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CANADIAN JOURNALISM FORUM ON VIOLENCE AND TRAUMA
Journalism in a Violent World
This event will bring together journalists, health care professionals, media analysts and journalism educators from across the country, from many parts of the United States and from Britain. Advance registration closes 9 January 2008 (Photo Canadian Journalism Forum/Seinforma Canada)
This awareness comes at a time when it has never been a more dangerous time to be a journalist. The International News Safety Institute keeps a tally: 171 journalists and media staff had been killed worldwide in 2007, as of November 28.
This awareness comes at a time when it has never been a more dangerous time to be a journalist. The International News Safety Institute keeps a tally: 171 journalists and media staff had been killed worldwide in 2007, as of November 28.
The Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence & Trauma will keep a Canadian spotlight on these issues, in all their complexity. The Forum will provide workshops and facilitate discussions across the country, working with employers, unions, other journalistic organizations, health professionals and journalism educators across the country, monitoring and importing ideas, innovations and new practices pioneered elsewhere.
It will foster research, explore a range of ethical issues linked with covering traumatic events and to help individual Canadian journalists facing difficulties find the help they need and appreciate that they are not alone.
The Forum is allied with the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, the International News Safety Institute and the Canadian Association of Journalists. It is supported by the Graduate Program in Journalism at The University of Western Ontario.
Participants will include:
Ian Stewart, former West African Bureau Chief, Associated Press
Dr. Anthony Feinstein, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Chris Cramer, former head of CNN International
Giselle Portenier, award-winning documentary filmmaker
Brian Kelly, CBC News cameraman
Kathleen Kenna, former correspondent, Toronto Star
Kevin Newman, Anchor, Global National
Program
Saturday, February 9, 2008
8:00 am - Registration and Coffee (The Great Hall)
9:00 am - Keynote: Ian Stewart
Former West Africa Bureau Chief, Associated Press; PhD Candidate, University of Michigan; shot by a child soldier in Sierra Leone.
9:30 am - War’s Other Casualties
Moderator: John Owen, founding Executive Producer, News Xchange and Visiting Professor, City University, London (UK).
Panellists:
* Dr. Anthony Feinstein, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.
* Brian Kelly, CBC Television News cameraman.
* Ian Stewart
11:30 am - The Cost of Bearing Witness
Moderator: John Owen
Panellists:
* Giselle Portenier, documentary filmmaker.
* Kathleen Kenna, former correspondent, Toronto Star.
* Sgt. Debbie Bodkin, Waterloo Regional Police Service.
1:00 pm - Informal Sandwich Lunch (The Great Hall)
2:00 pm - Any Time Any Place, It Could Happen To You
Moderator: Kevin Newman, Anchor and Executive Editor, Global National
Panellists:
* Chris Cramer, former head of CNN International and President, International News Safety Institute, Brussels.
* Rodney Pinder, Director, International News Safety Institute, Brussels.
* Stephanie Levitz, Reporter/Editor, The Canadian Press.
3:40 pm - Best Practice: Dealing with people in traumatic stress
Moderator: Kevin Newman
Panellists:
* Dr. Alan Leschied, educational psychologist, University of Western Ontario.
* Karen Pierre, social worker, Trauma Program, London Health Sciences Centre.
* Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, University of Washington.
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - RECEPTION (THE GREAT HALL)
Words of welcome from University President, Dr. Paul Davenport, and Dean of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Dr. Thomas Carmichael.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
9:00 am - Keynote: Dr. Anthony Feinstein, University of Toronto
"The Emotional Health of Journalists"
9:35 am - Building Awareness: the Impact of Trauma on Others
Moderator: Dr. Nick Dyer-Witheford, Associate Dean, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario.
Presenters:
* Dr. Elana Newman, Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa.
"The Impact of Mass Disaster Coverage on the Public''
* Linda Kay, Associate Professor of Journalism, Concordia University.
"Help or Harm? The Impact of Press Coverage on a Community Experiencing Trauma"
* Sara B. Tiegreen, Doctoral Student in Clinical Psychology, University of Tulsa.
