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First Dead Body
ABC cameraman Peter Drought tells a story most journalists neither forget nor openly discuss: the first brush with another's death. |
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Journalists Talk Trauma on New DVD
Australian journalists share the stories that have had the greatest impact on them, and how they coped—or tried to—in "News Media & Trauma," a DVD now available from Dart Centre Australasia. |
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Dart Centre Australasia January 2008 Update
The January 2008 newsletter from Dart Centre Australasia: "Meet the Dart Australia 2007 Ochberg Fellow"; "Encountering traumatic news for the first time"; "Preparing for a hometown disaster"; "Trauma and journalism in Indonesia"; "Introducing Trina McLellan" (Click here for a PDF version) ... |
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Journalism and Trauma Award
The Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ASTSS) is offering its annual media award to recognise excellence in journalistic reporting of traumatic events in any media. The winner will take home $1,000. Applications close July 31. For further information and an application, click here ... |
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Dart Centre Australasia Autumn Update
The autumn newsletter from Dart Centre Australasia: “Beginning to make a real difference”; “Meet the Dart Australia 2006 Ochberg Fellow”; “When loss touches newsrooms”; “Reaching out to families of killed news workers”; “Introducing Professor Kerry Green” ... |
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“Open Letter to Editors and Managers of Australian news media”
 Senior Australian journalists, following a meeting at Coff's Harbour convened by the Dart Centre Australasia, have drafted an open letter calling on the country's editors and news managers to foster “the resilience of news workers to handle the trauma and violence we face in our daily work” ... |
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“The trauma of journalism”
Reportage, the magazine of the UTS journalism program and the Australian Center for Independant Journalism, has posted an article about the Dart Centre's research director, Dr Elana Newman, along with video of a presentation by Newman and Dart Centre Australasia director Cait McMahon ... |
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“No-one in their right mind”
2006 Ochberg Fellow Melissa Sweet has written about last fall's Fellowship seminar in The Walkley magazine ... |
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Dart Centre Australasia Winter Update
The winter newsletter from Dart Centre Australasia. Geoff Adams, assistant editor of The Shepparton News and a participant in a recent Dart Center Australasia training session, writes about his paper's procedures for helping staff members who cover traumatic stories. (Click here for a PDF version) ... |
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Book Review: “E-mails from the Edge”
“Emails from the Edge” by Ken Haley is a travel book with a difference. Haley takes us with him, through emailed articles and diary entries, on his sojourn to exotic and unpronounceable destinations. He also takes us on a parallel journey into what Haley himself describes as his own personal “madness” ... |
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Dart Centre-Australasia press release on Port Arthur coverage
News organisations around the country are today being urged to more closely consider victims, survivors and witnesses when covering traumatic incidents and their anniversaries ... |
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 Covering the Port Arthur Massacre
Judy Tierney
Tierney recalls covering the massacre.She writes: “There are too many harrowing stories to relate here. The aftermath of the massacre was as profound as the event itself.” ...
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 Reporting in East Timor
Peter Tukan
Peter Tukan, an Indonesian reporter with Antara’s Atambua office, writes about his experiences reporting from both inside East Timor prior to its independence, and living in the border region (on the Indonesian side) post independence. Story is available in English and Bahasa ...
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 The “Balibo Five”—30 Years Later
Shirley Shackleton
Oct. 16, 2005, will mark 30 years since five Australian television journalists were killed in a dawn raid by Indonesian special forces personnel in the small East Timorese border town of Balibo. Shirley Shackleton, the widow of one of the “Balibo Five,” recently spoke with Dart Centre Australasia director Cait McMahon ...
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 The emotional toll of disaster reporting
Kimina Lyall
Being tough, gruff and disconnected from the story might work well in political reporting, but those attributes don’t serve a story of such widespread despair as the tsunami.
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Close encounters
Gary Tippet
‘We're intruding, going in unwanted—and often unnecessarily—to intrude ourselves on people's private grief. We need to be incredibly careful how we go about that task. It is an awesome responsibility.’ |
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 Advice From One Who's Been There
Patrick Hamilton
Award-winning Australian photographer Patrick Hamilton talks about covering the tsunamis that killed more than 2200 in Papua New Guinea in 1998.
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Tsunami Coverage Resources for Australasian Media
Many Australasian news organisations have assigned reporters, photographers and camera crews and other news personnel to cover difficult, distressing and sometimes still dangerous areas across the Indian Ocean rim in the wake of the horrendous Boxing Day tsunami. |
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Trauma and the world of news media
Reports from the inaugural Dart Center Australasia symposium in Melbourne. Speakers included Sandy McFarlane, head of Psychiatry at Adelaide University; Sydney Morning Herald executive director Tom Burton; Jason South of The Age; Hugh Riminton of Channel Nine; and Trina McLellan, researcher and journalism lecturer. |
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