Resources for Training

Call for Applications: Reporting on Refugees and Migration Through the Eyes of Children
The Dart Center is hosting a four-day journalism training workshop focused on children and the international refugee crisis.

Op-Ed: "Our Role is to Campaign" DCAP Hosts Retreat for Aboriginal Journalists
Amy McQuire reflects on a Dart Centre Asia Pacific retreat focussed on Indigenous trauma reporting, and explains why she believes Aboriginal journalists need to embrace an advocate's role.
Reporting Resources: Covering Children and the Syrian Refugee Crisis

Essential Tips for Interviewing Children
Be human first. Do as much pre-reporting as possible. Find out what questions the child has been asking. When possible, immerse. Make them comfortable. Leave them in a good place. Verify what they’ve told you. And don’t underestimate them.

Summary: Covering Children and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
In January 2019 the Dart Center hosted a four-day journalism training workshop in Amman, Jordan, with a special focus on the Syrian refugee crisis and response.
Reporting Institute Resources: Early Childhood Trauma, Resilience and the Developing Brain

Summary: Early Childhood Reporting Institute Series
For journalists around the world, children are often at the forefront of reporting, on beats ranging from education and crime to refugees, conflict and international public health. Quite simply, children are the news - whether as the subjects of stories, the targets of social policies, or the victims of family violence, natural disaster, or war. Yet too often, reporting overlooks crucial innovations in the scientific understanding of early childhood, the impact of trauma on developing minds and the policies that promote resilience and growth in the face of violence, stress and upheaval.
Leading Media Journal Highlights Crisis Zones Reporting Course
The Dart Center's annual four-day crisis zones reporting course and its lead instructor, Judith Matloff, are featured in Das Medienmagazin Journalist.

Applications Now Open for 2018 Age Boom Academy
The Age Boom Academy is now accepting applications for its annual three-day workshop for journalists. This year's Academy, May 31 - June 2, will focus on the impacts of new technology on an aging workforce, and will feature leading experts in journalism, science and economics.