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  • Bruce Shapiro

    Executive Director

    Bruce Shapiro is Executive Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism encouraging innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide. An award-winning reporter on human rights, criminal justice and politics, Shapiro is a contributing editor at The Nation and U.S. correspondent for Late Night Live on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National. He is Adjunct Professor and Senior Advisor for Academic Affairs at Columbia, where he teaches journalism ethics. His books include Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America and Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future. Shapiro is recipient of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Public Advocacy Award for "outstanding and fundamental contributions to the social understanding of trauma." He is a founding board member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.

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  • Kate Black

    Director, Programs and Partnerships

    Kate Black is Director of Programs and Partnerships for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a global project that encourages innovative and ethical news coverage on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide. She oversees the Dart Center’s programs and activities worldwide, including the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, the Ochberg Fellowships, the Early Childhood Reporting Initiative, as well as specialized workshops, trainings, and public events. For seven years prior to joining the Dart Center, Kate was a program officer at the Open Society Foundations where she directed the Soros Justice Fellowships and founded and directed the Katrina Media Fellowships, each $1 million grantmaking programs.

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  • Elana Newman

    University of Tulsa
    Research Director

    Elana Newman, Ph.D. is the McFarlin Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Faculty in Media Studies at the University of Tulsa; and Research Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Newman specializes in understanding and treating trauma-related conditions and training students and professionals from many professions about the skills they need to work effectively with people suffering from trauma-related problems. Her research in the field of traumatic stress has examined a wide range of topics including the physical and psychological effects of trauma exposure upon adults and children, health care costs and trauma, journalism and trauma, occupational health and trauma, research ethics in studying trauma survivors, correctional issues and trauma, and substance abuse and trauma. Newman’s work in journalism and trauma focuses on the occupational health of journalists, including safety, harassment, educational needs, coping with trauma exposure, ethics, and the impact of trauma news on consumers.  She directs the creation of an online searchable database of articles related to journalism and trauma available at the Dart Center website. She also trains journalists on interviewing survivors, trauma-informed news management, covering traumatic events in local contexts including sexual violence on campus, self-care and occupational health, and general trauma information. Newman consults with journalists and documentary film makers about various ethical and professional trauma-related issues related to storytelling. Newman is a founding staff member of the Journalist Trauma Support Network to train qualified therapists to care for trauma-impacted journalists team members. She co-directed the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma’s’ first satellite office in NYC after 9-11. Newman is a past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Newman was one of the co-founders of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.

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  • Elissa Castles

    Dart Center
    Communications Associate
    Elissa Castles is the Communications Associate for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. She’s a recent graduate of Columbia Journalism School where she earned her Masters with honors in May of 2023. Besides working with the Dart Center, she is also a freelance audio journalist making podcasts and small stories about the world around us. She also was the Producer on a short documentary called Shelter in Place for “The New Yorker”. She’s originally from Austin, Texas and has been living in New York City for the last 12 years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Texas at Austin where she studied theatre.

     

  • Erin Smith

    Dart Centre Asia Pacific
    CEO

    Dr. Erin Smith (PhD) is the CEO of the Dart Centre Asia Pacific. A longtime advocate for supporting the mental health and wellbeing of first responders and those impacted by trauma, Dr. Smith is a board director for the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine and the Australian First Responder Foundation, an editorial board director for the journals Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, the Journal of High Threat and Austere Medicine, and the Journal of Addictive Diseases, and she writes a regular column for the Australian Emergency Services Magazine. Her research can also be found published widely in academic journals and online media including in The Conversation, where her commentary on the Australian bushfires, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the COVID-19 pandemic have reached a global audience of over 600 million. 

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  • Kimina Lyall

    Dart Centre Asia Pacific
    Deputy CEO

    Dr Kimina Lyall (DPsych, clinical) is a former journalist with The Australian newspaper and Time Australia. During her 15 year career as a reporter, she worked across the paper, on stories as diverse as politics, the Olympics, features and as Southeast Asia correspondent. During that posting she became a survivor of the Boxing Day tsunami, and later wrote a book on the experience Out of the Blue: Facing the Tsunami.

    She has been involved with the Dart Centre as a trainer since 2008 and was a director on the Dart Centre Asia Pacific board up until 2015. She has had a successful career as an executive with Australian Unity, and is currently practicing as a psychologist. She commenced her role as Deputy CEO of Dart Centre Asia Pacific in February 2020.
     
