Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Cocodrie, La. After Hurricane Gustav
Interactive Narrative highlighted this full-screen panorama, immersing users in the flood.

Rocky Mountain News Decides not to Twitter Second Funeral
A staff complaint has prevented a repeat of the controversial decision to report a toddler's funeral in text messages, using Twitter.

Media Obstruction in Galveston
The Columbia Journalism Review looks at the natural and human challenges of reporting Hurricane Ike in Texas.

Making a Disaster Victim Database
Poynter interviews LA Times reporters on their quick database creation for victims of the September 12th Metrolink crash.

Drug Label, Maimed Patient and Crucial Test for Justice
The New York Times covers the challenge to the legal doctrine of "pre-emption" through the moving story of Diana Levine, her arm amputated after a medical disaster.

ICUs Create PTSD Risk
Slate summarizes a finding in General Hospital Psychiatry that intensive care patients are at risk for PTSD.

Judge Right to Identify Abused in Granting Asylum
Newsday editorializes on behalf of an immigration judge identifying abused children as as an asylum-worthy persecuted "social group."

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