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  How Can Indigenous Reporters Care for Themselves While Covering Trauma — and How Can Their Newsrooms Help?

  July 14, 2021 by Camille Baker

  • Aftermath & Anniversaries
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  • Self-Care & Peer Support

  In the last months, the remains of over a thousand people, including at least hundreds of Indigenous children, have been discovered on the properties of former residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan. These discoveries have brought to the fore — for now — a subject that has long remained at the margins of mainstream media coverage in the United States: the genocide of millions of Indigenous people by colonizers.

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  The Dart Center Style Guide for Trauma-Informed Journalism

  June 22, 2021 by Isobel Thompson

  • Aftermath & Anniversaries
  • Children & Youth
  • Classroom Resources
  • Disaster
  • Homicide & Mass Shooting
  • Immigrants & Refugees
  • Interviewing
  • Intimate Partner Violence
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  • Sexual Violence
  • Suicide
  • Terrorism
  • War & Civil Conflict

  This style guide is designed as a quick, authoritative reference for reporters, editors and producers working on tight deadlines. It includes brief evidence-informed guidance on news choices, language usage and ethics in reporting on the impact of trauma on individuals, families and communities; recommendations for appropriate use of relevant psychological and scientific terminology; and special considerations when reporting on consequential trauma-laden issues such as racism and sexual violence.

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  Resources for Journalists Coping With Trauma

  June 21, 2021 by Elana Newman, Naseem S. Miller

  • PTSD & Mental Health
  • Self-Care & Peer Support

  Dr. Elana Newman, The Dart Center's Research Director, and Naseem S. Miller, Senior Health Editor for The Journalist’s Resource, assembled a list of resources for coping with trauma as part of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference in June 2021. 

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  Unheard

  May 6, 2021 by Loren Holmes, Kyle Hopkins, Marc Lester, Anne Raup, Michelle Theriault Boots, Agnes Chang, Adriana Gallardo, Nadia Sussman

  • Children & Youth
  • PTSD & Mental Health
  • Sexual Violence

  This project focuses on 29 Alaskan women and men of different races and socio-economic backgrounds seeking to inspire change in Alaska’s justice system, and to de-stigmatize being a survivor of sexual violence. The judges called “Unheard” “exceptional, original journalism” that “puts the voices of survivors at the forefront” and “reimagines how trauma-aware, culturally-sensitive, collaborative reporting can be done.” They applauded the project’s “emphasis on the heterogeneity of sexual violence and trauma” and called the reporting approach “sensitive by design.” Originally published by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica on June 1, 2020.

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