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.
Newsrooms have a duty of care to support staff from online violence. Here are five tips to support your journalists.
Where to start For journalists: The Coalition Against Online Violence offers an online violence response hub that offers immediate support for a variety of scenarios [...]
The arrival of social media led to opportunities for women journalists to share their work widely and to connect with new audiences, but it also [...]
In today’s digital world, journalists’ careers often rely on their online presence. But newsrooms must also face the harsh reality that many women journalists endure near constant harassment, abuse and threats online.
As online attacks against journalists continue to threaten press freedom and journalists’ wellbeing, the organizations will collaborate to bolster digital safety in the news media.
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