News Media and Trauma
News Media and Trauma," a video featuring a wide range of Australian
journalists recounting experiences and lessons learned covering
traumatic stories, is now available online (below) as well as on DVD.
This video, originally produced by Dart Centre Australasia
with Brett McLeod of the Nine Network in Melbourne, Australia, features
leading Australian reporters, videographers and photographers from
commercial television networks, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,
newspapers and radio, all speaking about the stories that have had the
greatest impact on them, and how they coped — or tried to.
Among them: Jessica Adamson of Adelaide’s Channel 7 reveals the hate
mail that followed her reporting of a baby’s drowning in Adelaide. Renee
Nowytarger of The Australian tells how a local car crash took a greater
personal toll on a photographer than a natural disaster. Peter Harvey
of the Nine Network’s “60 Minutes” recalls the image that upset him as a
cub reporter — and still does.