Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Weekend Links: Chinese Riots, Mexican Torture and Michael Jackson

This week, the Nieman Foundation's Narrative Digest published interviews with St. Petersburg Times reporters Ben Montgomery and Waveny Ann Moore about their co-authored April story on the effects of a century of abuse at the Florida School for Boys.

Meanwhile, journalism by the masses continued to change coverage of mass events More »

Germany and Post-War Trauma

By Nina Tietzel

On Tuesday January 18th, Germans and non-Germans were brought together by the Dart Centre at the Frontline Club in London to discuss how Germans have dealt psychologically with their country’s complex history.

South Africa: A Frontline Club Transcript

This is a transcript from a Frontline Club discussion on South Africa.

Dart Center & Frontline Club Look to Support Journalists

A Frontline Club Discussion

London’s new Frontline Club for journalists involved in the reporting of war, trauma and disaster has now formally opened its doors with a powerful discussion organised and sponsored by the Dart Centre on the role of trauma in journalism.

Filming Hiroshima

By Refqa Abu-Remaileh

The bombing of Hiroshima was perhaps the single most violent, and most traumatic, willful act committed in the history of humankind. When Paul Wilmshurst, BBC producer, writer and editor, embarked upon "Hiroshima"—a docu-drama re-construction of the bombing of Hiroshima, he found that, 60 years on, the story of Hiroshima is "a trauma that is still festering and will take generations to disappear, and maybe will never disappear".

Covering the Tsunami

A Frontline Club Discussion

In recent years, journalists have become more aware of the emotional aspects of the stories they cover, particularly in the aftermath of tragedy. Nowadays, says David Loyn, the BBC's developing world correspondent, "We get alongside people; we have sympathy with them; we empathise with them." A Frontline Club discussion.