Secondary Trauma: When Stories Hurt
Reporters, journalists, and photographers all help to share the world’s most pressing news. But while covering the stories of disasters, atrocities, and suffering, we expose [...]
Stay Safe in a Dangerous Situation Without an Expensive Security Apparatus
Journalists are often focused on the story and can easily fail to consider questions of security. In this session you will learn how to prepare [...]
If it Bleeds, It Leads–Or is There a Better Way?
Sure, you cover the incidents of terrorism, atrocities of war, persecution, and the like. But, you may actually get better readership when you produce a [...]
Exploding the Myths–the Journalist in the Fight Against Human Trafficking
Human trafficking and modern day slavery is a worldwide crisis that has impacted virtually every country, from the poorest to the wealthiest. Here is an [...]
Covering Disasters: Rethinking Large-scale Trauma
Reporting about disaster has never been more challenging. This workshop shares evidence-based findings on resilience before, during, and after disaster and how religious faith is [...]
A Voice for the Suffering Church
In these days of shifting definitions, divergent statistics, complex geo-politics, competing interests, contested narratives and suffocating propaganda, gathering reliable information can be exceedingly difficult. Yet [...]
The Future of Migration: Prepare for Both the Expected and the Unexpected
Here is an exploration of how global politics, the civil war within Islam, water crises, global warming, and volcanoes may be expected to continue to [...]
Coaching Through Crisis
Guiding and caring for “War Zone” reporters (whether actual war or other crisis). How to come alongside reporters, guide the reporting process, maintain perspective, and [...]
Reporting on Ethnic Conflicts
Reporting on conflicts between nations and ethnic groups: How to provide accurate, fair information in an unbiased manner (recognizing that no one can be completely [...]
How to Leverage Scarcity
You don’t have the finances and equipment of the major publishing and broadcasting firms. But, you can leverage your own resources to produce quality work [...]
Moving Beyond the Who, What, When, Where, and Why in Reporting
Covering corruption (which often accompanies crisis), human tragedy, and redemptive stories. Everyone is covering the crisis. Discover how to think through what you can bring [...]
Reporting Under Pressure
The need to meet deadlines, offer colorful accounts, and provide the best, most compelling angle can place writers, photographers, and editors under pressure when reporting [...]
Reporting on Natural Disaster
How to report on natural disasters, dealing with chaos, and getting the story without getting in the way. How to find reliable sources, craft the [...]
Harnessing Social Media and Video
Events are moving fast in the midst of crisis and when it’s important to get information out immediately the writer may have to switch to [...]
Understanding the Middle East
An analyst and a journalist, both authors of books on the crisis in the Middle East, discuss the situation from the perspective of geopolitics and [...]
