Whilst the first post in this series primarily looked at PTSD in conflict journalists, attention now turns to two widespread and more common mental health challenges; secondary stress and burnout. Not all journalists report from conflict zones. Fewer still do so exclusively wearing Hollywood-esque battered chinos and artfully unbuttoned light blue cotton shirts (although there are compelling...
The first in a series of posts looking at mental health in journalism and the media. Starting with conflict reporting, trauma and PTSD...
Three years ago I returned to academic study as a 'mature student'. Here's what I wish I had known...
This is my new corner of the digital world. I’m not completely sure what I will build here; undoubtedly it will resemble a collection of random sheds in a garden, rather than Justo Gallego’s cathedral. Nonetheless, this post represents the first, tentatively-laid stone. Despite having a number of websites over the past umpteen years – a necessary evil of freelance self-promotion...