“Reach out to your local university to find out if they have trauma, grief or PTSD experts who would be willing to visit your newsroom virtually. The sessions can include information about reporting on difficult topics, self-care, resilience, and peer support.
“The main session can be a 15-minute group session about experiencing trauma, and then have counselors in the newsroom for a few hours, available to talk to our newsroom one-on-one when they were available.”
Covering the ongoing, collective trauma of communities takes its toll on the journalists doing the work. Above is an excerpt from the Journalists Covering Trauma Facebook group’s tip sheet, a compilation of advice and resources from its more than 800 members on coping with mass tragedies such as the pandemic. Thanks to group administrator Naseem Miller of the Orlando Sentinel for publishing permission.
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