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  • Gavin Rees

    Dart Center
    Senior Advisor for Training and Innovation
    Gavin Rees is the Dart Center's Senior Advisor for Training and Innovation. For many years, Gavin Rees was the director of Dart Centre Europe. Responsible for implementing the Centre’s work across Europe, Gavin ran workshops and discussion groups on trauma awareness, resilience and interviewing skills for working journalists and journalism students in a range of countries around the world.  
     
    Prior to working at the Dart Centre, Gavin produced business and political news for US, British and Japanese news channels, and has worked on drama and documentary films for the BBC, Channel 4 and independent film companies. He was a leading producer on the BBC film Hiroshima, which won an  International Emmy in 2006. He is a visiting fellow in the Media School at Bournemouth University, a board member of the UK Psychological Trauma Society, and was a board member of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies for more than ten years. 
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  • Ariel Ritchin

    Senior Producer, Content & Programs

    Ariel Ritchin is the Senior Producer for the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, a project of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism encouraging innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide. He directs and oversees all editorial content and leads strategic and digital initiatives, while managing specialized programs, workshops and trainings for reporters all over the worldAriel is also a multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker whose audio and video work has appeared on Life of the Law, NBC News and PBS Newshour, among others. He has previously worked in the multimedia department at the ACLU and as a video editor for Lucky Tiger Productions. He is a Logan Nonfiction Fellow, a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow and a Posse Foundation Scholar. Ariel holds an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. from Middlebury College. 

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  • Krystal Grow

    Dart Center
    Program Manager

    Krystal Grow is the Program Manager of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. She was a Senior Photo Editor on the Global Picture Desk at Getty Images from 2014-2019, and from 2019-2023 managed live photo coverage and production logistics for major arts and entertainment events as a Senior Assignment Specialist, providing on-site support for photographers, editors, production staff, and high profile clients. She earned an MA from the Columbia Journalism School in 2013 and her writing on photography has appeared in American Photography, TIME LightBox, WIRED, and the New York Times Lens blog. She has produced and managed events, exhibitions, and public programs for Photoville, the largest public photography festival in the country, the DOC NYC film festival, the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, the Special Collections of the Providence Public Library, and the Narrowsburg Union. In 2021, she founded Greyscale Darkroom and Photo Lab, the only publicly accessible community darkroom and photo space in Sullivan County, New York. 

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  • Juliana Ruhfus

    Dart Centre Europe
    Director

    Juliana Ruhfus took over as director of Dart Centre Europe (DCE) in 2022, a relationship that started in 2010 with her attendance of one of Dart’s first UK retreats. She received the Dart Ochberg fellowship in 2012, followed by a scholarship for Harvard’s Global Trauma Programme in 2013, and more than ten years as a trustee on DCE’s European board of Directors. 

    Juliana is an award-winning internationally known broadcaster and journalist with a career spanning more than twenty-five years working as reporter, film-maker and executive producer in documentary and current affairs production.  She joined the first generation of reporters at Channel 4’s “Unreported World”, went on to become part of the launch team for Al Jazeera English where she spent 16 years as the face on the “People & Power” strand, and then moved BBC World Service Eye as an executive producer tasked with setting up investigations in India.  Her work has always had a strong international focus including coverage of war, conflict and human rights abuses before turning to investigative journalism. 

    Outside DCE Juliana continues to work as a mentor on investigative journalism projects for organisations that include JournalismFund.eu and Open Democracy.  She also serves on the board of trustees for the Environmental Justice Foundation, and on the advisory board for eyeWitness to Atrocities, a project of the International Bar Association.  You can find out more about her work in journalism, broadcast TV, as well as the production of innovative, interactive, investigative projects here. 
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  • Jeanny Gering

    Dart Centre Europe
    Network Director

    Jeanny Gering is Network Director at Dart Centre Europe. She is a TV-News and Documentary Film producer in Germany. She has worked with international broadcasters like the BBC, CBS and Arte. She’s also a screenwriter. Jeanny has worked with Dart Centre Europe since 2012 in diverse roles. Since returning from parental leave Jeanny grows and strengthens the outstanding network of journalists and clinicians who are part of Dart Centre Europe. She coordinates Dart Centre Europe trainers and liaises with partner organisations interested in receiving training in trauma informed reporting and self care for journalists. Jeanny is passionate about listening to individual network members and supporting them in creating innovative, timely initiatives with Dart Centre Europe which support trauma informed journalism and a resilient journalism culture. As Network Manager Jeanny works closely with DCEs Development Director Juliana Ruhfus, as well as colleagues at Dart US and Dart Asia Pacific.

