News Media and Trauma

 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.