Facing Torture: Comprehensive New Report Tracks Victims of CIA Abuses
For the first time, a report has been released on the CIA’s post 9/11 secret torture campaign which details the abuse of 136 named victims. Through the Open Society Justice Initiative’s 216-page report...
View ArticleNarco Estado: Teun Voeten on Drug-Related Violence in Mexico
Between 2009 and 2011, photojournalist & anthropologist Teun Voeten covered the drug-related violence in some of Mexico's most dangerous regions. Julian Rubinstein sat down with Teun at Henry...
View ArticleOn the Media: Unprepared, Inexperienced and in a War Zone
On Wednesday night, 2012 Ochberg Fellow Stuart Hughes chaired a panel discussion at London's Frontline Club, which focused on today’s challenges, opportunities and risks for freelance journalists....
View ArticleIf It Bleeds, It Leads...To Troubling Comments
Crime stories in many papers are the most-read stories. They are also often the most commented-upon. But while comments are considered an essential way to engage and keep readers, they also can lead to...
View ArticleTensions Flare As Steubenville Rape Case Prepares For Trial
The Steubenville High School rape case is set to go to trial March 13, and tensions continue to escalate in the aftermath of the incident involving at least two of the school’s star football players...
View ArticleA First In Pakistan, As Dart Centre Asia Pacific Conducts Training
The Dart Centre Asia Pacific facilitated a five-day training session for 11 media professionals in Pakistan, tailored to help the participants train other reporters on ways to deal with stress and...
View ArticleBalancing Act: Student Journalists Reflect on the NIU Shooting
Five years after a gunman opened fire on a classroom of 120 at Northern Illinois University, killing five people and wounding 21 others, former student journalists reflected on their experiences...
View ArticleChaplain Tells Military Sexual Assault Victim: "Rape Was God's Will"
After former Army Sgt. Rebekah Havrilla was sexually assaulted by a fellow service member while serving in Afghanistan, she sought guidance from an Army chaplain. “The rape was God’s will,” the...
View ArticleNew Name, Renewed Mission
The Dart Society, the journalists' membership organization which grew out of the work of the Dart Center, has a new name: the Ochberg Society for Trauma Journalism.The new name honors psychiatrist...
View ArticleAttacks on Women Journalists the Focus of UN Panel
Cia Pak; Dart Center Research Director Elana Newman at the UN's 57th session of the Commission of the Status on Women..In February 2011, the world was stunned by the news that CBS war correspondent...
View ArticleDart's Shapiro To Participate in Sandy Hook Panel
In advance of the Dart Center’s day-long symposium on the Sandy Hook massacre in conjunction with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Dart Center Executive Director Bruce Shapiro will participate in...
View ArticleDe Cesare Featured in NYT Lens Blog
Donna De Cesare, the Dart Center’s Latin America Coordinator and Dart Media Curator, is featured in today’s New York TimesLens Blog for her new book Unsettled/Desasosiego (University of Texas Press)....
View ArticleRethinking Public Safety: Shapiro on Connecticut's Gun Law
In advance of the Dart Center’s April 22 symposium Sandy Hook and Beyond: Breaking News, Trauma and Aftermath, Dart Center executive director Bruce Shapiro writes in the Nation this week about the new...
View ArticleA National Call for Protest in Mexico Amidst Controversy Over Journalist's Death
On April 28, 2012, Mexican journalist Regina Martinez was found beaten and strangled to death in her bathroom in Xalapa, the capital of Veracruz, on the gulf coast of Mexico. A drifter with a drug...
View ArticleNominations Open For Investigative Reporting Prize
The Global Investigative Journalism Network is now accepting submissions for the 2013 Global Shining Light Award, which honors investigative journalism in a developing or transitioning country, done...
View ArticleFor Press Freedom, and Safety of Journalists
Today, in many countries across the globe, freedom of the press and freedom of expression are celebrated as fundamental human rights. Following the most deadly year for journalists to date, governments...
View ArticleAsia Pacific Fellowship Opens
This year's Dart Centre Asia Pacific Fellows—16 journalists from 10 countries—assembled at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok on Sunday night. After briefings on the impact of violence and disaster,...
View ArticleAsPac Fellowship: Day Two
As the 2013 Asia Pacific Fellowship continues in Bangkok, Fellows Meena Ahmed, a reporter at The News International in Pakistan, and Julius D. Mariveles, a freelance and journalist and safety activist...
View ArticleDart Academic Fellows and Norwegian Photographer Revisit Utoya
During the 2012 Dart Academic Fellowship at Columbia Journalism School last June, the journalism scholars who comprised the Fellowship cohort had a fortuitous meeting that resulted, one year later, in...
View ArticleSuicide Rates Climb; Misperceptions Remain
Two troubling reports were released this past week about climbing suicide rates, each of which point out misperceptions in the public's understanding. One study, released by the Center for Disease...
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