Guide: Media Guidelines: From the “Trauma Vortex” to the “Healing Vortex”

The media can play a leadership role in helping to reduce individual and national traumatic reactivity by understanding the intrinsic connection between violence and trauma. They can begin by assessing the impact of tragedy, violence and terror on their own perceptions and how it affects their reporting of events. The goal is to lessen the results of traumatic reactivity on themselves, the public, and politics.