Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

“So the Audience Will Never Forget”

A Dart Center Q & A with Jon Alpert

By Olga Kravtsova

Jon Alpert is an award-winning reporter and documentary filmmaker whose recent work includes "Baghdad ER" and "Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq," directed and filmed with Matthew O'Neill for HBO. Alpert is also a co-founder and co-director of the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV).

Panel: Memories and Narrations of Death, Near Death and Mourning

At Columbia University in New York City, a panel discussion with three scholars who use oral history, narrative and psychology to approach the themes of death and mourning.

Breaking Bad News

This booklet is intended to offer informal guidance in circumstances where journalists, their editors or managers are required to tell next-of-kin of the death of a colleague.