{"id":11206,"date":"2015-03-11T10:55:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yorkblog.com\/ydrinsider\/?p=11206"},"modified":"2015-03-11T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T14:55:30","slug":"trauma-experts-help-ydr-digital-first-media-kick-off-peer-support-program-for-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/ydrinsider\/trauma-experts-help-ydr-digital-first-media-kick-off-peer-support-program-for-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Trauma experts help YDR, Digital First Media kick off peer support program for journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"peersupportforblogpost\"<\/a>Thursday is a big day for us.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll be hosting several colleagues from Digital First Media\u2019s Pennsylvania newsrooms, as well as a few of our own YDR staffers, to kick off our trauma journalism peer-support program.<\/p>\n

The program, and this day, started a couple years ago when photojournalist Jason Plotkin and I started wondering how we could better prepare journalists, especially young ones, for some of the toughest assignments they\u2019ll face — photographing a\u00a0mother whose child died in an accident, talking to\u00a0a family who lost everything in a fire, seeing the pain on someone\u2019s face when a reporter or photographer approaches at the most difficult of moments.<\/p>\n

When a survivor wants to tell her story, our staffers should know how best to work with someone who has been through trauma; those interviews are unlike any others. And when a journalist comes back to the newsroom carrying the emotion of the assignment — guilt, fear, anger, sadness — his colleagues should know how to help him.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the peer-support program is about. It was created, with help and guidance from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma<\/a>, by a handful of DFM journalists — Shahid Abdul-Karim and Rich Scinto of the New Haven (Conn.) Register<\/a>; John Berry, then of the Register-Citizen<\/a> in Torrington, Conn. and now of The Trentonian<\/a>; Caitlin Morris, then of The Saratogian<\/a>; Kate Penn of the YDR<\/a>; Katy Petiford of The (Hanover) Evening Sun<\/a>; and me.<\/p>\n

We created guidelines that any newsroom can use to learn more about how coverage of trauma and conflict can affect journalists, and how they can help each other and themselves; as well as best practices for reporting with knowledge and respect about tragedy and trauma survivors. Ultimately, we envision every newsroom on DFM\u2019s East Coast will have at least one peer supporter, and beyond that, a network of them at other organizations who are ready when called on.<\/p>\n

On Thursday in our newsroom, we\u2019ll learn from experts in this field: Lisa Millar of the Australian Broadcasting Company, whose organization is one of the first to have a peer-support program (see video); Elana Newman, research director for the Dart Center; and York County\u2019s own Kathy Jansen, a trauma specialist at York Hospital and head of the county\u2019s Critical Incident Stress Management team.<\/p>\n

Our peer-support effort is not to say that every journalist has to be affected, or be affected in the same way. Some take on the most harrowing assignments and are OK. That\u2019s fine. For others, the story or the interaction linger, and can cause distress — and that has to be fine, too, if we are to be not only better journalists, but better people.<\/p>\n

A reporter who covers a fatal accident won\u2019t be required to come back to the newsroom and sit down with a peer-supporter. That would be silly. But that reporter will know she can <\/i>if she needs to, and that a peer-supporter will have the tools and the language to help at a crucial time. We think that\u2019s vital.<\/p>\n

Related posts and stories:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Montgomery County shooting: Extraordinary story calls for focus on trauma journalism <\/a><\/p>\n

Peer support initiative scores an honorable mention in E & P\u2019s 10 Newsrooms that do it Right Competition <\/a><\/p>\n

A top York Daily Record\/York Newspaper Co.\u2019s goal in 2015: \u2018Be a great workplace\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Surely this is York County at its best. And worst<\/a><\/p>\n

YDR welcomes a new class of journalists, leaders <\/a><\/p>\n

Brain science and journalism<\/a>:\u00a0A trauma survivor’s memory is still forming when she might be giving an interview. What does that mean for those asking the questions?<\/p>\n

On improving our coverage of trauma victims \u2014 and taking care of the journalists who tell those stories<\/a><\/p>\n

Dart Center resources for journalists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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