Dart Awards event in NYC 27 April

One of the winners of 2011 Dart Awards. Photo: Sonya Hebert / Dallas Morning News: Sgt. 1st Class Mario Sierra embraces his wife and sister, knowing he may have to deploy again as soon as next May. The impact of multiple deployments on military families was the focus of The Dallas Morning News' Dart Award-winning entry. On Wednesday, April 27, the Dart Center invites you to join them in celebrating the winners of the 2011 Dart Awards and engaging in a conversation on journalism that is both hard-hitting and humane: "Crusading Against Silence: High-Impact Reporting on Invisible Victims." The full text and audio of all the 2011 Dart Award-winning pieces can now be read on the website  http://dartcenter.org/programs-info-type/dart-award-winner. PANELISTS Kevin Cullen, columnist, Boston Globe Sonya N. Hebert, photographer, The Dallas Morning News Kristen Lombardi, reporter, Center for Public Integrity T. Christian Miller, reporter, ProPublica Daniel Zwerdling, correspondent, NPR Bruce Shapiro, executive director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (moderator) EVENT DETAILS Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Reception begins at 5:30 p.m. Event begins at 6:00 p.m. Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism World Room, 3rd Floor New York, NY This year's winners wrote in-depth investigations which exposed how important institutions — schools, universities and the military — betray the very people they are supposed to protect: victims of teenage bullying and campus rape, brain-injured soldiers and families left behind by war. Libya Conflict: Remembering Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros; Photographer and 2010 Dart Center Ochberg fellow Teru Kuwayama reflects on the deaths of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros as they covered the conflict in Libya. In this era of Facebook and Twitter, news of their deaths sped across a social network of professional communicators. At a panel discussion held on March 31, the four New York Times foreign correspondents who were detained in Libya last month spoke about the conditions of their captivity and their continued commitment to covering dangerous conflicts. Watch a complete video recording of the event on our blog. Cecilia Ballí on Covering Cruelty; John Pope on the Ethics of Interviewing Patients 2010 Dart Ochberg fellow Cecilia Ballí is the author of "Ghost Town,” a piece about the drug war and violence in Mexico's Ciudad Mier, originally published in Texas Monthly. We've reprinted her exemplary reporting on our site and also had Ballí answer some questions about how her work as a cultural anthropoligist shapes her approach to journalism and emotional storytelling. John Pope, a staff writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, offers suggestions on how mental health professionals and journalists can ethically collaborate in the coverage of people who have experienced trauma. Upcoming Events in the U.S. and Europe April 26 in London: A discussion on what photojournalists need to know when covering traumatic assignments. April 27 in New York City: The ceremony and panel for the 2011 Dart Award winners. May 13 in Washington, D.C.: A workshop for news managers responsible for Mideast and Japan coverage. The Dart Center is a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. All content © Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York