PF Mental Health Journalism USAGM
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- PF Mental Health Journalism USAGM
- June 26, 2023
- The work of journalists can range from covering crime scenes to conflict zones, among other stories. The University of Toronto is looking at the toll journalism can take on reporters and offering newsrooms insights into what they can do to help. From New York, VOA’s Cristina Caicedo Smit has the details.]]
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: TV PF Mental Health Journalism HEADLINE: Experts Look at How Trauma Shapes Journalists TEASER: With 20 years of data on media trauma to review, researchers and safety experts reexamine how to better support journalists PUBLISHED AT: 06/26/2023 at 9am BYLINE: Cristina Caicedo Smit CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: New York, NY VIDEOGRAPHER: Cristina Caicedo Smit VIDEO EDITOR: Cristina Caicedo Smit SCRIPT EDITORS: JJ, Ide VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, REUTERS, STORY BLOCKS PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: 2:08 VID APPROVED BY: Holly Franko TYPE: TVR EDITOR NOTES: For VOA Press Freedom. )) ((INTRO)) [[The work of journalists can range from covering crime scenes to conflict zones, among other stories. The University of Toronto is looking at the toll journalism can take on reporters and offering newsrooms insights into what they can do to help. From New York, VOA’s Cristina Caicedo Smit has the details.]] ((NARRATION)) What impact does a career covering famine, war, disasters and insurrection have on the journalists covering them? That’s the question Anthony Feinstein set out to find. For the past 23 years, the professor in psychiatry at the University of Toronto has amassed a database from surveys of over 1,100 journalists, comparing the results from reporters on the front lines with those who cover less traumatic beats. ((NARRATION)) His study — Predictors of Psychological Distress in Frontline Journalists — finds that female journalists may be affected to a greater extent because they are more vulnerable to violent acts. ((Anthony Feinstein, University of Toronto ((Male, English)) “More depression in more women journalists than men is a very consistent finding, whatever country we looked at. We have looked in multiple countries now. It's something that kind of transcends country, transcends culture. Women journalists are more at risk.” ((NARRATION)) But there are steps that newsrooms can take. Alison Baskerville is an editorial security specialist for Reuters news agency. Her job is to ensure that journalists in conflict zones have the resources they need. ((Alison Baskerville, Reuters Editorial Security Specialist)) ((Female, English)) “And also, as the safety people we need to understand how much exposure they have to that kind of threat and what it is doing to their mental health.” ((NARRATION)) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, was first recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980. But newsrooms worldwide have been slow to recognize how it affects reporters. Hannah Storm is the founder of Headlines Network, an organization that provides newsrooms with mental health support and training. She says recognition of the issue is important. ((Hannah Storm, Headlines Network)) “There's more of a realization in newsrooms that we need to address and acknowledge and normalize conversations around mental health and the impact of our work on us.” ((NARRATION)) Thanks to Feinstein, safety specialists have more than two decades of data, collected from journalists who have covered a range of stories from the conflict in the Balkans and war in Iraq, to the 9/11 attacks and drug-related violence in Mexico, among others. Cristina Caicedo Smit, VOA News, New York.
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: TV PF Mental Health Journalism HEADLINE: Experts Look at How Trauma Shapes Journalists TEASER: With 20 years of data on media trauma to review, researchers and safety experts reexamine how to better support journalists PUBLISHED AT: 06/26/2023 at 9am BYLINE: Cristina Caicedo Smit CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: New York, NY VIDEOGRAPHER: Cristina Caicedo Smit VIDEO EDITOR: Cristina Caicedo Smit SCRIPT EDITORS: JJ, Ide VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, REUTERS, STORY BLOCKS PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: 2:08 VID APPROVED BY: Holly Franko TYPE: TVR EDITOR NOTES: For VOA Press Freedom. )) ((INTRO)) [[The work of journalists can range from covering crime scenes to conflict zones, among other stories. The University of Toronto is looking at the toll journalism can take on reporters and offering newsrooms insights into what they can do to help. From New York, VOA’s Cristina Caicedo Smit has the details.]] ((NARRATION)) What impact does a career covering famine, war, disasters and insurrection have on the journalists covering them? That’s the question Anthony Feinstein set out to find. For the past 23 years, the professor in psychiatry at the University of Toronto has amassed a database from surveys of over 1,100 journalists, comparing the results from reporters on the front lines with those who cover less traumatic beats. ((NARRATION)) His study — Predictors of Psychological Distress in Frontline Journalists — finds that female journalists may be affected to a greater extent because they are more vulnerable to violent acts. ((Anthony Feinstein, University of Toronto ((Male, English)) “More depression in more women journalists than men is a very consistent finding, whatever country we looked at. We have looked in multiple countries now. It's something that kind of transcends country, transcends culture. Women journalists are more at risk.” ((NARRATION)) But there are steps that newsrooms can take. Alison Baskerville is an editorial security specialist for Reuters news agency. Her job is to ensure that journalists in conflict zones have the resources they need. ((Alison Baskerville, Reuters Editorial Security Specialist)) ((Female, English)) “And also, as the safety people we need to understand how much exposure they have to that kind of threat and what it is doing to their mental health.” ((NARRATION)) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, was first recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980. But newsrooms worldwide have been slow to recognize how it affects reporters. Hannah Storm is the founder of Headlines Network, an organization that provides newsrooms with mental health support and training. She says recognition of the issue is important. ((Hannah Storm, Headlines Network)) “There's more of a realization in newsrooms that we need to address and acknowledge and normalize conversations around mental health and the impact of our work on us.” ((NARRATION)) Thanks to Feinstein, safety specialists have more than two decades of data, collected from journalists who have covered a range of stories from the conflict in the Balkans and war in Iraq, to the 9/11 attacks and drug-related violence in Mexico, among others. Cristina Caicedo Smit, VOA News, New York.
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date June 26, 2023 09:26 EDT
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America - English