Christine Craft Rights Act of 1964) and her media experiences. Her story was featured in an exhibit at the Newseum, an interactive museum of news and journalism located in Washington, D.C. Christine Craft Christine Ann Craft (born 1944) is an attorney, radio talk show host and former television news anchor. She became known in the broadcast industry in the 1980s for her age and sexual discrimination lawsuit against a television station that had demoted her from news anchor to reporter. Craft was born in 1944 in San Marino, California. After graduating from college with a degree in English in 1966, she spent
Compassion fatigue in journalism Compassion fatigue in journalism Compassion fatigue is a condition characterized by a gradual lessening of compassion over time. With the constant overexposure to strong, violent images and texts spread by the media and specially news stories in journalism, people are losing more and more the ability to feel empathy for others in complicated, dramatic and delicate situations. In order to analyse and understand this phenomenon better, it is important to distinguish between different types of compassion and then discuss different media and types of journalism and their role in compassion fatigue, such as photojournalism, films and documentaries, social media and