The Big Issue Magazine

Harm versus story-telling

ABOUT WENDYL

Wendyl Martin is a freelance copywriter and content editor working for local and foreign clients. After many years at a Cape Town newspaper, he is enjoying writing about a wide-range of topics for UCT. In his spare time he enjoys karaoke, going to live music, cake and wine.

Minimising harm while doing the job of telling stories was a continual conundrum for me in newspaper publishing and while managing a news desk and a team of reporters.

Harm comes in different forms: there are the effects of information and published stories, there’s the safety and well-being of the workers you lead and there’s your own well-being and

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