Of Course the Journalists Are Burning Out

On covering trauma in a grin-and-bear-it industry that I just can’t quit

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My Twitter feed is a strange amalgam of journalists, professors, theologians, pastors, deconstructing evangelicals, and church abuse survivors. I’m at this unique nexus where I see the exhaustion of reporters who have been charging to the frontlines for over a year now…