The award is named for Providence Journal editor Mimi Burkhardt, a compassionate voice who understood the professional and interpersonal dynamics of reporting on traumatized people.
Veteran’s Affairs National Center for PTSD launches an online coach to help those with the condition manage their own symptoms.
Pakistan is consistently rated one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. A 2011 Dart Centre Asia Pacific Fellow and the director of Pakistan's first media and development sector watchdog organization, Freedom Network, weighs in on the state of the Pakistani media and a new program to address the problems.
In the wake of Monday's mass shooting at the Washington DC Navy Yard, the search is on for answers to a disturbing phenomenon.
As the international community debates an intervention, independent Syrian journalists spoke to students at the Columbia Journalism School about the personal and professional challenges of covering the conflict.
The case, closely watched by Australian media, is believed to be the first involving a journalist’s claim of occupational PTSD to go to trial anywhere in the world
Donna De Cesare, the Dart Center’s Latin America Coordinator and Gallery Curator, is a recipient of the prestigious 2013 Maria Moors Cabot Award gold medal for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Two prominent Australian journalists, Suzanne Smith and Joanne McCarthy, will not be covering the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. In 2012, McCarthy wrote that child sexual abuse “is the genesis of decades of suffering, the silent wrecking ball in our community behind too many broken families, too many lost and shattered lives and too much pain."
While Hosni Mubarak was airlifted from a prison to a hospital awaiting trial, violent street protests across Egypt continued. The Dart Center has tips for journalists covering such events.
We're please to share a terrific new resource from our colleagues at WITNESS on interviewing survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, created in consultation with Dart Center Research Director, Elana Newman.