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Trauma, burnout and toxic abuse: Are journalists in a mental health crisis?

Panel discussion with Hannah Storm, Marverine Duffy, Laura Collins and Anthony Feinstein. Journalism has always been a job associated with work-related pressure. Newsrooms have a reputation for being macho, stressful workplaces, so stress is often dismissed as simply "part of the job". But for many journalists in 2020, the pressures have become intolerable: from politicians targeting the media as enemies, to the pressure of feeding a 24-hour, digital first news cycle... in a pandemic; from chronic job insecurity to daily harassment and abuse, via social media, especially of women. So in this session, we ask, how is the online abuse of journalists taking its toll? What have been the stresses of reporting COVID-19? What are the particular challenges facing journalists of colour? Are media owners and editors offering sufficient support for their journalists? Are journalists willing to admit it's ok not to be ok? What help is there for freelances? What mental health care strategies actually work for journalists? And what should we be teaching the next generation of journalists about mental health? In this one-hour panel discussion, you'll hear the views of: Hannah Storm, CEO of the Ethical Journalism Network. She is co-author of The Emotional Toll on Journalists Covering the Refugee Crisis and spent more than a decade working as a journalist for TV, radio, online and print for outlets including the BBC, Times, Reuters and ITN. Hannah is also recovering from complex-PTSD. Marverine Duffy, director of undergraduate journalism courses at Birmingham City University. Marverine has been a news anchor and reporter for Sky News, BBC, ITV and 5 News and last year won awards for her Radio 4 documentary on mental health, Black Girls Don't Cry. Laura Collins, editor of the Yorkshire Evening Post. Laura has launched the Call It Out campaign which calls on social media platforms to take accountability seriously for the online abuse suffered by journalists and members of the public. Laura suffered abuse regarding her gender and age when she took one the role of editor. Anthony Feinstein, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Anthony researches how journalists are affected psychologically by their work in zones of war, conflict and disaster. He is the author of Journalists Under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War and co-author of a Reuters Institute report on the impact on journalists of reporting COVID-19. This panel discussion is brought to you by the Civic Journalism Lab in association with Newcastle University.