August 16, 2004
Dart Center names 2004 Fellows
The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma has announced the recipients of the 2004 Dart Ochberg Fellowship. The ten Fellows are:
Ted Czech, reporter, York (Penn.) Daily Record.
Kari René Hall, free-lance photographer.
Ron Haviv, photographer, VII agency.
Caleb Hellerman, producer, CNN.
Amy Herdy, reporter, The Denver Post.
Dana Hull, reporter, The San Jose Mercury News.
David Loyn, correspondent, BBC.
Miles Moffeit, reporter, The Denver Post.
Gary Tippet, senior writer, The (Melbourne, Australia) Age.
Scott Wallace, free-lance writer and photographer.
Reporting responsibly and credibly on violence and traumatic events — on crime, family violence, natural disasters and accidents, war and genocide — is among the greatest challenges facing contemporary journalism. The Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship has been established by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the Dart Center in order to build a cohort of journalists better prepared for this challenge.
Each year, the Dart Center provides six or more expense-paid fellowships to mid-career journalists who want to apply knowledge of emotional trauma to improving coverage of violent events. Fellowships are open to print and broadcast reporters, photographers, editors and producers with at least five years of journalism experience. Fellows attend a two-day seminar where they will learn about the science of trauma, and about the emotional and physical reactions caused by exposure to trauma. Then, they will have access to all events and speakers in the annual conference of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, which will be held Nov. 14-18 in New Orleans, La.
The fellowships were first awarded in 1999. This year’s group brings the total number of fellows to 43. For a list of past Fellows, visit www.dartcenter.org/dartsociety/bios/. The Dart Center is a global network of journalists, journalism educators and health professionals dedicated to improving media overage of trauma, conflict and tragedy. The Center also addresses the consequences of such coverage for those working in journalism. For more information about the Dart Center, which is based at the University of Washington Department of Communication, visit www.dartcenter.org.
2004 Dart Ochberg Fellows:
Ted Czech covers fires, accidents, homicides and other traumatic subjects as a night police/general assignment reporter for the York (Penn.) Daily Record. He has also explored the study of how journalists are affected by the trauma they cover. Czech joined the Daily Record in May 2004, after the paper was purchased by its cross-town rival (and JOA partner) The York Dispatch, where Czech had been a reporter since 1999.
Kari René Hall, a free-lance photographer, has photographed car accidents, plane crashes, shooting scenes, murder trials, drowning, funerals, grieving families and many other traumatic stories during more than two decades as a journalist. A Los Angeles Times staff photographer for 18 years, her 1992 book Beyond the Killing Fields, was a gripping account of the lives of refugees inside Site 2 on the Thai-Cambodia border.
Ron Haviv, a photographer for the VII agency (of which he is a co-founder), has covered conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean, crisis in Africa, the Gulf War, fighting in Russia, conflict in the Balkans, the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the war in Afghanistan and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. His work has been published in magazines throughout the world, including Stern, Paris Match, Newsweek, and the New York Times Magazine. He has published two books: Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, and Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul.
Caleb Hellerman is a producer for CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. He has reported extensively on mental health and trauma issues, including suicide and experimental drug treatments for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. From 1998 to 2003, he was a writer for ABC/Good Morning America, where he covered the September 11 attacks, the D.C.-area sniper, and the Columbia Shuttle disaster, among other stories.
Amy Herdy, an investigative reporter for the The Denver Post, spent more than a year reporting about sexual assault and domestic abuse at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., for the series “Betrayal in the Ranks,” which was a finalist for the 2004 Dart Award. She joined the Post in 2002, after six years at the St. Petersburg Times.
Dana Hull, a metro reporter for The San Jose Mercury News since 1999, has reported on the California energy crisis, earthquakes, the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle, forest fires, sexual abuse by Catholic priests and Retired Gen. Wesley Clark’s campaign for the presidency. From late May to mid July 2003, she reported from Baghdad for Knight Ridder news services. Before joining the Mercury News, Hull was a reporter at the Washington Post.
Miles Moffeit, an investigative reporter for The Denver Post, spent more than a year reporting about sexual assault and domestic abuse at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., for the series “Betrayal in the Ranks,” which was a finalist for the 2004 Dart Award. More recently, he has covered the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Moffeit joined the Post in 2002, after six years with The Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Scott Wallace is a freelance writer, photographer and producer and is a contributing editor to the National Geographic Adventure Magazine. Wallace has interviewed many victims of political violence, beginning more than two decades ago with relatives of death squad victims in El Salvador. As both a print and broadcast journalist, his stories have included in-depth reports on immigration, arson, the war on drugs, environmental issues, international organized crime and indigenous affairs. His story “Hidden Tribes of the Amazon” appeared in the August 2003 issue of National Geographic. He has recently reported and photographed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As in past years, the Dart Center has selected an international Fellow from the BBC. This year’s selection is David Loyn, developing world correspondent for the network. Loyn joined the BBC as a TV News Reporter in 1987. Since then, he has also been a political correspondent, South Asia correspondent and defense correspondent, among other roles. He reported the first free elections in Poland, the fall of Berlin Wall and the Romanian Revolution, as well as spending long periods as acting Moscow correspondent. He reported frequently from Kashmir, and Sri Lanka, and followed the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan. He spent more than two months in Afghanistan after 9/11, and two months in Iraq during the war in 2003.
For the first time, the Dart Center has selected an Australian Fellow, Gary Tippet, a senior writer for The Age newspaper of Melbourne. Tippet has been a journalist since 1972, when he joined the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial immediately after high school. He remained at the Sun (apart from a short period at the Northern Territory News in 1974) until 1988. In 1993, after a stint as press secretary with the State government of Victoria, Tippet joined the Sunday Age, moving to the Age when the two papers merged in 1998. Much of his writing has focused on trauma and its victims. In 1997, Tippet won Australia’s most prestigious journalism award, the Walkley, for an account of an abused child who, 30 years later, returned to kill his molester with an axe.
