Nine more journalists joined Digital First Media’s peer-support efforts at a seminar June 3 in Pittsfield, Mass. led by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma’s Bruce Shapiro and Elana Newman. The seminar came a few weeks after a similar workshop at the York Daily Record attended by 15 journalists
Right now, the idea of a peer-support program for journalists who cover stories of trauma is something new and different for the YDR and for Digital First Media newsrooms in Pennsylvania. But we hope that, in time, it becomes second nature — like deciding on the best photos from a
When I read a blog post from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma about a new video called “Getting it Right: Ethical Reporting on Traumatized People,” the words of Roger Membrey, an Australian man whose daughter had been murdered, hit me squarely: “Look, we are not a commodity. Our daughter
Thursday is a big day for us. We’ll be hosting several colleagues from Digital First Media’s Pennsylvania newsrooms, as well as a few of our own YDR staffers, to kick off our trauma journalism peer-support program. The program, and this day, started a couple years ago when photojournalist Jason Plotkin
When a Montgomery County man killed six members of his family and became the subject of a manhunt last December, Digital First Media’s properties in the area put all the resources they could on the story. That included reporter Eric Devlin, not normally a police reporter, heading to the suspect’s home
Toward the end of the day, Frank Ochberg was thinking out loud: Maybe, he told a group of journalists, we’re starting a trauma journalism movement here in Pennsylvania. More than 20 journalists — from eastern and western Pennsylvania and from newsrooms large and small — had gathered July 30 in
In this age of social media, many of us have loads of “friends” we’ve never seen face-to-face, people we communicate with on a regular basis, but have never really met. That term itself can be strange. We meet people all the time, on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram, but we
The Daily Record/Sunday News often uses databases and spreadsheets in its reporting — including a recent story on vaccination rates — and collects other databases in which you can find your own stories (or just explore to satisfy your curiosity), such as teacher salaries. There is plenty more to discover
In peer-support training March 12 at the YDR, Digital First Media journalists broke into small groups led by seminar presenters to discuss questions and ideas about peer-support conversations they might have with colleagues. Fifteen DFM journalists attended the training. Former heavyweight boxing champ Joe Frazier is famous for saying that
Journalists are first responders, joining police, firefighters, fire policemen and emergency medical workers, on the front lines. For some journos, this work can be taxing mentally and physically. The York, Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News has developed a program to address trauma in journalism and to train journalists in reporting on