Managing Emotions in Journalism: A Guide to Enhancing Resilience - Hardcover

by Maja Simunjak (Author)

This textbook offers the first practical guide to managing emotions in everyday journalism work based on interviews with more than 30 British journalists. It raises awareness of emotional situations and stressors journalists may face, so practitioners are better able to recognise these and prepare for them, and outlines practical emotion management strategies which they can apply to enhance their emotional intelligence and resilience and consequently, feel and perform better in the workplace. It includes vignettes written by journalists from the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and Croatia, as well as practical scenario exercises that prompt readers to reflect on how they would feel and react in specific situations based on journalists' everyday work.​

Back Jacket

"Emotionally literate journalism is more important now than ever, yet the idea of emotion in journalism often sits in tension with the normative practice of objective reporting. Managing Emotions in Journalism makes a timely contribution to debates about building emotional resilience in journalism practice and pedagogy, through providing journalists, journalism educators, researchers and students with an opportunity to reflect on - and to better understand - the crucial role played by emotions in journalism."

- Karen Fowler-Watt, Associate Professor of Journalism and Global Narratives and leader, Journalism Education Research Group, Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP), Bournemouth University, UK

"Managing Emotions in Journalism offers an honest and insightful roadmap for students, professional journalists and managers who want to build resilience and understand journalistic emotional labour. With the increase in pace and demands on journalism, Managing Emotions in Journalism is crucial in helping students and practitioners navigate what it means to do journalism and be a journalist while feeling a sense of joy."

- Val駻ie B駘air-Gagnon, co-author of The Paradox of Connection and Happiness in Journalism, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA

This textbook offers the first practical guide to managing emotions in everyday journalism work based on interviews with more than 30 British journalists. It raises awareness of emotional situations and stressors journalists may face, so practitioners are better able to recognise these and prepare for them, and outlines practical emotion management strategies which they can apply to enhance their emotional intelligence and resilience and consequently, feel and perform better in the workplace. It includes vignettes written by journalists from the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and Croatia, as well as practical scenario exercises that prompt readers to reflect on how they would feel and react in specific situations based on journalists' everyday work.

Maja Simunjak is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Middlesex University London and Leadership Fellow of Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has worked as a journalist, presenter and editor in broadcast and print.

Author Biography

Maja Simunjak is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Middlesex University London and Leadership Fellow of Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has worked as a journalist, presenter and editor in broadcast and print.