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  • Amantha Perera

    Dart Centre Asia Pacific
    Project Lead
    Amantha Perera is a Project Lead for the Dart Centre Asia Pacific and a foreign correspondent based in Melbourne, Australia. He covers the Asia Pacific region with special interest in conflict, post conflict situations, humanitarian disasters and climate change. He works as a contributor for TIMEReuters/Alertnet, the Inter Press News Service – IPS and the Integrated Regional Information Network – IRIN. Perera is currently pursuing post-graduate research on online trauma threats faced by journalists at CQUniveristy in Melbourne. You can follow him on Twitter at @AmanthaP.

     

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  • Judith Matloff

    Senior Advisor, Safety Training

    Judith Matloff teaches crisis reporting at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. She trailblazed safety training for women and media organizations around the world, helping hundreds of journalists survive an increasingly dangerous world. Over 40 years as a journalist, she has covered top international stories including Rwanda’s genocide, apartheid and the rise of Vladimir Putin. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, the Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal. Earlier in her career, Matloff headed the Moscow and Africa bureaus of the Christian Science Monitor and she spent a decade reporting for Reuters from various countries.

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  • Kate Porterfield

    Kate Porterfield, PhD, is a consulting clinical psychologist at the Bellevue Hospital Program for Survivors of Torture in New York City. Dr. Porterfield has provided clinical care to adults, adolescents and children who have experienced war and refugee trauma and torture for over 20 years. She regularly consults on issues pertaining to trauma, including in cases at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, US courts, and the International Criminal Court and with journalists and human rights organizations. Dr. Porterfield is a founding staff member of a the Journalist Trauma Support Network, an initiative at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. Dr. Porterfield regularly teaches and works with groups around issues of wellbeing, stress management and team communication. She trained with and continues to teach at the legendary Second City improvisational theater.

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  • Tabea Grzeszyk

    Dart Centre Europe
    Journalism & Trauma Training Associate

    Tabea Grzeszyk is an award-winning entrepreneurial- and senior broadcast journalist based in Berlin. Prior to joining Dart Centre Europe, she founded and led the global collaboration network hostwriter.org (2013) and its cross-border newsroom unbiasthenews.org (2020). Tabea started her journalism career at the German National Radio as a long-form feature author and editor-on-duty. Next to her journalism work, she served as an external lecturer of cross-border journalism at Hamburg and Tübingen University, among others. In 2018, she won the Jury Prize at the Google Impact Challenge Germany with Hostwriter and received an honorable mention at the 2019 AmCham Female Founders Award. Following a career break in 2021, Tabea Grzeszyk graduated from the Berlin-based Institute for Coaching and Mindfulness as a certified Systemic Coach & Creative Process Facilitator and is currently training as a Naturopath of Psychotherapy

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Dart Asia Pacific Board

  • Tony Gillies

    Director

    Tony Gillies has been a journalist and editor for 40 years. He is the former Editor in Chief of the Australian Associated Press, where he had full editorial and commercial responsibility for 16 years, navigating the national newswire agency through profound industry change. Until recently, he was also President of the global news agency network MINDS International. Prior to his time at the Australian Associated Press, Tony spent almost 25 years in newspaper publishing as a reporter, editor and editorial trainer.

  • Chong-ae Lee

    Dart Centre Asia Pacific
    Director
    Chong-ae Lee is a journalist for SBS (the Seoul Broadcasting System) in South Korea, where she has worked since 1995. She was the first female investigative reporter for the news magazine program News Pursuit where she worked from 1999 to 2003. This inspired her interest in how journalists should approach a victim of a traumatic event so as to make a positive contribution while getting a story, and conversely how the journalist can handle their resultant trauma.
  • Trina McLellan

