This chapter reviews the role of journalists and news media during disasters, and the challenges they face as professional witnesses. It discusses reporters' risk and resiliency with respect to trauma-related psychopathology. News media can provide improvised mechanisms of communication that can help officials and survivors in the immediate aftermath of disaster. Most journalists receive no preparatory training in covering violence, interviewing victims, or experiencing the potential impact of traumatic stress on their own lives. Journalism educators now are showing growing interest in trauma-related curricula. As professional witnesses of trauma, reporters and staff are directly and indirectly exposed to events that qualify as traumatic stressors. Understanding journalists' symptomatic and attitudinal responses to covering traumatic stories, including risk and protective factors, is a vital area of continued study. Conceptual precision in research and analysis can help us understand more about the role and effects of media portrayal of tragedy on the public.