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Why Journalists Need to Learn About Trauma

A survey of j-school professors and journalists emphasized the value of education and training in trauma reporting, with suggestions for how this learning can happen.

When Language Fails Us

‘… truth is not at all lovely and not at all reconcilable with the military communiqués of war correspondence.’

Tugging Meaning Out of Trauma

‘The journalists, by telling the survivors’ stories, are a witness to the witness and they bring that story to the larger society.’

The Important History News Organizations Have to Tell

By creating archives of company records ‘we can learn how the paper developed and organized itself, how editors and reporters approached stories, and how community leaders and ordinary citizens responded…
Forming Connection, Finding Comfort

Forming Connection, Finding Comfort

An Essay in Words and Photographs
Shooting War: A Photographer’s Vision

Shooting War: A Photographer’s Vision

An Essay in Words and Photographs

When Murder Strikes a Small Community

‘What is a news organization’s responsibility to its reporters who are eyewitness to murder? Can an editorial staff experience depression or long-term PTSD as a result of such exposure?’

How to Do an Interview—When Trauma Is the Topic

‘It’s just a totally different landscape when dealing with someone who’s been traumatized. They don’t know the rules, and what’s so essential in these interviews is to give the person…

Trauma in New Orleans: In the Wake of Katrina

Journalists and a poet explore this story’s intimacy, its emotional power, and its cultural significance.

The Conference | Covering Violence and Tragedy

A doctor in a Fallujah, Iraq hospital raises an X-ray to show head injuries to this 9-year-old boy whose home was hit by American airstrikes. Three members of his family,…