The Dart Center has long distributed publications at little or no charge, providing in-depth resources on journalism and trauma to journalists, journalism educators, newsroom managers and others around the world. Among them are two videos:
Ten years after the death of Martin O’Hagan, the only journalist killed in Northern Ireland's three-decade civil conflict, the National Union of Journalists held a conference in Belfast on September 30 exploring the safety issues and pressures that arise when covering sectarian violence. As the NUJ's Freelance reports, the theme was trauma and the effects of trauma that go beyond the front line.
Brett McLeod, former Dart Center Ochberg Fellow and reporter for Australia's Channel Nine network, responds to accusations that all journalists exploit victims and crisis.
A journalist in Sri Lanka writes that if Westerners saw a newspaper editor's murder as a symbol of press freedom, Sri Lankans saw him as "no less than a fallen warrior."
An American student in Syria writes an essay on how, politics aside, Al Jazeera's graphic Gaza coverage is a stinging rebuke to the "bloodless war journalism" in the United States.
And the Frontline Club's blog carries the trailer for Burma VJ, a documentary on Burmese reporters who risked their lives covering the failed revolution in September 2007.
If you haven't heard of GlobalPost--an ambitious new international news start-up-- read this Columbia Journalism Review profile now. Whether or not their innovative business and editorial model is the Future of Journalism, it's cheering to read on their founding editor Charles M. Sennott's blog that they will be distributing the Dart Center's guide to covering violence--Tragedies and Journalists--to all their correspondents.
We emailed Sennott to ask how he became involved with the Dart Center and how else his organization planned to help his semi-freelance reporters cover traumatic events.
With three dead and two wounded at a high school in Chardon, Ohio, attention is once again turning to how and why school shootings occur and what can be done about them.
Frank Ochberg, M.D., the Dart Center’s chair emeritus, explores why school shootings are more frequent in the the U.S. than in other nations for CNN.com. Many resources for reporters covering school shootings are available here at DartCenter.org.
Three decades after the end of the deadly Khmer Rouge regime, the first of Cambodia's genocide trials has finally begun.
The Dart Center and More magazine co-host a performance of a drama about journalists damaged by the conflicts they cover. A post-performance talk features journalist Bob Woodward. Part of the proceeds will benefit the Dart Center's ongoing work.
New York Times correspondents Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario spoke about their six-day captivity in Libya at a panel discussion in New York City.
The Dart Center hosted a delegation of Afghani women reporters at Columbia Journalism School for a wide-ranging conversation on covering tragedy.