Cliff Lonsdale, a lecturer at the University of Western Ontario, and president of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, is a former chief news editor and production head for CBC Television and CBC News. Since 1993, he has been an independent documentary filmmaker. Lonsdale says “climate change” is needed in newsrooms and journalism classrooms re: the impact of crisis coverage where “emotional trauma is an integral part of the newsgathering process.”
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