In this video, student journalists and advisers from Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University explain how they reported on mass-casualty attacks on their respective campuses.
This documentary, available online and on DVD, examines the impact of the news coverage of the Columbine High School shootings.
Photographs convey the emotion of a tragedy, but the images may serve to wound as well as to heal. Such was the case with news photos used after the Columbine shootings in April 1999. How do we judge pictures that take us closer to the grief and shock of people whose lives are directly touched by violence?
Low crime rates mask an epidemic of violence among urban youth, but how can journalists get this story right? A panel discussion convened by the Dart Center and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Even as crime hits record lows in New York, among teenagers around the nation, gun homicides, gang violence and police shootings of young people are on the rise. Yet while shootings in suburban schools, churches and malls generate media controversy, epidemic levels of teen homicide in cities like Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and New Orleans attract scant attention.
A 57-minute documentary on the traumatic impact of the Columbine High School shootings on students, families, the community and journalists.