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Exploring the Attitudes of Journalism Educators to Teach Trauma-Informed Literacy: An Analysis of a Global Survey
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, volume 78, issue 2 (2023), pp. 214-232
"Literature notes that most journalists will witness trauma and human suffering during the course of their careers, yet journalism education is lagging behind in preparing students to cope with the effects of exposure to traumatic events. This paper examines the attitudes of journalism educators/tra
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Supporting Digital Job Satisfaction in Online Media Unions' Contracts
"Bringing together critical political economy of media and industrial relations research, the chapter argues that the collective bargaining agreement is a communicative means through which digital newsworker unions express worker resistance to labor issues." (Abstract)
“I Definitely Would Appreciate a Little More Validation”: Toward an Ethics of Care in College Newsrooms and Journalism Education
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, volume 78, issue 2 (2023), pp. 142–164
"Drawing on interviews with 10 U.S. student journalists, we introduce an ethics-of-care approach for trauma-informed journalism pedagogy. We express grave concern for mental health in journalism programs, offering an empirical snapshot of students’ traumas and coping strategies. We confirm that st
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Post-traumatic Mental and Physical Consequences of Frontline Reporting in the MENA Region
Open Public Health Journal, volume 15 (2023), 12 pp.
"Background: A current need in journalistic frontline work is to understand the potential psychological and physical traumatic consequences that may result from on-duty appointments. Journalists are active in frontline zones to report on conflicts, crises, and natural disasters. In the Middle East a
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“When can I get angry?” Journalists’ coping strategies and emotional management in hostile situations
Journalism, volume 25, issue 10 (2023), pp. 2099-2116
"Research shows that emotional management is often part of journalists’ decision-making in the news creation process and when dealing with attacks, insults, or harassment, which we describe by the umbrella term hostility. Some emotional management strategies can lead journalists to self-censorship
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Safer Vox Pops and Door Knocking
"This chapter overviews the harmful nature of these reporting practices and provides alternative reporting strategies and solutions that can improve reporters’ safety and increase their happiness in the profession." (Abstract)
Self-Employment in the News Industry
"This chapter highlights the position of freelance or self-employed journalists in the news sector from the pessimistic observation that news organizations tend to push journalists into a freelance status to cope with decreasing revenues and are inspired by neoliberal thoughts." (Abstract)
Embedding Trauma Literacy Into Curriculum: An Examination of the Attitudes of Australian and New Zealand Journalism Educators
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, volume 78, issue 2 (2023), pp. 112-126
"Australia and New Zealand have reputations as countries prone to catastrophic and frequent natural and man-made disasters. Therefore, it is no surprise that antipodean academics want trauma-informed education for their journalism students. This study presents the Australian-New Zealand results of a
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The Joy in Journalism
"This chapter argues that we should take seriously the possibility that particularly morally entangled forms of journalism, such as conflict and investigative reporting, might be deeply emotionally fulfilling." (Abstract)
How Newsroom Social Media Policies Can Improve Journalists' Well-Being
"This chapter draws on a discourse analysis of newsroom social media policies, and in-depth interviews with journalists focused on their reactions to the social media policies within the newsrooms in which they have worked, and their recommendations for how those policies should be improved." (Abstr
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Establishing Individual, Organizational and Collective Practices for Journalists' Well-Being through Disconnection
"This chapter explores broader use and negotiation of online connection and disconnection within news organizations and professional bodies. It argues that improving the happiness of journalists means centering methods of care in the profession, within individual practice and organizational editoria
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Teaching Emotional Intelligence for Enhancing Resilience in Journalism
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, volume 78, issue 2 (2023), pp. 127–141
"The article outlines an evidence-informed approach for enhancing resilience, one of the key personal resources in labor, and explores the viability of this training for increasing journalists’ ability to manage everyday work-related stressors. The suggested pedagogy is in the form of a microinter
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Psychological and Physical Lived Experiences of Journalists Covering Terrorism in Kenya
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, volume 78, issue 2 (2023), pp. 251-266
"This research is based on 28 in-depth interviews with Kenya-based journalists who report terrorism. The objective of the research was to recount their lived experiences. The theme of safety of journalists comprised psychological and physical safety of the newspeople, and there were various ways in
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Happiness in Journalism
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xi, 204 pp.
"This book examines how journalism can overcome harmful institutional issues such as work-related trauma and precarity, focusing specifically on questions of what happiness in journalism means, and how one can be successful and happy on the job. Acknowledging profound variations across people, genre
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Cognitive Dissonance in Journalistic Trauma
"The chapter proposes solutions for unhealthy coping techniques, such as ignoring, only positive focus, and diminishing negatives, and modifying only the dissonance-inducing behavior are not long-term solutions for most individuals." (Abstract)
Reporting Trauma: Conflict Journalists’ Exposure to Potentially Traumatizing Events, Short- and Long-Term Consequences, and Coping Behavior
Journalism Studies, volume 24, issue 11 (2023), pp. 1398-1417
"Due to the nature of their jobs, journalists reporting from theaters of war, destruction, and violence are frequently exposed to potentially traumatizing experience. This study explores how journalists go about trauma exposure, how they deal with its emotional fallout, and what support they get in
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Safety of Journalists Covering Trauma and Distress: ‘Do no Harm’
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 16 pp.
"• Pressure has intensified on journalists to cover people’s trauma and distress and deliver emotionally-driven content to multiple platforms.
• Impact on survivors: An ongoing lack of trauma-aware training for journalists can lead to inept or ill-informed handling of survivors, some say this
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Journalism and Mental Health: Ugandan Journalists’ Perspectives
In: COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication
Leeds: Emerald Publishing (2022), pp. 147-162
"In the midst of a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, journalists play an important role of sharing information of consequence with the public. As first responders to precarious events, they work in close proximity to the threat they are reporting on yet at the same time struggle with
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Trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress disorder among regional journalists in Pakistan
Journalism, volume 23, issue 2 (2022), pp. 391-408
"This study sought to examine work-related exposure to trauma and predictors of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms among regional journalists in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, a conflict-ridden area in northwest Pakistan. We recruited 216 KP journalists. Analysis of the surveys re
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