An overview of current research on the use of trigger warnings in broadcast news, the effectiveness of these warnings and suggestions for future research.
Dart's Executive Director Bruce Shapiro joined Storyful's Della Kilroy and Joe Galvin, and journalists Jenny Hauser and Razan Ibraheem, to discuss the impact of graphic content on both journalists and viewers, as well as methods to confront vicarious trauma in the age of graphic online content consumption.
The third installment of On Assignment's “Women We Love” series features Kelly McEvers, a veteran conflict reporter and co-host of NPR's All Things Considered, and Bruce Shapiro, the Dart Center's executive director.
Information from the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs National Center for PTSD on the causes, effects, and treatments of PTSD. Includes a downloadable PDF version of the report.
Information on depression and its treatments from the American Psychological Association.
A 12-part report from the International News Safety Institute.
The Dart Center is offering a four-day reporting institute for international journalists on early childhood experience and the developing brain, March 9-12, 2017 at Columbia Journalism School in New York City. The application deadline has passed.
A new series in the Lancet, Advancing Early Childhood Development: from Science to Scale, makes some troubling predictions. In middle and low-income countries, almost 250 million children – 43 percent of children under five – will fail to meet their developmental potential because of extreme poverty and deprivation. Karen Brown reports on these new findings in advance of the Dart Center's four-day reporting institute on early childhood experience and the developing brain.
From Safe Work Australia, this fact sheet provides information to persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) and workers on how to address psychological health risks under the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all persons at work.
From Safe Work Australia, this sample Code of Practice has been developed to provide practical guidance for persons who have duties to manage risks to health and safety under the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act and Regulations applying in a jurisdiction.