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.
After facilitating one of the largest gatherings of Indigenous journalists last year, Dart Centre Asia Pacific will make permanent a position on its Board of Director’s for a First Nations person, and create an ongoing scholarship for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island journalist to attend Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism's prestigious Summer Investigative Reporting Course in New York City.
Bruce Shapiro welcomes 24 journalists from 14 countries to the Columbia Global Centers | Amman for the Dart Center's reporting institute, "Covering Children and the Syrian Refugee Crisis"; January 20, 2019.
Detailed agenda from the Dart Center's reporting institute Covering Children and the Syrian Refugee Crisis; January 20-23, 2019; Amman, Jordan.
The News Organizations Safety Self-Assessment provides a tool for news outlets to review and improve their current safety practices and protocols. It should help news organizations to identify and better understand their own weaknesses and strengths in relation to the security of all individuals working for them exposed to danger, including freelancers.
Everyone has a right to dignity. Use creative approaches. Photograph objects. Maintain confidentiality. Work with reporters you trust. Think about how you’d want your own story told. Don’t be afraid of taking a beautiful shot. Remember why you're there.
The ACOS Alliance today launched a new resource that will help news outlets to review and improve their current safety practices and protocols.
For more information, please contact Dr. Gurwitch at [email protected] or Elana Newman at [email protected].
Mass shootings challenge the skill, capacity and ethics of news professionals. Below are tip sheets and other resources for journalists covering these tragedies.
A tip sheet for journalists and newsroom managers on dealing with online hate speech and harassment. Click here for a Spanish version.