Stress and Coping in Journalists: Findings of a three-year counselling service

Authors

Asha Bedar, Wellbeing Centre, Centre for Excellence in Journalism Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

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Description

A profession whose practitioners kill stories, make deadlines, and run towards burning buildings can only be one that operates on a steady diet of stress. But gone are the days of valorising newsroom suffering, as journalists the world over have begun to understand the toll their work takes. Burnout, anxiety, depression are just some of the ways they routinely describe their mental state. Support for media workers is, however, scant in Pakistan. It was, thus, the good fortune of IBA’s Centre for Excellence in Journalism in Karachi to receive funding and support from DW Akademie to start a one-of-its-kind free and confidential counselling service for Pakistani media workers in 2018.

Publication Date

9-2021

Publisher

Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ), Institute of Business Administration

City

Karachi

Keywords

Media workers, Confidential counselling, Pakistani media

Disciplines

Health Communication | Mass Communication

Comments

The author would like to acknowledge support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, whose funding made this study possible.

Recommended Citation

Bedar, A. (2021). Stress and Coping in Journalists: Findings of a three-year counselling service. Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ), Institute of Business Administration. Retrieved from https://ir.iba.edu.pk/cej-research-reports/3