This is a free event organized by The Journalist’s Resource. There are practical steps that newsrooms can take to protect their journalists’ mental health. In this session, four experts will draw from their personal and professional experiences to share advice on how newsrooms can make mental well-being a part of their culture. Experts include public media station WITF Director of Journalism Scott Blanchard, Texas Tribune Editor-In-Chief Sewell Chan, Research Director at Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma and McFarlin Professor of Psychology at the University of Tulsa Elana Newman, and Dave Seglins, an investigative journalist and well-being champion at CBC News. The webinar will be moderated by Naseem Miller, the senior health editor at The Journalist’s Resource.
In this one-hour webinar you’ll learn:
– How to create trauma-aware newsrooms.
– How different types of newsrooms can create a culture of well-being.
– How to care for reporters and editors before, during, and after difficult stories.
– How Canadian journalists are leading the way to bring mental health into newsrooms.
The Journalist’s Resource is a project of the Shorenstein Center aimed at bridging the gap between journalism and academia. Its primary goal is to help journalists improve their work by relying more often on scientific evidence and high-quality, peer-reviewed research.