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Reporting War

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  • Sharon Schmickle

This Dart Society handbook reports that: "Military leaders are beginning to understand that they can boost troops' strength and endurance by responding to combat stress. It’s time for news organizations to do the same." The society is a group of journalists who support sensitive coverage of trauma and care of those covering it. A group of their "seasoned veterans" of war reporting held a meeting in October 2005 where they concurred that journalists who are equipped to care for themselves emotionally can stay in the field longer, deliver more compelling reports, and return home with fewer problems. The group launched a project to help prepare journalists, which culminated in the publication of this handbook.

 

Contents include:

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Stakes
  • Chapter 2: Getting Ready to Go
  • Chapter 3: During the Assignment
  • Chapter 4: Coming Home
  • Chapter 5: For Editors
  • Chapter 6: For Family & Friends

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36

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Dart Center website, August 11 2010.

Comments

Submitted by EugeneOmolo on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 06:55 Permalink

During conflicts and disasters, as journalists, the world (and even ourselves) expects us
to carry out our work like machines and detatch ourselves from the devastation that surrounds us. We are made and encouraged in some journalism schools to shed our humanity for the sake of our calling. But the truth is most uf us cannot.
Kenya has not had that much in terms of mass conflict or disaster. Thus during the violence that broke out following the disputed results of the general election in December 2007, a number of journalists could not cope with the sheer magnitude of the atrocities.
Luckily, for those who covered the violent "hot-spots" and returned traumatised, a support group was formed to cater for post-traumatic stress counselling on a peer-to-peer format as well as from professional counsellors.
I feel that Sharon Schmickle's handbook is of great import and comes at a great time.

Eugene Omolo
Ag.Communications Coordinator
Kenya Young Greens
+254 722 989 044
eugeneomolo@gmail.com
www.kenyayounggreeens.org