Avoiding Burnout: Make Well-being a Priority While Being An Amazing Journalist

  • Saturday, Sep 24 – 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PT (18:30 – 19:30 UTC)
  • Location: Virtual event
  • #ONA22Wellbeing
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Join this essential conversation providing insights and tools to bring well-being and rest to an "always-on” journalism culture. Even as uncertainty and disruption in the news industry and in society require high level, best practice journalism, journalists themselves are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress and burnout rates in newsrooms are at all-time highs.

This session will make space for conversation around mental health issues and will provide actionable tips on how to create healthier work environments, from organizational and structural decisions to individual actions.

This session is designed for:

  • News leaders working to improve their organizations and support staff better
  • Journalists wrestling with the everyday challenges of news work in our current era
  • Everyone who cares about keeping journalists healthy and well (everyone!)

Speaker

Mar Cabra
Co-founder, The Self-Investigation
@cabralens