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Last year was a record year for media deaths, but 2007 may be even worse.

At a recent event at London's Frontline Club, the psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein, author of the book "Journalists under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War," spoke with BBC correspondent Allan Little about the emotional impact war has on the people reporting it and the lack of support from news agencies.

The Dart Center hosted a delegation of broadcast journalists at Columbia Journalism School for a wide-ranging conversation on covering violence.

On the morning of Friday, July 17, at least eight people were killed and fifty injured in near-simultaneous bombings of two luxury hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was the first major terrorist attack to take place on Indonesian soil in several years.

To help journalists covering this story, in Indonesia and around the world, the Dart Center is aggregating useful resources. If you have an addition, please add it in the comments.

Despite an Australian court ruling against the journalist known as AZ, media companies may face other claims by reporters who suffer psychological injuries on the job. 

In the last week, as many as 40 journalists have been injured by Kiev police or had their equipment destroyed while trying to cover the mass protest there. The Dart Center has resources for how journalists can safely and effectively deal with such situations.

As the Obama Administration weighs criminal prosecution of Wikileaks and its founder over release of a trove of diplomatic cables, members of the Columbia Journalism School faculty warn such action could endanger the work of all investigative journalists.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe kicked off its conference in Vienna today on journalist safety, media freedom and pluralism in times of conflict. Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, delivered opening remarks.

Dart Center Ochberg Fellows Finbarr O'Reilly and Amantha Perera discuss trauma, self-care and peer support in the latest episode of WAN-IFRA's podcast, The Backstory.

Conventional wisdom about the psychological impact of war on soldiers turns out to be not very wise at all.  While public awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder has increased dramatically in recent years, in the minds of many it represents everything bad that combat can do to the mind and spirit. And the very term "disorder" implies a permanent condition from which there is little hope for recovery.