2024.Dec.10

EVENTS

Lecture by Jo Healey
“Trauma Reporting: Exploring Sensitive Working Practices for Journalists when Interviewing Victims and Survivors”

The B’AI Global Forum will hold a lecture by Jo Healey entitled “Trauma Reporting: Exploring Sensitive Working Practices for Journalists when Interviewing Victims and Survivors” on February 11, 2025.

◇Date & Venue

・Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 5:00~7:30 pm (JST)
・Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar, No on-demand recording available)
・Language: English ＆ Japanese  (consecutive interpretation available)
・Admission: Free
・How to register: Please register by February 7 using the link below.
https://forms.gle/H7MtWQGyNrtsrqxg6

◇Lecturer

Jo Healey (Journalist)

A former BBC TV journalist, Jo Healey trains media teams worldwide how best to work with victims and survivors. Through BBC Media Action, Jo has trained journalists and broadcasters in Ukraine and Armenia in Trauma Reporting as well was working with journalists reporting from Beirut, Nigeria, Mexico City and Delhi plus NGO story teams, humanitarian workers and migrant women journalists. She’s the author of Trauma Reporting, A Journalist’s Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories and the UNESCO document Safety of Journalists Covering Trauma and Distress, Do No Harm which was translated into seven languages. She’s spoken at the United Nations in Bangkok and the World Health Organisation in Geneva about her work. She’s lectured at Princeton, Boston, Oxford and London Universities, delivering key notes from Ottawa to Oslo.

◇Abstract

Journalists are rarely trained in how to work sensitively and appropriately with vulnerable sources. They effectively, or not, ‘practice’ on the grieving public and hope their skills will improve through trial and error. Often under pressure, journalists can be working daily with people suffering grief, abuse, illness and experiences so extreme, they are making the news. This creates risk. Informed by trauma experts, clinicians, academics, psychologists and most importantly the insight from our interviewees, Trauma Reporting seeks to address this. It provides a framework for good practice which is relatable for journalists. It teaches trauma awareness; it equips them with key skills for working and interviewing sensitively; it encourages them to support each other by sharing their expertise and observations; it teaches self-care when being exposed to the distress of their contributors. It’s key message: do your job, do it well, do no harm.

◇Organizer
Study group on Trauma Reporting, B’AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo

◇Inquiry
B’AI Global Forum Office
bai.global.forum[at]gmail.com（Please change [at] to @）