Bruce Shapiro
Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Columbia University
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, headed by Bruce Shapiro, is a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism project that encourages innovative reporting on violence, conflict, and tragedy worldwide.
An award-winning reporter on human rights, criminal justice, and politics, Shapiro is a contributing editor at The Nation and US correspondent for Late Night Live on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National. He is adjunct professor and senior advisor for academic affairs at Columbia, where he teaches journalism ethics. His books include Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America and Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America’s Future.
Shapiro is a recipient of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Public Advocacy Award for “outstanding and fundamental contributions to the social understanding of trauma.” He is a founding board member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.
