“It takes a community of journalists to address trauma.”

This is the call of PPI-Members in Mindanao, which participated in the second leg of the Seminar on Journalism and Trauma in Davao City conducted by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.

“The media landscape in Mindanao is so unique that certain peculiarities have to be addressed,” Greg Deligero, associate editor of Edge Davao, said.

Coping mechanisms have to be in place to enable journalists to prepare themselves in any unfortunate eventuality, said Sophie Garduce, a psychologist handling trauma of journalists. “First, do no harm,”  she said.

“Newsrooms will also have to start discussing this as well, among editors and reporters,”  Rowena Paraan, secretary-general of NUJP, said.

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