Maria del Mar goat, Who conducted one of the most controversial journalistic investigations in recent years, the Panama Papers scandal, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, spoke in an interview with Infobae about a project he is working on with Google to convince journalists. On the importance of caring for mental health.

So far it has been possible to learn about the levels of stress and other emotional disorders experienced by journalists, the journalist said, adding that there are studies that show that these mental effects in this association are in the historical records since the beginning of the pandemic.

Journalism is one of the careers that works most under the pressure of demand, compounded by the lack of attention this group of professionals have on the mental and emotional health of both journalists and editors and the same media as organizations. .

That is why journalist Mar Cabra, after personally experiencing burnout syndrome, stress and other emotional impacts during one of his greatest journalistic achievements, decided to devote some time to Newsroom and set up his own digital mental health and wellness project for journalism professionals.

She says that although this experience was very rewarding as a professional, she was extremely exhausted physically, mentally and emotionally.

Mar Cabra is a journalist with a long history in the field of investigative and data journalism, who has led entire Newsroom teams and journalists in the last years of his career.

It can be said that the peak of his career was the investigation of the “Panama Papers”, an investigation that revealed the evasion of taxes by millionaires and politicians around the world. As mentioned above, in addition to the Pulitzer Prize for this work, the journalist has also gained international media recognition.

At the end of 2017, he decides to stop his career and that is when he makes the decision. He started the project with his spiritual trainer, Kim Bress, and another co-worker, Aldara Martiteg.

So at the beginning of the pandemic, the Self-Investigation Project was launched, training more than 800 journalists on mental health and digital well-being to help them manage their emotions.

Marr notes that “first we are people and then we are journalists”.

“Mental health is taboo, especially among journalists, and we can not forget that journalists were on the front lines of the pandemic, much was said about the work of doctors and nurses, but not about the work of journalists. “This adds to the question: two years after the pandemic, war breaks out in Ukraine, and then it’s such a straw that the camel’s back is broken by many colleagues, especially those in the newsroom,” he told Infoabe.

The Mar Cabra project had such an impact on the Professional Guild that it decided to use technology to turn it into a platform that thousands of journalists could access from anywhere in the world via the Internet.

For the second phase of the project, they received funding from the European Union for the Media Stars initiative, which created a website, video and digital support materials. But now Mar Cabra and its partners have teamed up with Google to make strategic alliances and campaigns that will allow them to reach 1,000 journalists by the end of this year.

Interested professionals should contact: theselfinvestigationacademy.thinkific.com

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