If a client's trauma was in the news, or if they contended with traumatic events as a journalist, you may find yourself on uncharted terrain. The Dart Center promotes dialogue and networking among clinicians and journalists, raising awareness of each groups' obligations, ethics and best practices.
Miho Hatanaka and her colleagues shared several English abstracts of their work on trauma and stress facing Japanese journalists, including 11 journal articles and six conference presentations. Click here for a brief overview from the Dart Center's Research Director Elana Newman and her University of Tulsa Research Associate, Kelsey Parker.
The Dart Center will co-sponsor the New York City premieres of the inspiring documentaries, Camp 14: Total Control Zone and My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone, at this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
On May 1, 2013, the Dart Center celebrated the 2013 Dart Awards winners and honorable mentions and presented a roundtable discussion. The conversation explored the story-behind-the-story, and drilled down on what's involved in undertaking hard-hitting, humane investigations of trauma and pursuing high-impact collaborations. Dart Foundation Vice President James Lammers and Dart Foundation Program Manager Claudia Deschaine presented the awards.
On Tuesday, the Dart Center hosted a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dale Maharidge and Ridenhour Prize-winning journalist Nick Turse about their acclaimed new books which revise our understanding of two very different wars. In Bringing Mulligan Home, Columbia Journalism professor Dale Maharidge goes in search of the ghosts that haunted his WWII veteran father. In Kill Everything that Moves, journalist and historian Nick Turse uncovers secret Pentagon records and tracks down survivors and perpetrators, revealing the brutal consequences of America’s military policy in Vietnam.
In the high stakes business of trauma reporting, social media has become a powerful and controversial journalistic tool. We are also only just beginning to understand how to use it. A special report in advance of our symposium on Monday, April 22, in conjunction with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, at Columbia Journalism School: Sandy Hook and Beyond: Breaking News, Trauma and Aftermath.
Click here to watch all of the symposium panels. Click here to read the Live Blog from the event. Click here for program details.
The daylong symposium: Sandy Hook and Beyond: Breaking News, Trauma and Aftermath took place on Monday at Columbia University. Regional and national journalists were joined by community leaders, mental health experts, policy advocates and Sandy Hook families and shared perspectives, discussed lessons learned and pointed the way towards responsible news coverage going forward.
Whether clinicians like it or not, children and families affected by trauma are routinely covered by the media. When that happens, clinicians often face difficult choices.
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Camp 14 - Total Control Zone
Screening and Discussion: RISC Training Group Show
Dart Center at AEJMC
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Camp 14 - Total Control Zone
Screening and Discussion: RISC Training Group Show
Dart Center at AEJMC
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