27/10/2026
Meet the speakers for Session 4: ‘Mental Health In Journalism And Factual Production - How The Stories We Tell Can Stay With Us.’
Journalists and factual programme makers regularly encounter other people’s most difficult experiences: conflict, violence, bereavement, abuse, disaster, injustice and human suffering. The responsibility of telling those stories does not necessarily end when the camera stops recording or the programme is transmitted.
This interactive session will explore the psychological impact that researching, reporting, producing and editing traumatic stories can have on the people involved in making them - and ask what individuals, production teams and media organisations can do to recognise those pressures and respond effectively.
