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Amid Trauma, Knowing Who Wants to Share Their Story

By Lisa Krantz• Trauma-informed Journalism• January 12, 2023

One week after the May 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, I attended a vigil for the victims. I felt it was important to arrive early to ask permission from people attending the event who I … Read more

An Overdue Generational Shift Is Changing How Journalists Manage Traumatic Stories

By Ann Marie Lipinski• From the Curator• December 16, 2022

Michelle Ye Hee Lee has sharp memories of her first traumatic assignment. It was 2011, and U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords had been shot in a suburban Arizona supermarket parking lot, the victim of a gunman whose rampage that January morning … Read more

Newsletter: Why Some Journalists Are Centering Trauma-Informed Reporting

By Laura Colarusso• Newsletter• September 8, 2022

From the senior editor Hello, I had just started a new job covering the Pentagon when the Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. It was February of 2003, and because several of the crew members had been in … Read more

Why Some Journalists Are Centering Trauma-Informed Reporting

By Julia Craven• Features• August 24, 2022

In April 2020, as the pandemic was raging across the United States, Ed Yong noticed that many people he interviewed felt exhausted. They worked in pandemic preparedness or emergency response before the virus was officially found in the United States. Read more

Tara Reade’s Allegations and Trauma-Informed Reporting

By Issac J. Bailey• Opinion• May 21, 2020

The more I read about Tara Reade’s story, the less I know about her sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden. That’s a problem, not just for Reade but for every serious journalistic attempt to litigate decades-old … Read more

What Could Trauma-Informed Journalism Look Like?

By Anne Godlasky• Covering Gun Violence• January 22, 2020

When I hear teachers or soldiers or ministers talk about what they do as a calling, I get it. Though the public may not believe it, journalists carry a similar sense of duty and purpose, a similar feeling of being … Read more

The Trauma of Covering Traumatic Events

By Issac J. Bailey• Opinion• September 11, 2017

I had increasingly intense visions of harming my wife. That’s not quite right. I had been having off-and-on images of violent events for years—seeing myself raped in prison or impaled during car crashes—and they finally became visions of hurting my … Read more

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