What happens to a community when a major traumatic event turns life upside down? How do news organizations responsibly cover the event and help the community recover?
Coverage of any disaster, whether it is man-made or natural, can be a difficult venture for a newsroom. While it has been particularly devastating, Hurricane Katrina is similar to other disasters in that it caused death and destruction—and grief for many people.
Another early morning. Another day of getting ready for work. Another radio news show blasting loudly in the house.
Editor Sherry Chisenhall led The Wichita Eagle's coverage of the BTK killer and his victims. The Dart Center's Joe Hight interviews her about the coverage of the victims.
The Wichita Eagle newsroom recently faced a coverage situation that few newspapers encounter: A serial killer resurfacing many years after his last killing.
The tsunami that wreaked utmost tragedy on parts of southern Asia has become one of the most overwhelming stories in the history of journalism. The scale of death and destruction has shocked even those who had covered man-made and natural disasters before Dec. 26.
On the weekend observance of three years after the September 11th attack, victims traveled to the Mid-America Press Institute workshop, co-sponsored by the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, to give their impressions on how reporters should interview those effected by violence.
Michelle Mostovy-Eisenberg is a 2002 college graduate who reports for a small weekly newspaper in Delaware. Joe McDermott is a veteran reporter for a much larger daily in Pennsylvania.