“Joy” may not be the first word that comes to mind when you think about journalism. In some ways, that makes sense: Journalists report emotionally exhausting stories, manage the at-times hostile audience members, and navigate long working hours.
Recent academic research has explored much of that. But we’re missing something essential in all of that research — often, the people studied are still working in journalism. So in a recently published study in Journalism Practice, Dr. Claudia Mellado — a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile — and I explored the mirror phenomenon: What brings journalists joy in their work. Perhaps more important than why journalists leave is understanding what encourages journalists to stay.
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