Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Four Lessons on School Shootings

By Meg Moritz

Dark, cold, grey, brooding Helsinki. This was the backdrop for Violence in the Networked Society, an international conference hosted by University of Helsinki’s Communication Research Center on Nov. 6 and 7, 2009. It was a particularly poignant setting, because in 2007 and again in 2008 Finland was the site of school shootings that together left 18 students murdered. In this highly literate and socially conscious society, the sense of communal grief was profound — a national trauma. More »

Telling Stories in Images

By Niina Rintala

"A picture has no meaning at all if it can't tell a story." Award-winning Finnish photographer Eetu Sillanpää explains his philosophy of visual journalism.

Presentation: Trauma and Crisis Reporting

At the University of Helsinki in Finland, a regional seminar for journalism students and media researchers on how journalists can best prepare to cover crisis situations.

Presentation: Why Trauma Literacy Matters in Crisis Reporting

In Jyväskylä, Finland, Dart Centre Europe Director Gavin Rees will give a keynote on crisis reporting at a national seminar for journalists, rescue workers and their co-ordinating bodies.