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The burden of bearing witness is born by journalists around the globe who put themselves on the front line of conflict and tragedy in the course of their work. But what sustains them? How do they deal with trauma?
This is subject of a one-hour documentary produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, aired in June on the weekly program Compass. (Click here to read a transcript of the program.)
ABC reporter Philip Williams — a 2005 Dart Center Ochberg Fellow — takes viewers through his own experience covering the Beslan massacre. Williams visits Vietnam War photographer Tim Page; Sally Sara, who filmed horrific civil conflicts involving children in Africa; and, Kimina Lyall, South-East Asia correspondent, for the Australian, who was in Thailand when the Boxing Day tsunami struck. They reflect on how their work and personal lives were altered by covering these extraordinary events.
After the program aired, Williams, Lyall and Dart Centre Australasia director Cait McMahon hosted a live online forum. The forum drew journalists, camera operators, educators students into wide-ranging discussion.
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