WELL-BEING IN NEWS

Join us for “Taking Care In News,” a series of industry discussions on mental health and well-being for news professionals featuring leaders making important changes in their own workplaces and newsrooms.

FREE, via Zoom. Register at journalismforum.ca/events

Brought to you by the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), Carleton University's School of Journalism and the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence & Trauma.

Moral Courage: 19 Profiles of Investigative Journalists, released this week, explores the motivation and resilience of journalists who’ve suffered imprisonment, physical attacks and death threats at the hands of criminals and oppressive regimes.

It’s vital we uncover just how frequently our people suffer mental injuries from our work — for our own awareness and to ensure our news companies pay attention, examine the risks, and take appropriate action to better protect people who routinely cover trauma and human suffering.

Dean Yates has been to hell and back. Line in the Sand is a raw, deeply personal account of life-threatening PTSD injury suffered as a journalist with Reuters, his recovery, and an exploration of how the news industry deals with mental injury on the job.

A summit of 50 news industry leaders offer recommendations and practical solutions, here in the Taking Care Roundtable - What We Heard Report

We surveyed newsrooms in the US, UK and Canada to ask how they are protecting journalists from their steady diet of death and trauma

Newsroom ‘mental health first aid’ — We aren’t expected to provide treatment; rather, our role is to recognize when there is a problem and help the person in decline or crisis.

Newsrooms seeking ‘practical steps’ to improve mental health got an earful - and some good ideas - this week courtesy of The Journalist’s Resource.

Journalist Colin Butler’s PTSD has been formally ruled a workplace ‘injury’ from years covering murders, violence and trauma - an he hopes newsrooms take note.

How psychological scars covering the Nova Scotia mass shooting led photojournalist @DBCalabrese to healing - and now spearheading “peer support” for other freelancers