Who says it's the media's job to be a cheerleader for closure? Dave Cullen invites journalists to be a little less glib – and a lot more respectful – about the pain visited upon people affected by the Arizona shootings.
Welcome to Dart Centre Australasia's new online home. The name ‘Australasia’ is a little deceptive for us as officially this term relates to countries within the bounds of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. Having already been involved with programmes for media professionals from countries such Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Cambodia, Japan, New Zealand and East Timor to name a few, Dart Centre Australasia in fact takes in the much broader area of the Asia Pacific.
The International News Safety Institute examines the rising threats to journalists and the rapidly evolving reporting tools that put newsgatherers closer to danger.
n clinical news, a study published in Archives of General Psychiatry found Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in 70% of those with implanted cardioverter-defibrillators, while a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry found adolescents with psychotic symptoms were more likely to be bullies as well as victims of bullying and to have been exposed to domestic violence. Iraqis in Iraq were reported to be at a much lower risk for PTSD than Iraqis who emigrate. A new VA report found 15% of veterans have experienced sexual trauma. A study of mice suggested that a shot of cortisol after a stressful event could prevent traumatization ...
YDR/Sunday News has been awarded the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Foundation’s Public Service Award for its pioneering trauma journalism peer support program.
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.
Matthew Ricketson, a director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma Asia-Pacific, review's David Finkel's latest book "Thank You For Your Service." A version of this review originally appeared in The Weekend Australian on 12 October 2013. On November 20, the Dart Center will host a conversation between Finkel and Steve Coll at Columbia Journalism School in New York City.
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.
At Vanity Fair, David Margolick profiles two protagonists captured in a photo taken 50 years ago by Arkansas Democrat photographer Will Counts, during the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School ...
Three decades after the end of the deadly Khmer Rouge regime, the first of Cambodia's genocide trials has finally begun.