The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "trauma" ...
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Children and Trauma: Interviewing Tips
Black provides interview guidelines for reporters interviewing children who have been through traumatic events. She provides general guidelines, as well as details for interviews at the scene of a crime or disaster; covers interview pointers for past traumas, too. (Available in English and Spanish.)
Tags: children; trauma; disasters; crime; violence; grave illness; guidelines
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Covering Invisible Populations
Teichroeb outlines lessons she's learned while covering marginalized people and populations - such female prisoners and abused students. Much of her tipsheet touches on issues of developing the trust of your sources. Teichroeb includes links to a handful of stories she completed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Tags: marginalized populations; trauma; abuse; sources; documents; ethics; conflict of interest; Dart Center on Journalism and Trauma and Dart Society
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We don't want journalists that act like machines
Question and answers about speaking to victims of traumatic events. It examines not only about those who were part of the event but also the journalist that must cover it.
Tags: trauma; victims; interview; journalist; dramatic stories; event
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Walking the graveyards: caring about victims and the powerless so that we drive closer to the truth
This succinct tipsheet offers advice on conducting investigations of unsolved murders. Suggestions range from interview techniques to coping skills for the emotional weight that comes with immersion in murder stories to motivational techniques.
Tags: murder; justice; crime; victims; investigations; criminal justice system; killings; law enforcement; interviewing; immersion journalism
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Staying Sane: Managing stress and trauma on investigative projects
This tipsheet offers lots of advice about dealing with the stress that often accompanies investigative projects. Topics include emotional injury (and how to avoid it), distancing oneself from the project and how to spot warning signs of emotional trauma. The tipsheet also includes a printout of the Dart Center's online guide to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Tags: stress; emotional distress; grief; writing; human relations; sources
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Tragedies & Journalists
This is a guide published by the Dart Center to help journalists cover catastrophic events better, and to survive them in better shape. Chapters deal with such subjects as interviewing victims and rescue workers, being among the first responders to a terrorist act, and dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Tags: Covering catastrophes; covering disasters; victims of fires; school shootings; covering war; battle fatigue; PTSD; 9/11; Oklahoma City bombing
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Victim Impact and the Media
Flannigan talks about typical responses to trauma and how Media intervention affects grief. She also lists rights a victim should have when dealing with journalists and what reporters can do to be aware of victim issues.
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How to report on psychological trauma and handle the stress
Handouts of a presentation involving reports on psychological trauma that includes introduction to traumatic stress studies, journalism and traumatic stress studies, journalists as trauma survivors.
Tags: trauma; stress; epidemiology; trauma survivor.