Podcaster Erica Mandy is making the news NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy, of Redondo Beach, aims to make making the news “fast fair and fun” on her podcast NewsWorthy. Photo courtesy of NewsWorthy After a decade of spending most of her waking hours broadcasting the news, Redondo Beach resident Erica Mandy was approaching burnout. She had the job she’d always dreamed of, in sun-soaked Los Angeles, a major metropolitan market. She’d worked her way up from a part-time job in the small college town of Columbia, Missouri, and through a broadcast position in Portland, Oregon, to a position reporting on KCBS-KCAL for CBS Los Angeles. Three years later, she wasn’t sure it was what she wanted after all. Day in and day out, she arrived at the scenes of worst-case scenarios and talked to people about their tragedies. “No one told me about the impact of that in journalism school,” Mandy said. Burnout is a familiar feeling for reporters and others who spend a lot of time thinking about disaster and struggle, from activists to therapists to EMTs. But increasingly it’s echoing beyond the scope of particular professions. In 2017, the Pew Research Center published a study that revealed seven out of 10 Americans believed they had developed “news fatigue.” In…
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