It took seven hours before she gave me the phrase “survivor’s guilt” to describe what I felt. She, a former war correspondent who covered the Iraq War for more than a decade. Me, a young journalist working for a local newspaper during the height of COVID-19.We were eating cheese and crackers at midnight. It had been months since I’d quit a job I loved, feeling somehow responsible for everything I’d witnessed and couldn’t change.I used to write about local public K-12 education before the pandemic shuttered Florida. I also started writing about state virus data. For a year, I covered two breaking news beats and people were dying in both.
Origen: Covering the COVID-19 pandemic, I burnt out. Recovery brings me back. – Poynter
