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Dean Yates is a no-nonsense old journalist. He’s just finished writing a book about healing from PTSD and moral injury. It’s set around Ward 17, a Melbourne psych unit that treats veterans and first responders. Pan Macmillan Australia will publish the book in mid-2023.
In the meantime, Dean has launched the next stage of his New Narrative: putting into practice what he’s learnt from six years writing the book; three Ward 17 admissions; three years as head of mental health at Reuters, the international news agency, and two decades as a foreign correspondent for the company.
Before the mental health role, Dean was a journalist, bureau chief and senior editor at Reuters for 23 years, covering the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami in Indonesia’s Aceh province. He was bureau chief in Iraq when a U.S. Apache gunship killed two Reuters journalists in Baghdad on July 12, 2007. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange published footage of that attack in April 2010, shocking millions around the world.
Dean lives in the village of Evandale in Tasmania with his amazing life partner Mary and their three children Patrick, Belle and Harry and a motley bunch of pets: three dogs, three cats, seven sheep and 10 chooks.
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By The Code 9 FoundationDean Yates is a no-nonsense old journalist. He’s just finished writing a book about healing from PTSD and moral injury. It’s set around Ward 17, a Melbourne psych unit that treats veterans and first responders. Pan Macmillan Australia will publish the book in mid-2023.
In the meantime, Dean has launched the next stage of his New Narrative: putting into practice what he’s learnt from six years writing the book; three Ward 17 admissions; three years as head of mental health at Reuters, the international news agency, and two decades as a foreign correspondent for the company.
Before the mental health role, Dean was a journalist, bureau chief and senior editor at Reuters for 23 years, covering the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami in Indonesia’s Aceh province. He was bureau chief in Iraq when a U.S. Apache gunship killed two Reuters journalists in Baghdad on July 12, 2007. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange published footage of that attack in April 2010, shocking millions around the world.
Dean lives in the village of Evandale in Tasmania with his amazing life partner Mary and their three children Patrick, Belle and Harry and a motley bunch of pets: three dogs, three cats, seven sheep and 10 chooks.