Assignment Crisis: A Workshop for News Managers Responsible for Mideast and Japan Coverage

Assignment Crisis: A Workshop for News Managers Responsible for Mideast and Japan Coverage

Space is limited and reservations are required. RSVP at: (202) 662-7523 or [email protected]

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 Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library at the National Press Club, in partnership with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the Columbia Journalism School, presents a half-day workshop for news managers responsible for decision-making on these and other stories involving large-scale violence, disaster and tragedy.

This closed-door workshop will offer a chance to reflect on newsroom issues raised during these crises, and will evidence-informed best practice for managers handling ongoing challenges such returning journalists and teams, traumatic stress and other psychological injury; family and partner support; and newsroom-wide crises such as abductions and physical threat to teams.

The workshop will include briefings on:

·Trauma awareness for managers: how journalists, news teams and newsrooms are affected by covering violence and tragedy

·How managers can more effectively support journalists and teams before, during and after crisis assignments;

·Building a resilient news team;

·Lessons learned from past crises.

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 program will be led by Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (www.DartCenter.org).

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, website 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. Please visit us at DartCenter.org