Trauma Journalism: what is it?

Journalists react almost to every tragic event.

Reporters are among the first to come to the places of accidents, disasters, violence. They photograph, turn video, interview.

Journalists contact people and come to talk to them weeks, months, years after the tragedy. They cover judicial trials or tragic anniversaries. 

Covering trauma situations – street crime, domestic violence, war – recalls moral and professional questions.

• How to cover?
• How to ask the victims and what them ask about?
• How to show the story sincerely and without hurting the audience?
• How to cope with the stress after covering trauma?
• Should journalists express / not express their emotions?

Covering trauma events and the victims, journalists meet the problem that the psychologists, the specialists of rehabilitation, the researchers, and the professors of journalism all over the world try to resolve.

We’d like to join them.