who found himself "virtually disabled" by what he calls his "psychological Waterloo": the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.
Yesteday's issue of The Australian carries the headline: "Crash Course in Dealing with Trauma." It's the story of journalist Mike Walter, an accidental firsthand witness to the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon.
The newly formed Emergency Media and Public Affairs group in Australia held its annual conference in Melbourne, Australia May 24-26. Network Nine news reporter Brett McLeod, who produced Dart Centre Australasia’s "News Media and Trauma" DVD, and Ochberg Fellow Gary Tippet both represented the Dart Centre at different presentations at the two-day conference.
A code to protect the safety of media professionals was launched yesterday at the "Reporting Wars: Challenges and Responsibilities" conference in Sydney, Australia.
We’re pleased to announce that Tragedies and Journalists — the Dart Center's 40-page guide for journalists, photojournalists and editors reporting on traumatic experience — has two new Chinese-language editions, one for mainland China and one for Taiwan.
One year ago, a massive earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale killed tens of thousands and displaced millions in the Sichuan province of China. In the immediate aftermath, the Chinese government permitted journalists unprecedented access to the devastation. Stories of collapsed schools and miraculous survival brought the world closer to the rural villages of China, but the work took its toll on the storytellers.