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February 2006
Russian Journalism and Trauma Seminar
(Moscow, Russia)
Held as part of a national conference at Moscow State University on “Journalism in 2005: New Media Models”, the meeting was organised jointly by the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ), its Union Centre for Creative Programmes and the North Caucasus bureau of the national television station NTV. The participants—from Moscow, Rostov, Dagestan, Chechnya, Saint Petersburg and other Russian regions, as well as professionals from Sweden, the USA, Ukraine and Austria—discussed the experiences of Russian journalists reporting conflict within their own country and around the world ...
» Click here to read a summary of the discussion ...
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February 2006
Training for terror coverage
(Bournemouth, UK)
During a training session at Bournemouth Media School at Bournemouth University in the UK. Journalism students interviewed actors portraying survivors of a bomb attack ...
» Click here to read a report from the training session ...
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January 2006
Trauma und Journalismus
(Hannover, Germany)
A conference organised by ZFP, the training department of Germany’s two leading public service broadcasters ARD and ZDF, in partnership with the Dart Centre Europe, and it brought together nearly 60 leading trainers, correspondents and psychologists from Germany, Switzerland and Austria ...
» Click here to read a report in English ...
» Click here to read a report in German ... |
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September-December 2005
Reporting in Indonesia
(Melbourne, Australia)
The Dart Centre Australasia was involved in training the 18 print journalists in dealing with trauma experienced in the course of reporting stories such as the one described by Tukan, but also the ‘everyday reporting’ of car accidents and daily violence. These experienced journalists, a number from high conflict areas, were chosen to be part of the IASTP III Course—which is a bilateral project, part of the Australian Government’s (AusAID) development cooperation program with Indonesia ...
» Click here to read a report about the training project ...
Also: In a first-person account, participant Peter Tukan describes his experiences reporting in East Timor. Read his story in English or Bahasa ... |
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November 2005
Emotional News: Reporting trauma and the anxious public
(London, UK)
A discussion, held in conjunction with the Bournemouth University Media School and the Tavistock Institute, about the role of journalism in the emotional framing of news content and the lessons journalism might learn from the world of trauma therapy and research ...
» Click here to read a summary of the discussion ...
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October 2005
Amsterdam Journalism Workshop
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
A Dart Center workshop with journalists from the Netherlands and Belgium. The meeting was held at the Amsterdam Medical Centre, in conjunction with the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies conference ...
» Click here to read a summary of the discussion ...
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Unresolved War Wounds
(London, UK) Reports from a Dart Center discussion with German TV producers Karsten Deventer and Eva Schmitz, whose recent documentaries explore the long-term trauma faced by Germans who were children during the Second World War ...
» Click here to read a summary of the discussion ...
» Click here to read a report by University College London student Niki Canham ... |
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Beslan One Year On
(London, UK) A Dart Centre discussion with trauma experts and journalists, including BBC producer Ewa Ewart, whose documentary, "The Children of Beslan," retells the story of the school siege through the voices of children who survived...
» Click here to read a report by the Dart Centre's Refqa Abu-Remaileh ...
» Click here to read a transcript ... |
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September 2005
Filming Hiroshima
(London, UK) A Dart Centre discussion with the BBC production team that made a recent docu-drama reconstruction of the bombing of Hiroshima ...
» Click here to read a report by the Dart Centre's Refqa Abu-Remaileh ...
» Click here to read a transcript ... |
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June 2005
Managing Stress on Investigative Projects
(Denver, USA)A Dart Center discussion at the 2005 Investigative Reporters and Editors annual conference in Denver, Colo. Three of the U.S.'s best journalists—Dan Baum of The New Yorker; Amy Herdy of The Denver Post; and Walter Robinson of The Boston Globe—talked about the stress they encountered during their work on difficult investigative projects ...
» Click here to read a summary of this discussion ...
