Why some journalists are centering trauma-informed reporting

It’s important that reporters speak to their interviewee and see a person there, not just a source of information.”

Melissa Stanger, a social worker, psychotherapist and former journalist

In April 2020, as the pandemic was raging across the United States, Ed Yong noticed that many people he interviewed felt exhausted. They worked in pandemic preparedness or emergency response before the virus was officially found in the United States. For them, the coronavirus had been a big deal for months, and they openly spoke to him about being mentally worn out.

A few weeks later, toward the end of May, Yong, a staff writer at The Atlantic, started to consider how the mental health of his sources intersected with his responsibilities as a journalist.

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