News cycles drenched with violence, war and civil unrest don’t just challenge reporters on scene: far from the front line, an open pipeline of graphic imagery and toxic content floods the screens of...
Bruce Shapiro
Bruce Shapiro is Executive Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism encouraging innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide. An award-winning reporter on human rights, criminal justice and politics, Shapiro is a contributing editor at The Nation and U.S. correspondent for Late Night Live on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National. He is Adjunct Professor and Senior Advisor for Academic Affairs at Columbia, where he teaches journalism ethics.
Bruce is the author of Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America and Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future. His next book, Aftershock Journalism: The Revolution in Reporting on Violence, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. He is a founding board member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and recipient of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Public Advocacy Award for "outstanding and fundamental contributions to the social understanding of trauma."
Events IJF 2023
Recent revelations of sexual abuse by media celebrities have triggered an unprecedented reckoning with workplace harassment on women in journalism. At the same time, sexualized threats from sources, s...
Questioning our assumptions: basic reporting processes, mass tragedy and engagement
This panel will explore community engagement at its most basic level: by examining and critiquing how journalists interview sources and report on the scene. By using insights from research into covera...
