Covering Children and Youth
July 31, 2014
A Dart Center Tip Sheet for College Media Advisors, Editors and Student Journalists.
Resources for Classroom Resources, Children & Youth
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Children’s Reactions to Trauma-related News Media
Following the Newtown school shooting, a fact sheet on the effects of trauma-related news media on children.
Suicide Statistics
October 22, 2012
A fact-sheet of both national and international statistics relating to suicide
2010 Dart Awards: Shaping Complicated Narratives
April 15, 2010
Journalists from The St. Petersburg Times, ProPublica and the New York Times talk through the process of shaping their long and complicated Dart Award-winning narratives.
Covering a Tragedy: NIU
April 20, 2009 by Hassan Ali
A former news editor of the student paper at the University of Chicago with close ties to the journalism community at NIU explores a side of that campus's tragedy that the major media outlets overlooked.
Covering School Shootings
April 20, 2009
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.
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.