Opinion | Trauma-informed reporting critical to covering crime

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Opinion: There’s more discussion among journalists and editors about the impact of trauma on family, friends, and colleagues of the victims we write about, writes the Star's public editor donovanvincent

, about surviving residents in the Vaughan condo building who felt abandoned after the mass shooting there in December, got me thinking about how we cover crime as a newspaper.

It’s called trauma-informed reporting and it’s a welcome improvement, I would say. There’s also a lot more talk now about how writing about crime can impact journalists emotionally. Rankin, who has won wide acclaim for leading the Star’s coverage of policing issues, such as racial profiling and carding, was part of a team of reporters who covered the police investigations and trials of murderer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo and his partner in crime, then-wife Karla Homolka.

Tamara Cherry, a trauma researcher and communications consultant based in Regina, who spent 15 years as a crime reporter for the Star, Toronto Sun and CTV News, agrees with this approach.

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