Recent articles by Stacy Drury, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Vice Chair of Research at Tulane University's Department of Pediatrics, and a speaker at the Dart Center's Global Reporting Institute on Early Childhood Experience & the Developing Brain; March 9-12, 2017.
PDF slideshow by Richard Bryant from the University of New South Wales on the psychological costs of disasters for victims.
A free online course offered by the Poynter News University on journalism and trauma.
A free downloadable lesson plan for educators from PBS on journalism during armed conflict.
Free downloadable lesson plan from PBS focusing on conflict reporting from the Syrian conflict and writing stories for target audiences.
Webpage providing an overview and request for access to the James Foley Legacy Foundation curriculum for educators on journalist safety.
In the summer of 2016, in advance of a two-day conference commemorating the centennial of the Pulitzer Prize, Dart Center researchers interviewed 10 Pulitzer Prize winners from the past 20 years who were honored for their coverage of traumatic events or investigative reporting on trauma-related issues. Navigate through sections of this article to find pieces by: Alex Hannaford, who wrote on the relationship between Pulitzer winners and their sources, and on the impact of Charles Porter's 1996 Prize-winning photo; Elana Newman, who gathered advice from honorees on best practices in trauma reporting, and created teaching notes for the classroom with Matthew Ricketson and Autumn Slaughter; Matthew Ricketson, who also wrote a conference recap for those who could not be in attendance.
Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation — with partners Reporters Without Borders and A Culture of Safety Alliance — have published an online curriculum guide for college journalism educators to teach students about the growing risk of reporting in conflict zones around the world.
Yamiche Alcindor, Donna DeCesare, Danny Spriggs and Bruce Shapiro discussed practical tactics for assessing risk and and staying safe while reporting. They shared lessons from covering protests, youth gangs, earthquakes and toxic environmental sites among others.