Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

An Editor Reflects on Telling the Toughest Stories

By Jim Trotter

Jim Trotter has spent a long career in journalism working with writers and with words. Accepting the Dart Society's 2010 Mimi Award for excellence as an editor at the Denver Press Club Sept. 25, he reflects on the courage and compassion required to tell difficult stories well.

Jim Trotter Is 2010 Mimi Award Winner

Associated Press editor Jim Trotter is named recipient of the Dart Society's 2010 Mimi Award. More »

Dart Society Seeks Nominations of Editors for Mimi Award

Nominations are now being sought for the fourth annual Mimi Award, a prize that recognizes exceptional work by an editor. The Mimi Award is given each year by The Dart Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting sensitive coverage of victims of violence, composed of Dart Center Ochberg Fellows and winners of the Dart and Mimi awards. More »

Editor Jan Winburn Wins Mimi Award

Each year, the Dart Society — a cohort of Ochberg Fellows and winners of the Dart and Mimi Awards — honors an editor who advances compassionate and ethical coverage of trauma, conflict and social injustice. This year that honor goes to Jan Winburn for her decades of work at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Baltimore Sun and other publications. More »

Dart Society Seeks 2009 Mimi Award Nominations

The Dart Society, a group of journalists who have won awards and fellowships from the Dart Center, is seeking nominations for The Mimi Award, bestowed annually on an exemplary editor.

Judging of Mimi Award Nominations Begins

A panel of six distinguished journalists has begun selecting the 2008 Mimi Award, the award committee announced this week.