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
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
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 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
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
We’re honored that the Pennsylvania Newsmedia Association has recognized the York Daily Record/Sunday News with two statewide awards.
I wrote down some thoughts about what I hope to get out of a week in New York at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.
The Daily Record/Sunday News’ project “Finding their way out,” which examined the lasting trauma left by a school shooting in Red Lion in 2003, was recently honored as a finalist in the Editor and Publisher “Eppy” awards for “Best Community Service on a Media-Affiliated Website with under 1 million unique monthly visitors.”
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
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