" Fear and Perceptions of Risk"
Responder:
* Rodney Pinder, Director, International News Safety Institute, Brussels
11:15 am - REsistance & Recovery: What Can Journalists and Health Professionals Do?
Moderator: Keith Tomasek, Lecturer, Graduate Program in Journalism, The University of Western Ontario.
Presenters:
* Dr. Patrice Keats, Assistant Professor and Program Co-ordinator of Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University.
"Secondary Traumatization in First-Responders: A Critical Ethnographic Study of Photojournalists and Journalists."
* Dr. Doug Underwood, Department of Communication, University of Washington.
"Trauma, Journalism, and Fiction: An Historical-Conceptual Analysis of the Impact of Traumatic Experiences in the Lives ofFamous Journalist-Literary Figures."
* Robert Frank, Freelance Journalist & National Board Member, Canadian Association of Journalists; and Dr. Ross Perigoe, Professor of Journalism, Concordia University.
"Informed Mutual Support: Options on Violence and Trauma from the Perspective of the Journalist."
* Dr. Charles Hays, School of Journalism, University of Thompson Rivers.
"Walking Mean Streets: Journalists and Adaption."
Responder:
* George Hoff, Manager, CBC Parliamentary Bureau; Co-Chair, Safety & Security Committee, North American Broadcasters Association; Dart Centre Ochberg Fellow, 2007.
1:00 pm - INFORMAL SANDWICH LUNCH (THE GREAT HALL)
2:00 pm - How Does Traumatization of Journalists Affect Coverage?
Moderator: Paul Benedetti, Lecturer, Graduate Program in Journalism, The University of Western Ontario.
Presenters:
* Dr. Elana Newman, Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa.
"Occupational Health and Journalists."
* Dr. Carrie A. Rentschler, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University.
"From Danger to Trauma: Affective Labour and the Discourse of Journalistics Witnessing."
Responders:
* TBA
3:45 pm - What Do We Tell the Next Generation?
Moderator: Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, University of Washington.
Presenters:
* Dr. Max Grubb, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Kent State University (co-author with Dr. Gretchen Dworznik). "Preparing for the Worst: Making A Case for Trauma Training in the Journalism Classroom."
* Linda Kay, Associate Professor, Department of Journalism, Concordia University.
"Stimulation through Simulation."
* Dr. Robin Andersen, Communication and Media Studies and Director of peace and Justice Studies, Fordham University.
"Journalistic Ethics and Reporting Violence and Suffering."
* Jad Melki, Research Director, International Center for Media and the Public Agenda, University of Maryland. "Trauma Education in Journalism Schools: Where Do We Stand?"
Responders:
* Dr. Stephen J. Ward, Director, School of Journalism, and Associate Professor, Journalism Ethics, University of British Columbia.
* Arnold Amber, President, Communications Workers of America.
5:30 pm - CONFERENCE CLOSE
For further information visit http://journalismforum.fims.uwo.ca/default.aspx
By Canadian Journalism Forum/ Seinforma Canada
London, Ontario.- Violence and emotional trauma are part of the daily currency of journalism. In situations as diverse as war, traffic accidents, murder trials and child abuse, news people deal with victims, perpetrators and innocent bystanders. Sometimes, they also have to deal with the effects on themselves.
Time was when newsroom culture held that journalists, as observers rather than participants, should be immune to the toll of this kind of immersion. Those who knew they weren’t often kept it to themselves - for fear of jeopardizing their standing in the newsroom or even their careers.
Today, thoughtful journalists, educators, employers and union representatives are working to change that aspect of traditional newsroom culture. They recognize that journalists, like police officers, fire fighters, paramedics and many more, sometimes need help in dealing with emotional distress. And there’s a growing recognition that whatever affects individuals’ emotional lives is likely, in some circumstances, to affect their perceptions and their reporting, no matter how hard they strive to prevent it.
Journalists have no shortage of ethical issues to confront in reporting on victims, violence and trauma. Thoughtful editors, producers, reporters and photographers seek to balance the public’s need for accurate, unflinching reporting against the possibility of inflicting harm.
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