» Click here to read an edited transcript ... |
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June 2005
Stockholm Trauma & Journalism Workshop
(Stockholm, Sweden) Some 20 editors and correspondents from Europe's leading newspapers and broadcasters gathered in Stockholm June 17-18 for a day-and-a-half workshop leading into the biennial conference of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS) ...
» Click here to read a report by the Dart Centre's Refqa Abu-Remaileh ...
» Click here to read a report by AFP's Robert Holloway ...
» Click here to read a report by the BBC's Mervyn Jess ... |
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June 2005
Dart Centre Educator's Day
(London, UK) At a workshop in London, European journalism educators were introduced to the Dart Centre's method of preparing students to cover traumatic events ...
» Click here to read a report, in German, by Claudia Fischer ...
» Click here to read a report by City University, London, student Nick Underdown ...
» Click here to read a report by media trainer Tudor Lomas ...
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May 2005
Lucid Dreaming
(London, UK) A Dart Centre discussion with Viennese psychotherapist Brigette Holzinger on "Lucid Dreaming as a Cure for Nightmares?" at the Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling Education in London ...
» Click here to read a report |
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April 2005
Journalism and the Tsunami
(Seattle, USA) The Dart Center hosted an April 15 conference, "The Tsunami Aftermath: Consequences for Journalism and the Region," at the University of Washington in Seattle, bringing together journalists, scientists and health care professionals from around the world ...
» Click here to read reports from the conference ... |
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April 2005
Trauma and Forgiveness
(London, UK) A Dart Centre discussion about “Trauma and Forgiveness”, held in London on April 26, 2005, and facilitated by Robin Shohet and Ben Fuchs from the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland ...
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March 2005
New UK PTSD-Treatment Guidelines
(London, UK) A Frontline Club discussion of Britain's new guidelines for the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The guidelines, issued by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), are the most comprehensive guidelines to date on effective treatments for PSTD ...
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» Click here to read a transcript |
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February 2005
Covering the Tsunami
(London, UK) A Frontline Club discussion. A group of journalists, mental health professionals and aid workers recall their experiences in Southeast Asia in the aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami ...
» Click here to read a report
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February 2005
Women Reporting War
(London, UK) Women who report war gathered in London to discuss their safety concerns at a forum arranged by the International News Safety Institute and the Dart Centre. The session, which drew about 40 women conflict reporters and other interested parties to the journalists’ Frontline Club, was a follow-up to INSI’s first-ever international safety survey on Women Reporting War ...
» Click here to read a report
» Click here to read a transcript |
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January 2005
Germany and Post-War Trauma
(London, UK) A Frontline Club discussion on how Germans have dealt psychologically with their country’s complex history. The event was co-sponsored by the Dart Center and the German Embassy and opened with the showing of Thomas Reimer’s film "Meine Schlachtfelder" ("My Battlefields"), first broadcast in Germany in November 2002 ...
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November 2004
Seymour Hersh & Jonathan Schell: Two acclaimed journalists discuss press and politics
(New York, USA) In a November 8 discussion at New York University, sponsored by the Center for Communication and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Seymour Hersh (Pulitzer Prize winner and New Yorker national security writer) and Jonathan Schell (Nation columnist and former reporter and editor for The New Yorker) discussed the general state of the national press corps and the prospects for a U.S. success in Iraq ...
» Click here to read a report
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October 2004
Images of Violence and Trauma
(London, UK) Newsrooms are well-used to handling images of trauma and violence from conflicts around the world, but only recently have journalists and news managers begun to consider the emotional and psychological effects of repeatedly viewing such images. The Dart Centre held a Frontline Club discussion with several top journalists and managers ...
» Click here to read a report
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September 2004
News, Violence and Trauma: The Experience of Partners and Families
(London, UK) How should news people, their partners and their employers best handle the stresses and tensions of family and relationship that come with the separation of reporting on conflict, tragedy and war? What do organisations need to know? How best can freelancers be supported? The Dart Centre, together with the relationship-research organisation One Plus One and the Freelancers’ support charity The Rory Peck Trust, held a Frontline Club discussion about what needs to be done ...
