Covering Children and Trauma
February 4, 2009 by Ruth Teichroeb
When children are victims of violence, journalists have a responsibility to report the truth with compassion and sensitivity.
Resources for Children & Youth, PTSD & Mental Health
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Lethal Impulse
March 3, 2006 by Jeremy Olson, Erin Grace
Each teen suicide is a puzzle with pieces missing. Gone is the only person who might know the exact reasons. But taken together, these deaths reveal much about the social forces contributing to teen suicide. Originally published in the Omaha World-Herald in May, 2005.
Children and Media Coverage of Trauma
March 1, 2006 by Elana Newman
An overview of current research on the short- and long-term impacts of media coverage of tragedy on children, as well as aggravating risk factors and suggestions for future research.
Even Without Malice, Errors Still Hurt
June 11, 2004 by Jenny Wishart
Reporters may have felt they didn’t want to intrude, but far from a closed and hushed house between Sheona’s death and her funeral, it was literally an open house.
The Joseph Palczynski Story
February 12, 2001 by Linell Smith, Marego Athans, Ann LoLordo, Patricia Meisol, Doug Kapustin, Joannah Hill
A two-part series from The Baltimore Sun on the lives of six women serially victimized by one man's extremes of physical and psychological abuse.
Columbine: A Photographer's Perspective
April 20, 2000
David Handschuh, staff photographer for the New York Daily News, had just returned to his office when his editor told him to go to Littleton, Colorado. Six hours after watching the event unfold on television, he was at Columbine, covering the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
Death by Love
February 18, 1995
A series of articles on domestic violence victims murdered by a lover or spouse. Originally printed in The Times, Munster, IN, in 1995.
Fighting Crime Together
August 28, 1993 by Janet Wiscombe
A series of articles exploring how communities adapt to and recover from urban trauma. Originally published as a series in the Long Beach Press-Telegram from August to November, 1993.