Suggested Practices for Journalists Reporting on Child Abuse and Neglect
January 25, 2017
A guide for journalists reporting on child abuse and neglect by the Center for Disease Control.
Resources for Children & Youth
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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.
Summary: Early Childhood Institute
October 18, 2016
The Dart Center is offering a four-day reporting institute for international journalists on early childhood experience and the developing brain, March 9-12, 2017 at Columbia Journalism School in New York City. The application deadline has passed.
Lancet Publishes Groundbreaking Series on Early Childhood Development
October 18, 2016 by Karen Brown
A new series in the Lancet, Advancing Early Childhood Development: from Science to Scale, makes some troubling predictions. In middle and low-income countries, almost 250 million children – 43 percent of children under five – will fail to meet their developmental potential because of extreme poverty and deprivation. Karen Brown reports on these new findings in advance of the Dart Center's four-day reporting institute on early childhood experience and the developing brain.
Lancet Series Author Outlines "Lost Potential" for 250 Million Children Worldwide
October 17, 2016
Health reporter and Ochberg Fellow Karen Brown spoke with Gary Darmstadt, a co-author on the the recent Lancet series called Advancing Early Childhood Development: from Science to Scale.
Interview: Lancet Series on Early Childhood Development
October 17, 2016
Health journalist Karen Brown interviews Gary Darmstadt, a co-author on the the recent Lancet series called Advancing Early Childhood Development: from Science to Scale.
Covering Child Sexual Abuse
September 25, 2016 by Shelagh Beckett, Jeanny Gering, Sarah Heke, Olly Lambert, Katharine Quarmby, Alex Renton
Journalists Alex Renton, Katharine Quarmby and Olly Lambert spoke with the Dart Center about the challenges of reporting on child abuse, and trauma experts Sarah Heke and Shelagh Beckett shared tactics for interviewing victims of childhood trauma.
An Unbelievable Story of Rape: Reporting the Complicated Truth
September 20, 2016
A conversation with T. Christian Miller, senior reporter for ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, writer for The Marshall Project, who peeled back the layers of their 2016 Pulitzer Prize winning investigative project.
Swiss Research Foundation Launches New Blog
August 11, 2016
The Jacobs Foundation has launched a new blog designed to share the newest insights into how young people learn and develop.
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.