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    612-822-4611

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Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience

Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience

Bradley, Lisa
Heywood, Emma

Paperback

Writing InstructionGeneral ComputersWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1636672000
ISBN13: 9781636672007
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Apr 15 2024
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

Shortlisted for the MeCCSA Edited Collection Award (2025)

Journalists have often been considered the fourth emergency service. They are first on the scene, alongside paramedics, fi re and police, running towards danger rather than away, and providing independent, veritable and crucial information in the public interest. And yet, unlike frontline workers, little (if any) counselling or training is offered to journalists on how to deal with the horrors they witness, and the trauma they absorb from being at the forefront of human suffering. Further, limited to no training is given to student journalists on how to prepare themselves for trauma, be it from war scenes to the everyday death knock. New research is demonstrating a rise in post-traumatic stress disorder amongst journalists resulting from the everyday trauma they encounter. There is also a noticeable increase in reluctance from new journalists to undertake emotionally distressing assignments. Editors in industry are now calling for educators to invest in curricula that centre around understanding how to cope with distress and trauma, and why work like this is vital to facilitate the work journalists do hold power to account.

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