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By Jenny Manrique Cortes on July 26, 2010
Por: Judith Torrea* Ciudad Juárez, México Son las 11:50 de la noche: He acudido a reportar diez crímenes en menos de seis horas. En todo el día murieron quince personas. En la mayoría de los casos, he llegado antes que las fuerzas del orden a pesar de que para hacerlo he escuchado las claves del [...]
Posted in En español, Getting Personal, Journalists as Human Beings, Reporting War, Self-care, Uncategorized
By Jenny Manrique Cortes on July 12, 2010
Ir en Contravía le ha costado a mi colega Hollman Morris, su tranquilidad. Hace tiempo que este periodista colombiano comenzó a mostrar la cara de ese otro país que pocos quieren ver, a través de su programa de televisión “Contravía” financiado por Open Society. Obnubilada con los logros del gobierno actual, la sociedad colombiana ha [...]
Posted in En español, Getting Personal, Journalists as Human Beings, Reporting War, Uncategorized
By Jenny Manrique Cortes on May 4, 2010
Dart Society me ha regalado un valioso espacio para escribir sobre el ejercicio periodístico en Latinoamérica y en particular en mi país Colombia. Como Ochberg Fellow 2006 y la primera latina a quien se le otorgó tan afortunado reconocimiento, me siento honrada de abrir este blog en español que espero convoque a reporteros de habla [...]
Posted in En español, Getting Personal | Tagged cobertura, Colombia, electoral, Jenny, Manrique, trauma
By The Dart Society on April 28, 2010
At our Invictus gathering last November at Moni Basu’s house in Atlanta, I met the photojournalist Rich Addicks. Like Moni, he was a former Atlanta Journal-Constitution staffer who had spent his career covering some of the toughest stories of our times. We were paired together to talk about work that had stuck with us, and [...]
Posted in Featured Fellows, Getting Personal, Journalists as Human Beings, Kim Komenich, News About Us, Uncategorized
By Jody Santos on March 22, 2010
When I thought about writing a blog entry about my recent trip to South Africa, the usual topics came to mind – the detachment I felt walking through an AIDS clinic in the mountains of Pomeroy, the lump that formed in my throat when a little girl at a dusty overcrowded school outside of Durban [...]
Posted in Getting Personal, Self-care
By Gina Barton on March 15, 2010
Kris’ voice was almost panicked. “Did you hear about Darryl?” “No,” I answered, confused and immediately worried. My first thought was that he had been in a car accident, this promising young man with the troubled past we had gotten to know so well. I had written his story. Kris had taken the photos. “He’s [...]
Posted in Getting Personal, Three Acts
By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves on February 15, 2010
Jody Santos’ new book, “Daring to Feel,” bolsters Dart journalists’ instincts to delve deeply into social problems and report from the heart. Connections formed with subjects, and informed by the Dart lessons on understanding emotional injury, have led to journalism that is inspired and inspires. I remember the first directives to journalists to “get a [...]
Posted in Covering Catastrophe, Getting Personal
By Moni Basu on January 28, 2010
2008 Fellow Moni Basu of CNN Wires sent this link today about a story she wrote while reporting in La Gonave, one of the poorest places in Haiti. “I have to tell you my heart is breaking here in Haiti,” she wrote. More of her reports from Haiti are here. Get the Flash Player to see [...]
Posted in Covering Catastrophe, Getting Personal, Haiti Earthquake
By Huascar Robles on January 27, 2010
One of the main objectives of my trekking down to Haiti was to observe and learn from experienced journalists and photojournalists. I wanted to see how they reported under pressure and coped with the emotional distress they might face after the dust settles. By chance I ran into Marco Di Lauro, a well-known photographer who [...]
Posted in Covering Catastrophe, Getting Personal, Haiti Earthquake, Reporting War
By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves on January 25, 2010
Lisa Millar, a 2007 fellow who is a North America correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, reported on the Haitian earthquakes last week. She wrote, “I did Haiti ‘lite,’ as I say — I was safe on a warship at night and the only dead bodies I saw were under sheets. Any injured children were [...]
Posted in Covering Catastrophe, Getting Personal, Haiti Earthquake
