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Listening to an #IRE2020 panel titled "Oh, the trouble you've seen: How to manage the stress and trauma of being a journalist."
@atompkins is talking about the stress younger reporters are under. “Younger people are really stressed out right. It’s real."
@atompkins is talking about the stress younger reporters are under. “Younger people are really stressed out right. It’s real."
He says reporters are "getting it from all sides" right now, with COVID-19, protests, people who dislike or distrust the press.
"They feel like they can't speak up because they'll be seen as too tender, too weak."
"They feel like they can't speak up because they'll be seen as too tender, too weak."
Tompkins says research shows we will "see substantial numbers of suicides increasing" this fall, and that the "struggles of mental health will grow."
"This is what's coming," he says.
"This is what's coming," he says.
