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Facing Torture: Comprehensive New Report Tracks Victims of CIA Abuses

In detailing the United State's secret torture campaign, the Open Society Justice Initiative has released the most comprehensive account of CIA-related human rights abuses to date. More »

Working with Victims and Survivors: Minimise Further Harm

Suggested ways news personnel can minimise further harm when working with victims and survivors.

Questioning a Guantanamo Prisoner's Death

As Zero Dark Thirty stokes controversy over the use of torture techniques, a new short documentary by filmmaker Laura Poitras examines the death of a Guantanamo prisoner.

"Unsere Kinder wurden uns zweimal entrissen"

Gisela Mayer ist die Mutter einer der Ermordeten von Winnenden. Die Ethiklehrerin trauert um ihre 24-jährige Tochter Nina, die als Referendarin an der Albertville-Realschule arbeitete. Mit dem journalist sprach sie eineinhalb Jahre später über ihre Erfahrungen mit Journalisten und deren Berichterstattung aus Winnenden.

Grief in the Gulf

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is different from a war or an earthquake, but the traumatic impact is just as real. The challenge to journalists is to report the slow-motion disaster while seeking stories of resilience and possible recovery.  

Report: Bushfire Coverage Raises Ethics Questions

By Cait McMahon

What has become known as the "Black Saturday Bushfires" is Australia’s worse natural disaster to date. On Feb. 7, 2009, temperatures of 46 degrees Celsius and winds of 100 km per hour created explosive firestorms with 1500 times the energy of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. More »

Die Bewährungsprobe

By Petra Tabeling

Hilflosigkeit, Trauer und Wut – wie kann man nach einem so tief greifenden Ereignis wie dem Amoklauf in Winnenden heute eine sensible Berichterstattung leisten? Der Waiblinger Zeitungsverlag hat nach Konsultationen mit dem Dart Center International einen berührenden Schwerpunktartikel veröffentlicht.
 

Tomorrow’s Fish-and-Chips Paper

By Mary Self

It was going to be a big story, my journalist told me. In fact, it was going to be huge—my story had all the right elements for the ultimate tale of ‘triumph over tragedy’.

Lessons from 9/11 Survivors

By Joe Hight

On the weekend observance of three years after the September 11th attack, victims traveled to the Mid-America Press Institute workshop, co-sponsored by the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, to give their impressions on how reporters should interview those effected by violence.

Scar Tissue: 1 Crime. 2 Writers. 18 Years.

At Columbia University, a conversation with award-winning writers Emily Bernard and Bruce Shapiro, both critically injured in a brutal attack.

Workshop: Broadcasting After a Traumatic Incident

At the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia's conference in Hobart, Australia, a workshop on broadcasting after traumatic events.

Panel Discussion: Victims in the Public Eye

At the 11th annual conference of DeGPT in Bielefeld, Germany, Dart Centre Europe presents a panel discussion on the respective responsibilites of journalists and therapists.

Witnessing and Picturing Violence

By Donna DeCesare

In a multimedia presentation covering gangs and paramilitaries, earthquakes and HIV, a photographer and educator explores how collaboration is the key to making images that are both powerful and responsible.