{"id":453,"date":"2023-08-25T07:10:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T14:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/?p=453"},"modified":"2023-08-25T07:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T14:13:17","slug":"care-awareness-in-newsrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/2023\/08\/25\/care-awareness-in-newsrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Care awareness in newsrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Session Host(s):<\/strong> Luisa Ortiz Perez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Participants:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Steve Dubb<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jingyao Yu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Purva Indulkar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emily Bango<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Luisa Ortiz Perez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Defining care awareness:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Duty of care in the non-profit (legal)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do no harm and do more<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Positive notion of care<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organizational care&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Operate as best you care in the benefit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collateral effect<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prioritize the organization instead of the individual<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alignment with the collective interest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It does not always have to be a punitive resolution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ex. Human resources, performance improvement plan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>30 day improvement plan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Setting up people for success<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Compliant way with HR<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As long as you want to be here<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Diversify the staff and structure&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What resources are out there and practices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Punitive, fear and retribution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Weaponization of care<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Power dynamics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Care for the organization vs. care for the individual:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Community table in an institutional&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Access to peer support systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recognition of illness as another condition of the worker not a failure<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Racial components? Who has status in the organization and why?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Union vs. idiosyncratic&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dedicating your life to your work<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Overwork and asking for too much<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Taking advantage of the system AND accountability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Different forms of contribution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Qualitative and quantitative productivity &#8211; give value to impact; revenue and funding<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quality impact that generates change&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tensions:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How do you set up so everyone have equal access to the structural support to be set up for success<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Additional emotional labor, tapping out.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Confusing boundaries between person and professional<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two dimensions: the organizational culture vs. the legal benefits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emotional Gaslighting\u2026..support and unhappy performance, lack of honest feedback<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Compliment sandwich<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Binary understanding bad capitalism vs. good doers&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Women of color and mothering that is weaponized<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inequitable workplace relations\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disposing of:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Not shaming people when they need a break<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2018Expected to be available and online, even if they are in a mountain or camping<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Social media and cancel culture leads to self culture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nobody is born woke<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Toxic positivity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conclusions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Structured worker representation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Empathic budgeting &#8211; budgeting for care<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Let\u2019s be ok with discomfort<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Communities of practice where different conversations and power conversations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A session on how to foster a culture of care and support in journalism organizations, especially for marginalized workers. 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