The Toll That Confronting Stories Can Take on Reporters

The toll that confronting stories can take on reporters is real. I just put out a film for HBO called Endangered with Heidi Ewing and Rachel Brady, two wonderful filmmakers. We followed around a number of reporters facing a number of different kinds of threats to their safety or their journalism or both. To appreciate that all of us reporting in the United States have the protections and privileges of a pretty robust free press,. The First Amendment, basic rule of law.