NEW PUBLICATION · JOURNALISM STUDIES · 2026
I am delighted to share our new article in Journalism Studies: Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of Journalists’ Emotional Well-Being: Precarity, Identity and Shared Concern in Latin America.
A collective achievement — thank you, Sallie.
My special thanks to Sallie Hughes for her leadership, intellectual generosity and sustained commitment to this collaboration. It has been a privilege to work with her and with such a thoughtful and dedicated team.
Warm thanks to Armando Gutiérrez-Ortega, Grisel Salazar Rebolledo, Carlos Arcila Calderón, Manasvi Maheshwari, Adriana Amado, Jesús Arroyave, Summer Harlow, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Janara Nicoletti, Jeannine Relly and Jessica Retis. Thank you all for the shared work, care and commitment that brought this article to publication.
The study at a glance
The article connects stress and coping theory with professional roles, precarity and safety to examine journalists’ work-related concern about their emotional well-being.
01 · Working conditions
Precarity indicators are the strongest predictors. Heavier workloads are associated with greater concern; higher income with less.
02 · Gender and workplace treatment
Women and journalists reporting workplace bullying express greater concern. Bullying is reported more frequently by women.
03 · Professional tensions
The tension between self-censorship and professional values is associated with greater concern about emotional well-being.
04 · Support in context
Colleague support after attacks also accompanies greater concern. This association may reflect reactive coping or emotional contagion; it does not establish that support causes harm.
Why it matters: The findings point towards organizational responses and structural changes to journalism’s financial model, rather than treating well-being solely as an individual responsibility.
A methodological distinction: The outcome is a single self-reported measure of concern, not a clinical diagnosis. The reported relationships are associations.
Source: publisher’s abstract, author record and supplementary materials ↗
Read the article
Access note: Taylor & Francis has provided an author eprint link with a total allowance of 50 uses. Free access is subject to that allowance and the publisher’s terms; this is not a promise of permanent open access. The publisher’s page provides the available reading and download options.
Publication: Hughes and colleagues (2026). Journalism Studies. DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2026.2734296. Full citation details are available through the permanent link.
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