Researchers and Scholars | Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma

Announcement
Classroom Innovators Awarded 2012 Dart Academic Fellowships
Fourteen journalism educators from six countries will gather at Columbia University for seminars and discussions on understanding emotional trauma and incorporating responsible coverage of tragedy into the curriculum.
In Depth
Surviving 9/11
By Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. and Charles B. Strozier
This tenth anniversary of the attacks on 9/11, for all its potential to reawaken a painful past, also moves personal loss into collective historical memory. That can be a painful process but also offers a moment for reflection and the creation of new meanings.
Announcement
Evening Conversation: Witness to an Extreme Century
On September 14, 2011, at the Columbia Journalism School in New York City, the Dart Center will host an evening event with renowned psychiatrist and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton.
In Depth
Reporting Riots in Real Time
By Emily Bell
Twitter streams built up a faster picture than London's news organizations could manage.
From the Academy
New Tool for Journalism and Trauma Research
With the launch of the Dart Research Database, journalists, clinicians, scholars and mental health researchers have a new tool to keep current with scholarly work on the intersection of journalism and human tragedy.