Resources for Journalists
DART CENTER
Hometown Catastrophe
Dart Center Executive Director Bruce Shapiro passes on lessons for newsrooms learned from the Virginia Tech shooting.
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Tips for Managers and Editors
How managers and editors can prepare and support reporters in the field.
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Families of Mass Shooting Victims Ask Media to Limit Use of Shooters' Names
A campaign call “No Notoriety” asks the media to limit the name and likeness of alleged assailants.
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Best Practices in Trauma Reporting
A systematic analysis of what works in trauma reporting, drawn from a decade of Dart Award-winning stories.
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Covering Trauma: Impact on the Public
Current research on how news coverage affects the public and the risk factors that exacerbate reactions of distress.
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The Virginia Tech Shootings
Dart Center Ochberg Fellows offer journalist-to-journalist advice, from those who have covered large-scale shootings.
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Tragedies and Journalists
The Dart Center's 40 page comprehensive guide for reporters, editors, photographers and managers on every aspect of covering tragedy while protecting both victims and themselves.
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Self-study unit: Covering Terrorism
This 7 part unit outlines the challenges confronting reporters and editors who find themselves in the position of covering terrorism and suggests ways to cover those affected by terrorism with accuracy, sensitivity and clarity. It discusses ways that terrorists have sought to use the media, and how journalistic skepticism can prevent manipulation. Based on the latest clinical research about emotional responses to trauma, it also outlines self-care measures journalists are taking to reduce work-related distress and possibly prevent their own Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
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A Reporter's Lessons from Past Shootings
Dave Cullen's lessons from a decade of reporting on the Columbine attacks.
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Covering Mass Killings
Psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, M.D. and Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma share insights from the aftermath of the 2011 Arizona shooting that left six dead and a U.S. Congresswoman grievously injured.
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Working with Traumatic Imagery
Traumatic imagery can place the wellbeing of those who work with it at risk. Here is a tip sheet of practical things media workers and editors can do to reduce the trauma load.
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Covering Trauma: Impact on Journalists
Scientific consensus, made readable, on the effects of traumatic coverage on journalists.
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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
The Role of the Media in Reporting Mass Shootings
Scientific consensus, made readable, on the effects of traumatic coverage on journalists.
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Handling Traumatic Imagery: Developing a Standard Operating Procedure
This guide to handling graphic or highly emotional content in the newsroom from Dart Centre Europe helps media workers prepare to work with traumatic imagery.
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