    Dart Centre Asia Pacific
    Chair

    Trina McLellan has been a member of Dart Centre Asia Pacific since its inception and has previously served as a board director during its first five years before taking on the role as Board Chair. She has been a working journalist and journalism educator since 1982 and has worked in print, online and radio. Trina currently works as a supervising producer with ABC News Digital, based in Brisbane, Queensland. Over the years, on Dart’s behalf, Trina has delivered various forms of trauma awareness and trauma-informed interview skills training to tertiary students, community radio presenters, newsroom journalists and visiting overseas journalists (via an AusAid program) and, online, for the former Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. Trina has taught journalism and photojournalism students at the Queensland University of Technology, the University of Queensland, the University of Southern Queensland, the University of the Sunshine Coast and Griffith University. She has also prepared university journalism students to safely cover Brisbane’s 2014 G20 Meeting and the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. With a B.Bus-Comn (Journ), MA (Research), Trina’s 2003 MA thesis – The Impact of News Reporting on Victims and Survivors of Traumatic Incidents – was described as "groundbreaking" in what was then an emerging field of Australian research.

  • Cait McMahon

    Dart Centre Asia Pacific
    Founding Director

    Cait McMahon OAM, PhD is a registered psychologist and the founding managing director of Dart Centre Asia Pacific, serving on the Board from its inception in 2003 until her retirement in March, 2023. Dart Asia Pacific has its headquarters in Melbourne, Australia and holds trainings and other programs throughout the Asia Pacific region. McMahon has been interested in the nexus of journalism and trauma since working as staff counsellor at The Age newspaper in Melbourne in the mid 1980’s and 90’s. This interest pushed her to pursue postgraduate research on trauma exposed journalists in 1993 with subsequent publications. Her PhD focused on Australian trauma reporting journalists, post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth. Cait has received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), one of Australia’s highest civil accolades, for her work with journalists and trauma.

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Dart Europe Board

  • Kirsty Cunningham

    Director

    Kirsty Cunningham is an award winning filmmaker who specialises in complex access documentaries. She is currently Creative Director, The Documentary Unit, BBC Studios overseeing the documentary output. Kirsty has worked as staff at BBC Studios for the past two years, and for over 20 years before that as freelance filmmaker and executive producer.

    Kirsty has explored many challenging subjects including the healthcare, social care and criminal justice systems, childhood bereavement through murder and manslaughter, teenage mental health, violence against women and girls and drug abuse. She has a particular interest in finding ways to engage children and young people in the process of film making and give a voice to those who may have never had that opportunity before in a supported and protected manner. 

    Whether working on popular primetime series such as ‘Ambulance’ or ’24 Hours in A&E’ or singles including ‘Grenfell: The Untold Story’, ‘Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story’ or ‘A Killing in My Family’ she is committed to finding ways to support the team and crew to be trauma informed in their approach to both the editorial and in their engagement with contributors as well as thinking about their footprint as film makers. A key part of this involves collaborating with trauma professionals. She believes that working closely with contributors over long periods of time ensures a different type of engagement with the process, and often facilitates a cathartic experience for her subjects

    The films she has been involved with have won Grierson, BAFTA, Mind Media Award, RTS, New York Film Festival and been nominated for the Broadcast Press Guild, National Television Awards

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  • Angelina Fusco

    DCE Board Chair, 2014 Senior Fellow, 2012 Ochberg Fellow

    Angelina Fusco is Chair of Dart Centre Europe, and one of its associate trainers in journalism and trauma. She was a recipient of a Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship in 2012 and was a Senior Fellow in 2014.

    Fusco is a communications and media trainer for the Belfast company, Channel56 and sits on Ofcom's Advisory Committee in Northern Ireland and is a former member of the organisation's Content Board. She is on the Board of Tourism NI and Chair of its audit & risk committee. Angelina served two terms at the  National Lottery Heritage Fund, NI.

    Fusco is a communications and media trainer for the Belfast company, Channel56 and sits on Ofcom's Advisory Committee in Northern Ireland and is a former member of the organisation's Content Board. She is on the Board of Tourism NI and Chair of its audit & risk committee. Angelina served two terms at the  National Lottery Heritage Fund, NI.

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  • Barbara Hans

    Director

    As a journalist, I worked for many years at SPIEGEL ONLINE and DER SPIEGEL: as editor, reporter, head of department and editor-in-chief. I have been rewarded as “Editor-in-Chief of the Year”. As a coach and consultant, I work with individuals and teams. This often involves personal and strategic development, conflict resolution and the digital transformation of organisations.

