Melbourne Press Club

Webinar: Resilience and reinvention after Upheaval

We are used to hearing discussion of the media focus on lay-offs, shut-downs, attacks and declining revenue, but is the industry on the verge of a long-awaited uptick?

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.

How exposure to trauma affects journalists

Research over recent decades shows that, eventually, our capacity to handle repeated exposure to traumatic incidents may lessen, seeing that “cup” overflow.

How industry changes are impacting journalists

"No one in the media today is immune from pressure nor from unscheduled additional work. It can be as onerous for frontline reporters, presenters, photographers, camera crews, sound technicians, producers, researchers, and social media teams as it is for the people who manage them."

'My north star': journalists reflect on pandemic's footprint

Just what was the impact of COVID-19 on the nation’s journalism? How did the pandemic change us, as reporters, writers and managers? And what did the lockdown years reveal about us?