How Journalists can fight stress from covering the Coronavirus [poynter.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 3/17/204:00 AM

By Al Tompkins and Sidney Tompkins, Poynter., March 15, 2020

I have been hearing from journalists who are stressed out by this nonstop COVID-19 coverage.

Journalists tell me they spend all day talking with experts who are warning that the worst is yet to come and with people who are worrying about how to keep themselves and their families healthy. They report cancellation after cancellation while watching their retirement savings dwindle in the Wall Street storm.

My wife, licensed psychotherapist Sidney Tompkins, and I have been doing a lot of training for newsrooms and media organizations about traumatic stress and trauma. I asked Sidney what she would tell you this morning.

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