Story Ideas: Trauma Journalism in the Time of Coronavirus
May 13, 2020 by Rachel Dissell
How can journalists start thinking about aftermath when there is no end in sight?
Resources for Aftermath & Anniversaries, Children & Youth
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Talking to Children about the Mass Shooting at Christchurch
March 27, 2019
For more information, please contact Dr. Gurwitch at [email protected] or Elana Newman at [email protected].
Fifty Years On: Remembering the Aberfan Disaster
October 20, 2016 by Stephen Jukes
Stephen Jukes, chair of Dart Europe’s board of trustees and professor of journalism at Bournemouth University, reflects on a conference held to mark the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan tragedy in South Wales and how media frame such tragedies.
A Survivor’s Life
April 12, 2016 by Eli Saslow, Jabin Botsford
This searing, intimate feature tells the story of Cheyeanne Fitzgerald, the youngest survivor of the Umpqua Community College shooting in Roseburg Oregon, as she struggles against myriad challenges in the massacre’s aftermath. Judges described “A Survivor’s Story” as an “eye-opening,” “brutally honest" portrait of the intense difficulties and complexities of trauma and recovery. Originally published in the Washington Post in December, 2015.
Symposium: Sandy Hook and Beyond
March 29, 2013
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The daylong symposium: Sandy Hook and Beyond: Breaking News, Trauma and Aftermath took place on Monday at Columbia University. Regional and national journalists were joined by community leaders, mental health experts, policy advocates and Sandy Hook families and shared perspectives, discussed lessons learned and pointed the way towards responsible news coverage going forward.
Four Lessons on School Shootings
December 4, 2009 by Meg Moritz
Dark, cold, grey, brooding Helsinki. This was the backdrop for Violence in the Networked Society, an international conference hosted by University of Helsinki’s Communication Research Center on Nov. 6 and 7, 2009. It was a particularly poignant setting, because in 2007 and again in 2008 Finland was the site of school shootings that together left 18 students murdered. In this highly literate and socially conscious society, the sense of communal grief was profound — a national trauma.
Reporting the Columbine Anniversary
April 21, 2009 by Stan Alcorn
Yesterday, for the 10th anniversary of the most infamous school shooting, the Dart Center published a package for student journalists and educators on covering similar incidents; today, we took a look around the web and through our archive for more.
Returning to Beslan
March 20, 2009 by Johnathan Charles
Since the tragic events in the Russian town of Beslan two months ago, when more than 400 children and adults died after being taken hostage by militants demanding independence for Chechnya, counselling centres have been working hard to try to help the survivors.
Virginia Learns from Columbine
February 25, 2008
As the one year anniversary of the Virgina Tech massacre approaches, Donna Alvis-Banks of the Roanoke Times seeks guidance from the survivors of the Columbine school shooting.
Covering Columbine
April 20, 2000 by Meg Moritz
A 57-minute documentary on the traumatic impact of the Columbine High School shootings on students, families, the community and journalists.