Workshop helps news managers tackle Mideast, Asia, 9:30 am May 13

Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, will lead a workshop at 9:30 a.m. Friday, May 13, designed to help news managers responsible for decision-making on stories involving large-scale violence, disaster and tragedy.

Political violence, social upheaval, and natural disaster pose unique challenges to news organizations. The ongoing crises in the Mideast and Japan are placing foreign staffs, Washington production teams and managers under extraordinary stress.

The workshop will run from 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. in the Bloomberg Training Center.
Space is limited and reservations are required. RSVP at: (202) 662-7523 or [email protected]

The event is co-sponsored by the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library and the Dart Center (www.DartCenter.org).

This closed-door workshop will offer a chance to reflect on newsroom issues raised during crises and will explore best practices for managers handling ongoing challenges related to traumatic stress and other psychological injury; family and partner support; and newsroom-wide crises such as abductions and physical threat to reporter teams.

The workshop is built on Dart Center programs developed by leading clinicians in collaboration with journalists and news managers, drawing on the experience of journalists and news organizations covering large-scale crises worldwide.

The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, is dedicated to informed, innovative and ethical news reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy.

Through its awards and fellowship programs, professional development, research, Web site and other work, the Dart Center provides journalists and news professionals around the world with the resources necessary to meet the challenges of reporting on street crime, family violence, natural disaster, war and human rights.