Choosing a Psychotherapist
A guide for journalists seeking therapy for personal or work-related issues.
A guide for journalists seeking therapy for personal or work-related issues.
As the anniversary of Australia's worst peacetime disaster approaches, expert guidance on how to reflect without retraumatising.
In the wake of a devastating earthquake in Haiti, tools for in-country reporters and local journalists to cover the story.
These tips are offered as suggestions only, to assist in fostering healthier newsrooms and better journalism. They are based on research findings on well-being and resilience and the practical experience of news professionals in the field. Click here for an Arabic translation.
Coverage of trauma and extreme human distress is a core part of journalism. These tips are for managers and editors to help them prepare and support the reporters who do this difficult and important work.
Tips on covering the swine-flu outbreak from a reporter with two decades' experience with health issues ranging from the AIDS epidemic to oyster-related food poisoning.
Most journalists face an inevitability in their careers: They must cover a tragedy and interview people who are pinned against a wall of grief. The wall blocks the victims from seeing that their lives may improve tomorrow. They only see who's in front of them and feel the pain of that moment.
Young journalists will often encounter violence among their first reporting experiences. The effects of catastrophe and cruelty are newsworthy, particularly when victims are numerous, are famous or are symbolic of something that we all relate to and hold dear: a child killed in a schoolroom; a nurse held hostage in a hospital.
Have you ever been first to arrive at the scene of a tragedy? Have you ever sent a reporter or photographer to a disaster scene without thinking through the consequences?
Hight, managing editor of The Oklahoman, runs down how a newsroom can prepare to cover unexpected disasters.