Journalism and the Tsunami
CNN NewsNight anchor Aaron Brown describes his approach to covering a story that “was beyond anything you could describe."
CNN NewsNight anchor Aaron Brown describes his approach to covering a story that “was beyond anything you could describe."
Crime victims whose cases are reported in the media are more likely to have negative emotional reactions to that coverage than positive ones, but there is no indication that such coverage leads to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, researchers say.
Unlike other journalists who have defied subpoenas recently, Miles Moffeit is not protecting a high-level government source or someone accused of a serious crime. He's protecting Leah Kaelin, an 18-year-old woman who says she was gang-raped at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas by four fellow airmen in June 2003.
Two acclaimed journalists discuss press and politics.
About one out of six veterans (15.6 to 17.1 percent) returning from Iraq met criteria for combat-related psychiatric disorders, including depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, researchers say in a report published today in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Atlanta — The shielding of records about children in public care has "done more to harm children and protect adults than anything else," said Jane Hansen of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. She spoke on a panel on mental-health issues co-sponsored by the Dart Center at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Atlanta.
On Sept. 23, 2002, 18-year-old Rachel Rose Burkheimer was murdered by a group of men and buried in a field in the foothills of the Cascade mountains, east of Everett, Wash. In the months since, the grisly details of the murder have been covered extensively in area newspapers.