Extension
For Journalists
The Story That Changed You
You filed the story. You went to the next one. The first one is still in the room with you.
For the journalist who entered this work because stories matter and is now carrying the accumulated weight of every story told, every source protected, and every deadline met at personal cost.
The Name It First Experience
You covered the thing nobody else would. Your Journalist Identity Charter names what that cost you and what keeps you here. Through seven chapters, you examine your journalistic values, the patterns you inherited from newsrooms and mentors, and what a practice that lasts over a career looks like. This is the document that belongs to you, not the byline.
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Sample questions
- What story changed you — and what did you do with what it cost to tell it?
- Where does the line between bearing witness and being consumed by what you've witnessed get hard to hold?
- What does a practitioner identity look like that stays true to why you do this work?
Research basis
Feinstein's research on war correspondents and journalist PTSD / Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia on secondary trauma and professional identity / Figley's compassion fatigue framework / Maslach and Leiter's burnout research on journalist autonomy erosion / Reuters Institute on professional identity crisis from industry disruption / Cruess, Cruess, and Steinert on professional identity formation
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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
$9.99
Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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