Feb. 1, 2018 By AMANDA POPE Staff reporter Ryerson journalism students are participating in a study investigating whether mindfulness and meditation can help them cope better with the stresses of the job. A four-week course led by associate professor Ann Rauhala and assistant professor Lisa Taylor, both from the School of Journalism, will introduce student journalists to mindfulness strategies for dealing with the anxiety arising from interviewing and may also help participants handle the stresses of deadlines and career uncertainty. “I became really concerned about the pain and suffering I was seeing among our students,” said Rauhala, who is also…
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January 30, 2018 By AMANDA POPE Staff reporter Ryerson journalism professor Gavin Adamson is part of a team that will be sharing best practices for reporting on mental health issues with researchers in Mexico and Chile. The Canadian researchers were recently awarded a $20,000 Canadian Institutes of Health grant for the project Reducing Mental Illness Stigma in Latin America: Dissemination and Planning, which aims to counter negative perceptions of mental illness created by the news media. Adamson, a co-investigator on the project, will be overseeing production and research in Toronto and working alongside his long-time research collaborator Robert Whitley, an…
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By ALLISON RIDGWAY Staff Reporter Three Canadian researchers are giving people who’ve experienced mental illnesses the resources and training to make their own documentary films to see if such videos challenge traditional media stereotypes about people who are mentally ill. So far, participants have created videos with substantially different themes and frameworks than the stories on mental illness usually found in mainstream media, said Ryerson journalism professor Gavin Adamson, one of three principal investigators for the Recovery Advocacy Documentary Research (RADAR) project. “Intuitively, it looks like it’s a whole different shape and set of stories that are being produced –…
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Join RADAR Mental Health for a reception and free screening of short films, made by consumer/survivors, exploring issues surrounding mental illness. There will also be a post-screening discussion with the filmmakers, moderated by Ryerson School of Journalism Professor and Gavin Adamson. Click here to register.
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BY JASMINE BALA Staff Reporter News stories that deal with mental health-related recovery and treatment are shared much more frequently than stories about mental health and violence, according to new research by a Ryerson University journalism professor. The study by Gavin Adamson examined the content of articles dealing with mental health and how they were shared across digital platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. “There’s sort of this assumption that what bleeds leads in journalism,” said Adamson, who co-authored the report with McGill University’s Robert Whitley and Liam Donaldson, a research assistant at Ryerson. “It’s like this catchphrase. I don’t…