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Coping with challenging coverage

While you might consider yourself resilient and able to weather difficult stories – based on what you have already experienced in your career – the impact of continued exposure to traumatic stressors can be cumulative and even single instances can trigger unexpected reactions.

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Easy ways to dial down stress

What are the best ways to take the sting out of the pressures and strains of a day on the tools? The advice is that best short-term stress relief comes with things that can be performed anywhere, take very little practice to master, are free and provide immediate relief, according to this month's column from the Dart Centre.

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Dealing with the dangers of online threats

The prevalence of gender-based violence online for female journalists is all too common. In this month's column from the Dart Centre, Trina McLellan reveals some tips for protecting yourself from such threats, gleaned from working with journalists across the Asia-Pacific region.

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Putting your self-care plan into action

Most media workers will not be greatly affected by the work they do because they are – and will usually remain – resilient, but here's a checklist of things to prepare yourself for a potentially difficult assignment and the signs to look out for afterwards, provided by the Dart Centre Asia Pacific.

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Prioritising self care can protect your career

Journalism can be a stressful profession. Some stress can be positive and useful, like the sort that drives you to deliver your stories by deadline. Equally, other types of stress can be negative, harmful and cumulative.

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In crisis or tragedy, let’s recognise media’s purpose and value

Dart Centre Asia Pacific chair Trina McLellan discusses the importance of journalists' work, and the key skills required in the field.

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Are you ready to cover traumatic news?

Covering traumatic incidents can impact media workers and their peers as well as their managers. It can even affect their loved ones. Those impacts may be transient or persistent, immediate, delayed or long-term.

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Away from capital cities, covering traumatic news presents extra challenges

When covering tragedies, disasters or multiple distressing news stories – beyond experiences and reactions that metropolitan-based media workers have – there are, unquestionably, additional challenges and risks for regional and remote journalists, as the Dart Centre Asia Pacific explains.

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Time to acknowledge and reduce strain on social media journalists

Social media journalists, especially moderators and live bloggers, are like firefighters on the digital frontline, but putting out online fires is not without risks, according to the Dart Centre Asia Pacific's Erin Smith and Trina McLellan.

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Working with traumatic imagery can affect your mental health

As the crisis in Ukraine continues and the situation rapidly escalates between Israel and Hamas, viewing traumatic images of violence, death, and destruction is a daily task for many journalists who work on the digital frontline.

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