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Crisis Reporting: Deeper, broader, better
ICFJ administered a five-week online course on crisis reporting. The course took place from April 15 to May 20, 2008 and explored various topics, including natural disasters, humanitarian interventions and health crises.
The course covered:
- Humanizing and personalizing crisis stories - found ways to tells stories through the eyes of individuals affected
- Sourcing - examined a crisis from all possible angles and attempted to understand motives and fears
- Examining emotional involvement and biases - learned how to avoid manipulation by one side or the other
- Avoiding stereotypes and generalizations - including how choice of language affects perception
About the Instructor:
Tala Dowlatshahi is the US Representative of Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans Frontieres)-the Paris-based media watchdog organization. She's a journalist who has worked with Amnesty International in London, The International Rescue Committee, and various other UN agencies in New York and Geneva. She has chronicled stories in Afghanistan, Colombia, Iran, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Turkey and Eastern Europe. She has also been featured on CNN International, Voice of America, Reuters, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Hoy Newspaper, Globo Television-Brazil, Counter-Spin-WBAI/Pacifica Radio New York, Media-Watch-Wisconsin Radio, WNUR-Chicago Radio, Radio America-Washington DC, KGO Radio for ABC News- San Francisco, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Disaster News Network, and in various humanitarian news programmes. She is an Associate member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the International Peace Academy, and the Association for European Journalists.
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