Seeking excellence but not perfection. Balancing work, family and relaxation. A fresh look at priorities is suggested by such responses. Even for self-styled workaholics, there's most likely a need for life beyond the newsroom. Stress and Gender Further research is needed to explain why women are more likely than men, and minority newspeople are more likely than majority whites, to develop health problems from the stress of working in radio news.
Women are less able to relax from stress at home.
In a separate Freedom Forum survey, Kimberly Burks and I found that male and female TV news directors differed little on the job. Killers Heart attacks and lung cancer appear the leading killers of TV newspeople. That inference comes not from systematic research, but from clippings and recollections from across the years. Heart attacks, the number-one killer, strike all ages. At WHAS and WHAS-TV around 1960, a 40ish anchorman died of a heart attack.