Photo Story: The Art of Visual Narrative
The presenter will unmask the myth of the documentary photographer’s objectivity and discuss the responsibility and ethics of the photographer. You’ll learn how to create [...]
Leadership Principles for Transformational Journalism
Can God use a writer or publisher to transform society? There is solid evidence that God not only can, but has used writers to initiate [...]
Photographing Crisis
You’ve seen them: Great photographs that in one simple frame capture the meaning of a complex event. Always they depict people living through a tragic [...]
Covering the Refugee Crisis (Respectfully)
Journalists need to interview refugees. Local humanitarian workers know the refugees best. Seems obvious; but it’s harder to partner well than it sounds. How can [...]
Migration–Crisis or Opportunity?
The astonishing growth of the migrant population throughout the world over the last 50 years has been largely ignored by the popular press in the [...]
Where is God in the Crisis?
How does a journalist approach crisis from a Christian perspective? A Christian journalist tries to think like a Christian in regard to the issues raised [...]
Global Trends in Religious Liberty
Persecution throughout the world is escalating, millions of Christians live with gross insecurity, and the concept of religious freedom as a universal human right is [...]
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 [...]
