This brief tip sheet was drawn from the third webinar in a series focused on Early Childhood Reporting, part of the Dart Center’s Early Childhood Journalism Initiative (ECJI).
In 2009, former news editor of the Sunday Times and the Observer Andrew Hogg spoke to journalism students at the City University in London about the treatment of torture victims. Below is the text of his illuminating speech.
(This was originally published on November 13, 2012, in the wake of the London High Court decision allowing three Kenyans to sue the UK government for torture they suffered during the 1950s and 60s Mau Mau revolution.)
When conducting an interview with someone who has experienced trauma – especially a child – remember that you have the power, and they have the hurt. How do you give a child a sense of power and control? How do you help them tell their story? Click here for a Ukrainian translation.
The Dart Center has gathered a selection of resources to support journalists as they cover recent incidents of gun violence and mass shootings.
Covering guns and gun violence
As part of the Early Childhood Journalism Initiative, the Dart Center has created a webinar series that will help journalists think through some of the most urgent global issues and how to approach them through an early childhood lens.
性暴力の報道には、特別なケア〈人間に対する注意力、心遣い〉と、いつも以上の倫理的敏感さが必要不可欠です。専門的なインタビュー技術、法律の理解、そしてトラウマの心理的影響についての基礎知識が求められます。
This tipsheet was drawn from the first webinar in a series focused on Early Childhood Reporting, part of the Dart Center’s Early Childhood Initiative.
Eight years after the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster that claimed the lives of 304 passengers, Korean journalists were asked about work-related trauma in a survey developed by the Journalists Association of Korea (JAK), the Korean Women Journalists Association, the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma Asia Pacific (DCAP), and the Google News Initiative. The survey was completed by 544 journalists (62% male and 38% female). Eight out of ten had experienced work-related trauma, while nearly 30% said they had experienced trauma at work regularly.