Perilous

Preparing for Risks and Building Resilience

“…Several factors may increase the risk of traumatic mental aftereffects, such as frequent exposure to covering traumatic events (Backholm 2012; Simpson and Boggs 1999), high intensity assignments (Anderson 2018;Pyevich, Newman, and Daleiden 2003;Feinstein 2013), and the duration of the assignment (McMahon 2016). Anderson (2018) shows that feelings of guilt evoked enduring, strong emotions in photographers. Browne, Evangeli, and Greenberg (2012) find a correlation between high levels of guilt and PTSD symptoms in journalists.…”

“…Smith, Drevo, and Newman (2017, 224) state that "with better psychological preparations and a consistent and supportive organizational climate, journalists may be better supported to continue delivering high quality news and suffer fewer psychological consequences". However, research shows that news organizations "continue to be negligent" (Anderson 2018(Anderson , 1628. To mitigate profound reactions to working on traumatic events, Buchanan and Keats (2011, 134) write there is "a need to improve the culture of journalism".…”

Risco, vitimização e estratégias de enfrentamento de jornalistas no México e no Brasil

“…For instance, U.S.-based journalists who covered traumatic domestic events coped by 'remembering their job's higher purposes' or concentrating on their 'work's importance' and talking with colleagues about work experiences (Dworznik-Hoak 2020; Seely 2019). Some studies outside of Mexico and Brazil have found that news managers and organizational support could facilitate coping, predominantly adaptive coping in other, international contexts (Muala 2017) though organizational commitment has often been uneven or inconsistent (Anderson 2018;Greenberg et al 2009; Simpson and Boggs 1999). However, when lack of social support and the nature of risk makes the possibility of successful coping remote, journalists turn to other forms of coping that reduce their professional autonomy, such as self-censoring or modifying reporting practices in response to threats (Löfgren Nilsson and Örnebring 2016;.…”

“…As a result, they are often at risk for repeated exposure to trauma based on what they experience and report upon (Monteiro and Marques Pinto 2017;Osofsky, Holloway, and Pickett 2005). While work-related traumas or stressors from reporting are becoming well documented, particularly for those who cover powerful stories on mass violence (see for instance : Anderson 2018;Newman et al 2003), it is also true that journalists who remain within the newsroom can also experience dangerous or stressful events or conditions (Feinstein et al 2014) including forms of workplace violence (Chen et al 2020;Ferreir 2019). These events and conditions are suggested to be linked to greater macro-related structural risks, including changes to the political economy of news that increase labor precarity (Örnebring 2018), cultural and identity-based risks from oppressive normative systems, including from aggressive partisans and extremists (Brambila and Hughes 2019;Waisbord 2020), and risks originating from weak or changing enforcement of the rule of law that increases journalists' vulnerability to corrupt officials, security forces and criminal groups (Gonzalez 2021;Hughes and Vorobyeva 2019).…”

Violences Publiques – Public Violence – Violências Públicas

“…For instance, U.S.-based journalists who covered traumatic domestic events coped by 'remembering their job's higher purposes' or concentrating on their 'work's importance' and talking with colleagues about work experiences (Dworznik-Hoak 2020;Seely 2019). Some studies outside of Mexico and Brazil have found that news managers and organizational support could facilitate coping, predominantly adaptive coping in other, international contexts (Muala 2017) though organizational commitment has often been uneven or inconsistent (Anderson 2018;Greenberg et al 2009;Simpson and Boggs 1999). However, when lack of social support and the nature of risk makes the possibility of successful coping remote, journalists turn to other forms of coping that reduce their professional autonomy, such as self-censoring or modifying reporting practices in response to threats (Löfgren .…”