Dave Seglins
Investigative Journalist at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Journalist & Well-being Champion, CBC News
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2 months ago |
journalismforum.ca | Dave Seglins
Newsrooms and media companies are required by law to protect employees’ health and safety on the job, and to take steps to shield them from known hazards. It’s why, for example, it has become best practice for newsrooms to train employees and equip them with protective gear, safety plans and first aid kits when assigned to cover wars or wild fires - to protect them physically. But what is best practice when it comes to protecting colleagues' psychological safety?
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Nov 11, 2024 |
journalismforum.ca | Dave Seglins
Krantz interviewed 23 journalists, several of whom stayed for long-term coverage. Krantz found that those journalists developed better trust with community members, their stories were viewed as being “healing/cathartic” for some family and survivors, and that investment of time, patience, and empathy helped humanize the news media in the eyes of the townspeople. Krantz cites a producer with ABC News who spent a whole year in Uvalde. “Everyone always says you don't get too close.
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Sep 28, 2024 |
journalismforum.ca | Dave Seglins
She flatly rejects the stereotype of Gen-Z as being ‘lazy’ or a ‘bunch of whiners.’“That’s just a bunch of - pardon my french - BULL!” Siew says. “A big chunk of our lives have been marked by a lot of traumatic events, think 9/11, mass shootings, all these kind of big world kind of markers that really shaped who we are as a generation… And we're a resilient bunch.”“I know, you know, it's like, ‘Oh, Gen Z doesn't want to work.
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Sep 19, 2024 |
journalismforum.ca | Dave Seglins
Cabra knows first hand how an adrenaline-soaked career in journalism can take its toll. She’s been very public about her battle with severe burnout, after winning a Pulitzer Prize for her role working on the Panama Papers project for the ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists). Read more on Mar Cabra’s story.
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Jul 8, 2024 |
journalismforum.ca | Dave Seglins
“We're giving you practical tools and practical skills, but we also want to launch a conversation between you and your colleagues… that improves our own practice, that improves the ways we take care of ourselves and look out for our colleagues,” says Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center in an introductory video. Advances in trauma awarenessThese new approaches to teaching - video micro-learning, virtual reality, actor simulations - are still very new to journalism education.
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