The COVID Reporters Are Not Okay. Extremely Not Okay.
A cohort of journalists is drowning in burnout, trauma, and moral injury.
A cohort of journalists is drowning in burnout, trauma, and moral injury.
Olivia Messer Study Hall May 2021 Permalink
A notoriously brutal industry is slowly building supports for its workers.
Christina Couch Hakai Magazine Mar 2021 15min Permalink
Mike Schyck and hundreds of other Ohio State University athletes suffered sexual abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss. Schyck and many others believe then-OSU assistant wrestling coach Jim Jordan—now a congressman from Ohio—knew about it.
Scott Raab Esquire Feb 2021 30min Permalink
A plane crash survivor and trauma researcher turns her attention to the memories we’re making now.
Erika Hayasaki Wired Feb 2021 Permalink
What happens when immigrant-rights advocates reach a breaking point?
Lauren Markham Virginia Quarterly Review Mar 2020 45min Permalink
When a young author started her novel years ago, she saw it as a romance. She sees it differently now.
Lila Shapiro Vulture Feb 2020 20min Permalink
How acute childhood trauma infects and compromises relationships later in life.
Tega Oghenechovwen Longreads Jan 2020 15min Permalink
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico’s “monkey island.” The surviving primates could help scientists learn about the psychological response to traumatizing events.
Luke Dittrich New York Times Magazine May 2019 30min Permalink
After all these years, it’s still there, in the back of her mind, lurking. No matter how good things are going, it never quite goes away, this feeling that she should have died that day. And her brush with death is the first thing that strangers tend to notice about her, like a limp or a disfigurement. Once they find out where she went to high school, that’s all they want to talk about.
Alan Prendergast Westword Mar 2019 30min Permalink
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America.
Casey Newton The Verge Feb 2019 30min Permalink
“I never got any help, any kind of therapy. I never told anyone.”
Junot Díaz New Yorker Apr 2018 20min Permalink
A single pill could take the sting out of our memories of trauma.
Ben Crair The New Republic May 2016 20min Permalink
What good can come of tragedy.
Mark Obbie Pacific Standard Jun 2013 15min Permalink