Posts Tagged ‘trauma’
The Dart Center Guide to Reporting on Sexual Violence
Given the recent conversation on this blog and elsewhere, I thought readers might benefit from this guide. Please share it freely with anyone who might find these tips useful. I think they are helpful for reporting on other sensitive topics, as well. You might also be interested in my post on Meaningful Consent in Trauma [...]
Who gets to tell rape stories from Haiti?
There’s a debate raging about Mac McClelland’s reporting for Mother Jones last fall from Haiti. If you haven’t followed it, a personal essay for GOOD magazine about McClelland’s struggle with PTSD after spending time in Haiti ignited strong feelings – about the relationship between journalism and essays, about neo-colonial representations of the developing world, and [...]
Events that are worth a New York minute — and more
Here are two upcoming events that promise to be interesting and inspiring. If you’re in the City, come on by. If you’re not, tell your metro-friends. (And come say hi to me at the Dart celebration!) A Celebration of the Dart Society, an collective of journalists whose work focuses on trauma, broadly defined. Gloria Steinem [...]
On Reporters and Rape: Three ideas worth rising above the cacophony
There’s been a bevy of people with opinions on Lara Logan’s unfortunate trauma in Egypt. In case you’ve missed it, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS, was sexually assaulted in Cairo while reporting on the uprisings there. A lot of the response I’ve seen has been pretty mindless. There’s Nir Rosen, of course, and his [...]
A roundup of ideas on tweeting rape
Update: For a broader look at constructing a relationship between readers and writers when covering rape and trauma, see my January/February 2011 article in the Columbia Journalism Review (PDF here with permission). For some suggestions on meaningful consent in trauma journalism, see this post. Whether we should tweet rape is a question that seems to [...]
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