
Reporting and Covid-19: Tips for Journalists
Tips and tools to report safely and effectively during the coronavirus pandemic, updated regularly following Dart Center webinars.
Tips and tools to report safely and effectively during the coronavirus pandemic, updated regularly following Dart Center webinars.
As the first wave of exhausted news teams rotates out, the story enters a new phase — and news managers need to be prepared to provide informed support.
For those reporting on the natural disasters in China and Myanmar, the Dart Center has assembled tip sheets, advice and reflection from journalists on past catastrophes and other resources of relevance.
Nearly every journalist in the course of their career will interview people who have experienced significant trauma. But how many receive any training for the task? This article describes how role-playing traumatic incidents might give student journalists valuable insight and hone crucial interviewing skills.
Now that a major storm has struck the same regions that were battered last year, people face something called re-traumatization. What does that mean and what can we do about it?
An interview by Meg Spratt with Betty Pfefferbaum, a research psychiatrist and professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.
Betty Pfefferbaum, winner of the first ISTSS Frank Ochberg Award for Research in Trauma and the Media, discusses what journalists can learn from her research.
A national panel of experts in suicide, behavioral science and the media cautions and advises journalists on how to report this sensitive subject.
For its unsentimental focus on Emmett Jackson's recovery from the arson death of his wife and child and his own extensive injuries. Originally published in the Austin American-Statesman in two parts on Sept. 4, 1994, and Sept. 5, 1994.