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TOGETHER TOWARDS HEALTHIER NEWSROOMS
Building Trauma-Responsive Newsrooms
Building Trauma-Responsive Newsrooms
MediaStrong helps newsrooms strengthen mental wellbeing and resilience through specialist training, consultancy, and leadership development designed for the realities of modern reporting.
Drawing on frontline experience, trauma psychology, and three decades in journalism, we support media organisations to build safer, healthier and more sustainable editorial environments.
What we do
What we do
MediaStrong equips journalists, editors and media leaders with the knowledge, tools and systems to navigate trauma, stress and high‑intensity reporting with confidence.
We provide:
✔ Specialist Training & Workshops
✔ Specialist Training & Workshops
Practical, evidence‑based sessions including:
Trauma awareness
Nervous system regulation in the newsroom
UGC safety
Leadership for wellbeing
DecomPress decompression training
Flagship 6–8 Week Programme
Flagship 6–8 Week Programme
Trauma‑Responsive Newsrooms - a structured, transformational course for entire teams.
Consultancy & Culture Change
Consultancy & Culture Change
Trauma‑risk audits, policy development, editorial protocols, leadership support and wellbeing strategy design.
Student & Early‑Career Support
Student & Early‑Career Support
Through partnerships with universities and journalism schools.
Signature Programme -
Trauma Responsive Newsrooms (6 weeks)
A comprehensive cohort‑based programme for newsrooms facing repeated exposure to distressing or traumatic content.
Signature Programme -
Trauma Responsive Newsrooms (6 weeks)
A comprehensive cohort‑based programme for newsrooms facing repeated exposure to distressing or traumatic content.
Your teams will learn how to:
Reduce risk of vicarious trauma, burnout and moral injury
Handle traumatic and graphic material safely
Strengthen editorial decision‑making under pressure
Build predictable, safe workflows
Lead with psychological safety
Implement long‑term wellbeing culture change
Includes:
Weekly 90‑minute live sessions
Full implementation toolkit
Microlearning videos
Optional Manager Labs
Certificates for all participants
Why this matters
Why this matters
Modern journalism exposes staff to unprecedented volumes of traumatic material — from breaking news and conflict to courts, crime, UGC verification and online violence.
Supporting journalists is no longer optional; it’s a core editorial responsibility that strengthens retention, accuracy, ethical practice and long‑term wellbeing.
MediaStrong Conference
MediaStrong Conference
The MediaStrong Conference London runs in conjunction with Safely Held Spaces, Sky News, James Scurry, City, St George's University and Public Media Alliance is a premier annual media wellbeing summit featuring expert keynotes — notably Jeremy Bowen and Clarissa Ward — bringing together newsrooms from all over the World to tackle the issue of newsroom mental health. This year's speakers are outlined below.
MediaStrong Charter
MediaStrong Charter
The MediaStrong Newsroom Wellbeing Charter is a practical framework to guide newsrooms to foster mental health cultures, normalise conversations, and proactively staff newsroom staff. Newsrooms from across the UK and Ireland are signing up to the pledge.
MediaStrong Consultancy
MediaStrong Consultancy
We help organisations build long‑term wellbeing structures through:
Trauma‑risk audits
Editorial workflow redesign
Policy and protocol development
Leadership coaching
Retained wellbeing advisory support
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