burnout

Over half of journalists considered quitting due to burnout this year, per new report

A Muck Rack survey found high levels of burnout and exhaustion among journalists. One potential reason? The upcoming election.

September 24, 2024

How finding work-life chemistry can stop burnout

Talking through finding a better framework for your life and work

January 17, 2024

Journalists, we need to rethink how we fight burnout

Here’s how to reframe it with more nuance and a personal toolkit to begin to address it

January 3, 2024

Local journalism’s burnout crisis is unsustainable

Recent surveys and academic work show how widespread burnout is among local reporters and offer hopeful solutions … for newsrooms willing to take them

June 22, 2023

Elizabeth Djinis

Opinion | Journalism isn’t who you are. It’s what you do.

Making journalism part of our identities justifies the passion and purpose that brought us to the profession. It also makes us supremely exploitable.

December 3, 2021

Your advice for early-career journalists

Every other issue of The Cohort newsletter will include your responses, resources, and a highlight of a stellar job seeker

October 26, 2021

Alex Sujong Laughlin

How losing my dad helped me gain a new outlook on work

The last real conversation I had with my dad was about work. More accurately, it…

May 13, 2016

Katie Hawkins-Gaar

10 tips for preventing staff burnout in spite of more work, fewer resources

Motivation. It's a popular topic in leadership teaching. Keeping staff members engaged, positive and productive…

March 22, 2012