The New Frontline: Fact-Checkers Facing Vicarious Trauma
The frontline of journalism has moved into the digital newsroom. Fact-checkers and video editors are increasingly suffering from "vicarious trauma"—psychological changes caused by continuous empathetic engagement with graphic User-Generated Content (UGC). Unlike field reporters, office-based staff face unexpected horrors with no contextual warning, watching violence repeatedly to verify...
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Bharat Aawaz