    I have worked as a researcher at the universities of Münster, Hamburg, Sussex (UK) and at Columbia University, New York, and completed my doctorate with a multidisciplinary thesis on trust. Trust has been the focus of my scientific research for about 20 years and it forms the bracket of my academic and practical work: trust as a prerequisite for successful journalism, successful leadership and the basis of an innovative corporate culture.

    As a communication scientist, I deal with the (re)gaining and loss of trust. Because trust is a prerequisite for all successful communication. Since the boundaries between coaching and therapy are sometimes fluid, it is helpful to understand issues even more deeply. Therefore, I have completed additional training and also work as a systemic therapist. This knowledge enriches my trainings, especially on trauma and journalism and self-care/resilience.

    I have been involved with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (NY) since 2005 and am working as a director of Dart Center Europe since 2021. I developed the first curriculum for journalism and trauma in Europe and taught it at universities and journalism schools. As a trainer I work with editorial offices on issues around trauma, self-care and ethical reporting. For more Information about my work and background: www.barbarahans.de

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  • Zahera Harb

    Director

    Dr. Zahera Harb is director of MA International Journalism and MA Media and Globalisation (Erasmus Mundus) programs at City University of London. Her publications include an edited collection titled “Reporting the Middle East: the Practice of News in the 21st Century” (IB Tauris 2017) and an edited collection with Dina Matar titled “Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communication Practices in Palestine and Lebanon” (IB Tauris 2013) and a monograph titled “Channels of Resistance: Liberation Propaganda Hezbollah and the Media“ (IB Tauris, 2011). She has published widely on Journalism and Politics in the Arab region. She is co-editor of Bloomsbury-IB Tauris book series with Dr Dina Matar on “Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa”. She is co-editor of Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. She is Associate editor of the internationally renowned top ranking academic journal Journalism Practice.

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  • Karen Fowler-Watt

    Director

    Dr. Karen Fowler-Watt is Professor of Journalism and Global Narratives at Bournemouth University and a Senior Fellow of the UK’s. Higher Education Academy (Advance HE). As a BBC journalist, she worked as an output editor for Radio 4 News and Current affairs, where she made investigative documentaries and was a field producer in the Middle East, covering the Gulf Crisis and War in 1990/1 and producing news output from Moscow, Europe, Northern Ireland and the United States, with a stint as Washington bureau producer.

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  • Jana D. Javakhishvili

    Dart Centre Europe
    Director

    Jana D. Javakhishvili is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute of Addiction Studies at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 2020 she is a Trustee of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma Europe (DCE). Since 2006 she is heavily engaged in the projects of the Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry (FGIP) focused at improving human rights-based mental health care in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, and other war- and political oppressions-affected countries. She is the Past President of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS). Currently, she is on the board of directors of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), leads the Global Crisis – Armed Conflict Thematic Group of the Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress (GC-TS) and serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT). Her research interests focus on exploring mental health and psychosocial well-being of war- and political oppression-affected populations.

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  • Stephen Jukes

    Board Chair

    Stephen Jukes is Professor of Journalism at Bournemouth University's Faculty of Media & Communication, one of the largest of its kind in Europe with an international reputation for combining research, teaching and professional practice. His research focuses on areas of objectivity and emotion in news with an emphasis on trauma and conflict journalism. He was previously a foreign correspondent and editor at the international news agency Reuters. During a series of overseas postings he covered or oversaw coverage of stories ranging from the ousting of Margaret Thatcher to the fall of the Berlin Wall, two Gulf Wars and September 11. In his final position at Reuters, he was Global Head of News and executive editor for a series of books on the Middle East conflict.  He chairs the Dart Centre for Journalism & Trauma in Europe and is a trustee of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting.

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  • Gill Moreton

    Director

    Gill is a psychological therapist at the Rivers Centre for Traumatic Stress in Edinburgh specialising in the treatment of adults who have developed traumatic stress reactions. She is involved in training and research in the UK and internationally, and has a particular interest in work with emergency service personnel and other staff with occupational exposure to potentially traumatic stressors.

