Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Border Journalism Educators Form Coalition

Journalism educators at campuses near the U.S.-Mexico border have teamed up to create the Border Journalism Network (BJN)/La Red de Periodismo de la Frontera.

Student Journalists Covering U.S.-Mexico Border Face Trauma, Danger

By Clayton R. Norman

Journalists and educators came together at the University of Arizona to develop strategies for teaching student journalists to safely and ethically report on a region wracked by violence.

Ghost Town

By Cecilia Ballí

The crossfire of drug-related violence is rendering farming towns along the U.S.-Mexico border virtually uninhabitable. Texas Monthly staff writer Cecilia Balli, a 2010 Dart Center Ochberg Fellow, reports on residents of one border town who live amid escalating terror.

Beyond the Border

By Meg Spratt

Journalism students in Arizona and New York trade places, traveling to Manhattan and the U.S.-Mexico border to explore immigrant issues with sensitivity and depth.

Beyond the Border: The Teachers' View

By Brittany Birkett

Yvonne Latty of New York University and Celeste González de Bustamante at the University of Arizona developed an innovative way to journalism students hands-on experience covering immigrant issues. Here's how they did it.

Seminar Highlights Mexican Journalists' Vulnerability

The violence that surrounds drug trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico border makes it among the most dangerous and difficult beats any journalist can cover. Twenty six reporters from both sides of the border who cover this beat  gathered at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas in Austin, Texas on March 26 and 27, 2010 to discuss how to stay safe and get stories out at a seminar sponsored by the McCormick Foundation. More »

Workshop: Teaching Border Reporting

At the University of Arizona in Tucson, a three-day closed workshop for journalism educators about effective coverage of U.S.-Mexico border issues.

Workshop: Investigative Reporters and Editors Bilingual Watchdog Training

In Laredo, Texas, a bilingual workshop on issues related to border coverage, including telling stories amid chronic threat and how to better cover stories on immigration, government corruption, and crime.