About me
James Scurry is an Assistant Editor at Sky News UK, a licensed psychotherapist and Co-founder and Co-director at the British mental health non-profit organisation Safely Held Spaces, which provides editorial mental health training programmes to newsrooms. James has worked in television news, radio and print journalism for almost 20 years [Sky News, ITV News London, Al Jazeera English, TRT World, Channel 9 Australia] and is one of the organisers of the annual British mental health symposium for journalists, MediaStrong. He also recently completed a teacher training qualification in mindfulness-based movement practices for trauma in Berkeley in California. His work focuses on the impact of trauma experienced by those working in frontline roles, as well as those in newsrooms, and he has worked in the UK and internationally with police, veterans and soldiers experiencing post-traumatic stress and complex trauma. He is interested in helping journalists to better understand the impact dysregulation of the nervous system has on both written copy and their interviews with a view to helping them tell better and more accurate stories.