Journalists can attend a seminar in Finland.

The University of Helsinki hosts a one-day seminar on crisis, trauma and journalism.

The seminar aims to analyze the coverage and reporting of crises in the media from a perspective of media research and ethics. Topics include how to encounter people in distress, how to shoot visual material of them and how to interview them.

Other topics include how news media get organized during a crisis, the experiences of a field reporter in connection to the newsroom and why some disasters become media spectacles.

The seminar will be held January 27.

For more information, click here: http://www.helsinki.fi/crisisandcommunication/network/seminar_crisistraumajournalism.html

http://ijnet.org/opportunities/journalism-seminar-crisis-reporting-offered