How to Consume News Without It Eating You Alive

The world is on fire. Here’s how to stay informed without making yourself sick.

Claire Splan
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readJul 10, 2020

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Man reading newspaper that is on fire
Photo by Nijwam Swargiary on Unsplash

This is a rough time to be a news junkie. Every day we are getting bombarded with reportage that feels overwhelmingly negative, often dire even. There has always been bad news to report, but we seem to be in a particularly long, particularly intense…

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Claire Splan
ILLUMINATION

Author/Editor. Writes about gardening, writing, etc. Medium Publications: Garden to Table and Writing in Place.