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  • Emma Thomasson

    Director

    Emma Thomasson is a journalist, leadership coach and consultant, specialising in workplace mental health, diversity and inclusion. She worked for Reuters for 27 years as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief. Her career took her from London to Germany, South Africa, the Middle East, the Netherlands, Switzerland and back to Germany. At Reuters, she was heavily involved in equity and mental health initiatives. She was a coordinator of the peer network at Reuters, which has made major strides to break down stigma about mental health issues. She also set up a new global editorial mentoring programme for Reuters. Since leaving the company in 2022, she has worked as a consultant and trainer, including for the Thomson Reuters Foundation on a project to support journalists forced to flee their home countries, in collaboration with the Dart Centre Europe. She is also working on a media literacy initiative to promote solutions-based journalism for young people to counter rising mental health issues and news avoidance.

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  • Patricia Deane

    Director

    A Chartered Member of the CIPD, Patricia Deane has extensive senior HR management experience and is currently the Head of People & Organisational Development at the Northern Ireland Hospice in Belfast. In a career spanning over 30 years Patricia has led teams of HR professionals in the public, private and Third sectors in Northern Ireland including, broadcasting and print media, retail and more recently in Hospices in Northern Ireland.  

    Committed to achieving and maintaining effective HR practices that deliver for the business, Patricia has a proven track record in leadership and management development, change management and employee relations. An ILM accredited coach, Patricia works to embed a coaching culture into organisations and see this approach as the best way to enhance knowledge and skills and grow the potential of staff to develop into effective managers and leaders of the future.

    A Graduate of the University of Ulster, she holds a Humanities Degree in French and Politics, a Masters in Business Administration, and Post-Graduate Certificates and Diplomas in Human Resources and in Learning & Development.

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Country Contacts

  • Klas Backholm

    Country Contact, Finnish Network

    Klas Backholm is a journalism and trauma researcher at the Developmental Psychology Department at Åbo Akademi University in Vaasa, Finland, where he specialises in the psychology of crisis situations. Since the beginning of 2008, Backholm has been involved in creating a Dart network in Finland. Klas is currenlty involved in research projects focusing on risk factors for psychological impairment in journalists working with mass shootings, and on journalists' usage of social media platforms during crisis-related work assignments. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the psychological well-being of journalists after crisis-related work. Prior to become a lecturer, Klas worked as a news journalist at the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

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  • Elaine Cobbe

    Country Contact, French Network

    Elaine Cobbe is a seasoned news journalist with more than 20 years of experience of covering international events. A correspondent for CBS News, she is based in Paris and has reported from around the world, including Iraq, Kosovo and Rwanda. She is also a regular commentator of French news on radio in Ireland, South Africa and New Zealand.

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  • Liselotte Englund

    Country Contact, Scandinavian Network

    Liselotte Englund is Head of Department (Prefect) of Environmental and Life Sciences; Faculty of Health, Science and Technology at Karlstad University, Sweden. She is also Assistant Professor of Media and Communication Studies, stationed at Risk Management. Besides she is a member of the Universitys’ Executive Committes at Center for Public Safety and Health Academy. She is a former postdoctoral fellow at the National Centre of Disaster Psychiatry at Uppsala University and a freelance journalist who runs her own company, Liselotte Englund Media AB.

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  • Chiung-wen (Julia) Hsu

    Country Contact, Chinese-Speaking Network

    Chiung-wen (Julia) Hsu is an associate professor of College of Communication at National Cheng Chi University in Taiwan. She has a PhD in communication from the State University of New York at Buffalo and she has been working on media coverage of victims since 2004. 

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  • Trond Idås

    Country Contact, Scandinavian Network

    Trond Idås is an advisor for the Norwegian Union of Journalists, and is responsible for national courses in safety and trauma training for professional journalists. He lectures in journalism and truama at Oslo University College.

     

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  • Milorad Ivanovic

    Country Contact, Balkan Network

    Milorad Ivanovic is the deputy editor-in-chief of Blic, the largest Serbian daily newspaper. He was previously the paper’s foreign affairs editor and has a special interest in investigative and cross-border journalism. Milorad founded the Media Focus, Center for Investigative Journalism in Serbia and is on the board of SCOOP, a network of investigative journalists working in East and Southeastern Europe.
     

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  • Olga Kravtsova

    Country Contact, Russian Network

    Olga Kravtsova, a former Fulbright Scholar in residence at the University of Washington, coordinates Dart Center activities in Russia.  Kravtsova has a background in psychology, holds a PhD degree from Moscow State University and has worked with different traumatized populations such as rape survivors and forced migrants since 1994. She has studied human rights, trauma and related issues and is co-author of two books and several articles on the psychology of trauma and social tolerance.

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