Journalists who cover trauma and violence have to tread carefully for the sake of those directly involved for their own physical and emotional health.The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma offers journalists thoughtful help for covering a variety of difficult subjects, including suicide, violence and children, domestic violence, interviewing victims and sexual violence. It offers self-help advice for journalists who sometimes struggle to cope with the violence they see.
"Tragedies and Journalists," a booklet available online and in pdf format, offers good advice on many of these issues.
(Photo of Holly Pickett, a UM alum who covered the revolution in Libya. Photo by Remi Ochlik/IP3 Press.)
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