How do journalists deal with the trauma of being placed on the front line of conflict and tragedy in the course of their work? How do they cope during and after these life-changing assignments, and how do they try to resume a normal life haunted by lingering visions of death and tragedy?
In this moving and highly revealing episode of Compass, former ABC TV foreign correspondent Philip Williams examines the trauma experienced by journalists who have been witness to terrible world events while on assignment. He takes us on a moving journey into the ‘darkness of the soul’ of the men and women whose job it is to report on our behalf events that most of us could not bear to experience.
