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David Common was CBC's lead reporter on the ground in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, and during an unprecedented search for the two suspects. Here in J-Source, he shares his experience following this breaking story that gripped the world.
When Boston.com buckled under the pressure of the traffic that news of the explosions sent its way, the site redirected its homepage to ScribbleLive, allowing Boston.com to still update their readers in real-time even after the site went down.
The much-maligned Twitter didn’t do much better than conventional sources of hard news, but it wasn’t doing much worse, either, writes National Post columnist Matt Gurney.
After the frenzied scramble comes, in time, self-examination. It needs to be the other way round, says Cliff Lonsdale, president of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma.
Covering mental health issues takes tact, responsibility and a commitment to stories that push back against societal stigma. Olivia Schneider looks at how mental health stories are covered, the problems that persist in the coverage and how journalists can overcome them.
Britain’s newspaper publishers and editors are scrambling to come up with a new framework for self-regulation, working against the clock to avoid a legislation-assisted solution in the wake of last week’s devastating Leveson report. But as Cliff Lonsdale reports, something is missing from the debate.
How do you give voice to the voiceless without damaging them in the process? Paula Last reports from the recent CAJ event on interviewing trauma survivors, explaining how journalists can be sensitive when telling their deeply personal stories
As j-school students we know our future jobs as journalists carry risks, both physical and emotional. Katie Starr explains after a recent Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma workshop, you don’t need to travel halfway across the world to experience the risks that come along with being a journalist.
Thanks to the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, its partners and the Forum Freelance Fund, four freelance journalists will undergo hazardous environment training in the coming months.
Covering Violence & Trauma
edited by JANE HAWKES and CLAUDE ADAMS
This section deals with the physical and emotional safety of journalists in Canada and abroad, the impact of coverage on people caught up in violent and traumatic stories and the effects that covering violence and trauma may have on news consumers.
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