This month, API is partnering with the International Women’s Media Foundation to share election safety tips from their Newsroom Safety Across America initiative. IWMF and […]
Sustainability cannot simply focus on finances. If we want to do better journalism, sustainability must also focus on building community, inside and outside of the newsroom.
This is a column on how to measure well-being for yourself and your organization. By the end, you’ll have a clear direction and quantitative ways to chart a healthy path forward for your journalists.
Experts define moral injury as the suffering that comes from witnessing, perpetrating or failing to prevent events that violate one’s own deeply held moral beliefs and values. It is not classified as a mental illness, but it can lead to depression, substance abuse or burnout, which is one reason news managers need to understand the phenomenon of moral injury — and ways to address it or head it off.
For many newsrooms, changing the systems that protect unhealthy culture could be a few sustained decisions away from reality.
With all of the demands on a newsroom, how do you make time to build new habits in pursuit of larger goals?
You’ve made it through the first week of prioritizing well-being! What activities made a positive impact on your day? Were there any that were difficult to accomplish?
The cohort shares its learnings with newsrooms working to identify gaps and opportunities to broaden sourcing and find ways to better reflect the deep diversity of communities in their coverage.
Why a 20-day, 20-action challenge? Because prioritizing the well-being of ourselves, our journalists, and by relation, our organizations takes deliberate steps toward healthy habits and self-awareness.