I want to get personal for a moment. Over the last eight years as a journalist, I have covered very traumatic events — it’s the nature of the industry.
As a disabled journalist, the stress and things I cover make me physically sick. My first month I covered the Boston Bombing, and I realized real quick that the news isn’t for empaths or for the faint of heart.
School shootings, natural disasters. I covered the brutal murder of my colleagues and I saw the pain racial discrimination caused my local community.
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