A judge ruled that a newspaper, like any employer, has “a duty to take reasonable care against the risk of foreseeable injury, including foreseeable psychiatric injury,” to its staff. Will the threat of lawsuits push newsrooms to provide more support to journalists?
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Doing this sort of work was intrinsic to the so-called “school of hard knocks,” part of the initiation process for rookie journalists.