Heart Breaking News

How Trauma-Informed Journalism Can Help Us Navigate These Times

an xiao mina
5 min readFeb 2, 2021

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Yellow flowers arranged on the grass in the shape of a heart
Image CC-BY Steven Diaz

We live in times of breaking news that breaks the heart, when that which breaks is not just world events, but us, living and navigating a painful world.

As we near the year’s anniversary of the declaration of a global pandemic, I’ve been thinking a lot about what, exactly, has changed in the past…

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an xiao mina

author and technologist. words and commentary in ny times, bbc, atlantic, hyperallergic, etc. meedan. opinions my own.