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September 2004
Reporting Iraq: The psychological dimensions of the conflict
(London, UK) A discussion on "Reporting Iraq" at the Frontline Club in London. The wide-ranging conversation, sponsored by the Dart Centre and the International News Safety Institute (INSI), included Simon Wessely of the Institute of Psychiatry and group analyst Gabrielle Rifkind ...
» Click here to read a report
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July 2004
Northern Ireland: The Legacy of Trauma
(London, UK) A Dart Centre Frontline Club discussion of the psychological impact of the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland, featuring: Oscar Daly, psychiatrist and Board Member of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), BBC reporter Mervyn Jess, and consultant psychiatrist, Alliance Party leader, and former speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1998-2003) Lord John Alderdice ...
» Click here to read a report
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July 2004
Trauma & News: The Organisational Response
(London, UK) A Dart Centre workshop on the organisational response to trauma in the media brought together some 30 senior managers, journalists and editors from organisations including NBC, the French news agency AFP, the Sunday Times and the BBC. They were joined by representatives of the hostile environment training providers Pilgrims and Objective Team, together with several therapists, trauma specialists and providers of confidential counselling and trauma training in Britain ...
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April 2004
Media Panel Debates Use of Violent Images
(New York, USA) A Dart Center discussion held April 14 at the City University of New York. The panel, moderated by Gladstone, included David Gelber, CBS executive producer; Mary Anne Golon, Time magazine picture editor; Vin Ray, the BBC's deputy head of newsgathering; and psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton. The discussion was held after presentation of the 11th annual Dart Award for Excellence in Reporting on Victims of Violence to a team from the Providence Journal, and presentation of the Dart Center Distinguished Media Leadership Award to the BBC ...
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April 2004
Deepening Dialogue at Zagreb Trauma Conference
(Zagreb, Croatia) Brought together by the Dart Centre and the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, a Zagreb workshop of regional journalists and psychotherapists, psychiatrists and psychologists from Croatia and across Europe looked at how professional trauma expertise can be better brought to public attention ...
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March 2004
Journalism, Trauma & Spirituality
(London, UK) The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) now has a Special Interest Group for those interested in the link between trauma and spirituality. But journalists? In the news business, scepticism shading into cynicism is in effect part of the job description. So it was with not a little trepidation that the Dart Centre brought 18 mainly British and American journalists together for a day-long exploration of “Journalism, Trauma and Spirituality” at the Frontline Club in London ...
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February 2004
The Soham Murders
(London, UK) One of the most emotive and distressing recent murder cases in Britain — the killing of two schoolgirls in August 2002 in the Eastern English town of Soham — was the focus of a Dart Centre discussion at the Frontline Club in London, which heard how difficult it had been at times for journalists as well as the local community ...
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January 2004
Reporting in a Culture of Violence
(London, UK) A Dart Centre-hosted a discussion on trauma and violence in Southern Africa, with guest speaker Sherbanu Sacoor and others from the region ...
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November 2003
Dart Center & Frontline Club Look to Support Journalists
(London, UK) London’s new Frontline Club for journalists involved in the reporting of war, trauma and disaster, formally opened its doors in November 2003 with a powerful discussion organised and sponsored by the Dart Centre on the role of trauma in journalism ...
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May 2003
Berlin Trauma Conference
(Berlin, Germany ) A Dart Centre-hosted day of discussions on “Journalism and Trauma” on May 21, 2003, at the Berlin Conference of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS). ...
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March 2003
Trauma & Journalism in War
(London, UK) War and violent confict are the stuff of journalism. What do journalists and their teams and managers need to know about trauma and post-traumatic stress? What are the implications for our journalism and the stories we cover? The Dart Centre held a seminar in London featuring Dr. Frank Ochberg (the center's co-founder) with reports from several of Britain's major news agencies and broadcasters on what they are doing to support their teams. The seminar also heard from journalists and producers who have themselves experienced post-traumatic stress disorder, and how they have worked through it
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