Nearly every journalist in the course of their career will interview people who have experienced significant trauma. But how many receive any training for the task? This article describes how role-playing traumatic incidents might give student journalists valuable insight and hone crucial interviewing skills.
Robert Bowman recently faced the biggest news coverage challenge of his young life.
The Collegiate Daily, the student newspaper at Virginia Tech, began its coverage of last week's tragedy with a two-line report posted at 9:47 a.m., Monday, April 16 ...
Dart Center Ochberg Fellows and other journalists who have covered large-scale killings share their advice for colleagues.
The Port Arthur massacre was Australia's worst mass murder, with 35 people killed. I had been covering it all week and, I thought, coping well. But as I stood at that tree I suddenly found myself weeping.
Monday morning, a female staff member was murdered in her University of Washington office by her ex-boyfriend, against whom she had filed a restraining order.
In the LA Weekly, David Zahniser reports on homicide in Los Angeles, and officials' efforts to make the city safer.
Just about everyone remembers where they were when they recall some cataclysmic event in their life. When Hobart man Martin Bryant began indiscriminately shooting people at one of Tasmania’s iconic tourism destinations I was entertaining 35 women at home. I was hosting a “girls” lunch for my journalist colleagues and some friends who held responsible positions in government.
A series about the murder of eight women in Louisiana's Acadiana. Originally published in the Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, LA), on Aug. 7, 2005.
Through the window of an airplane about to land in Rwanda, the verdant mountains and lush foliage below appear as a slice of paradise on earth. But those familiar with the history of this central African nation know that its past is far from heavenly.