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In Pursuing a Personal Project, Global Dimensions Emerge

‘As photojournalists casting about for creative and meaningful direction in the face of … an industry shifting beneath our feet, we may be best served by following the threads of…
March 15, 2010

Global Health Reporting: Expertise Matters

For three years global health fellows have been a part of each Nieman class, and the great value rendered by their study and subsequent reporting is measurable.
March 9, 2010

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.
February 22, 2010

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.’
January 20, 2010

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…
December 17, 2009
Forming Connection, Finding Comfort

Forming Connection, Finding Comfort

An Essay in Words and Photographs
December 15, 2009

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?’
December 15, 2009

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…
December 15, 2009

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.
December 15, 2009

The Conference | Covering Violence and Tragedy

Trauma resides on pathways carved by acts of violence, witnessed and experienced, and by the close proximity of tragedy. The sudden upheaval visited on an individual, whether she is the…
December 15, 2009