Culture & Inclusion

This guide will help you track sources in your journalism. API assembled a cohort of newsrooms in 2023 to track the diversity of people quoted [...]

If you want a truly accurate and helpful public square, one capable of helping a pluralistic democratic republic survive, you have to think about the well-being of the people who make up the press.

This week’s mental health reset asks you to interrogate how your contributions create a psychologically safe workplace.

This guide is an effort to point to and organize resources in ways that can be helpful to journalists looking to put words to what they’re feeling and manage those stresses, as well as resources for managers and first-person accounts from peers.

Creativity is good for the group, and today, I want to encourage even tired, uninspired news leaders to cut through the monotony of the status quo and infuse a level of creativity into their daily flow.  

Connection has the power to counterbalance adversity. And this adversity, difficulty or distress can be self-inflicted as often as it can be unavoidable by outside factors.

This week’s Mental Health Reset challenge will require you to acknowledge your strengths as a journalist and ask you to turn those strengths in on yourself and your teams.  

It has been a very fast year. Instead of grinding at half-strength, take these next five Mondays of July to work through some leadership challenges that will directly and positively impact your mental health, and by proxy, the health and well-being of your team.

Ragland offers a “starter pack” for journalists to begin addressing burnout, although she notes that it’ll be difficult to level up until news organizations align in their vision and strategy to serve and support the whole journalist and not just the work of that journalist. 

Online violence is often only considered a digital safety issue, but the impact of online abuse on journalists’ mental health has serious consequences for their lives, work and press freedom as a whole.