Fact Sheets for the Press

Below is a list of information currently available from the National Center for PTSD about how media coverage of trauma, disasters and terrorism may affect individuals and communities as well as the journalists themselves. For more information search the PILOTS database for a more complete listing of articles available on this topic.

Fact Sheets for the Press:

• How Communities May Be Affected by Media Coverage of Terrorist Attacks
  Why do we watch coverage of horrific acts and how does watching all this television affect us? Research findings broken down by children and adults.
  
• Working with Trauma Survivors: What workers need to know
  More indepth information regarding traumatic stress, for the people who are working with trauma survivors.
  
• PTSD in Journalists
  Discusses traumatic events encountered by journalists and key studies pertaining to journalists and PTSD.