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Learn moreDean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years of facing the worst, though, including the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami, one final incident undid him. In July 2007, two of his staff members were brutally gunned down by an American helicopter in Iraq.
What followed was an unravelling of everything Dean thought he knew of himself. His PTSD was compounded by his moral wound - the devastation of what he thought he knew of the world and his own character and beliefs. After years of treatment, including several stints inside a psychiatric facility, Dean has reshaped his view of the true meaning of life. Here, in all its guts and glory, is that journey to a better way of being. Dean has been to the blackest heart of humanity and come out with strength and hope.
Line in the Sand is a memoir that is going to resonate for generations to come. It tackles the most important topic of our age in an unforgettable way.
Praise for Line in the Sand
'Brave and vital' Hugh Riminton
'Destined to become a classic' Chris Hedges, Pulitzer-prize winning war correspondent for the New York Times
'A clarion call for a new approach to preventing and treating trauma' Matthew Green, author of Aftershock
'Put on your seatbelt before reading this. Dean Yates has produced the roughest, and most honest, journalistic memoir of war I've ever encountered' Thomas Ricks, author of the international bestseller Fiasco
'Too moving for words' Nancy Sherman, New York Times notable author
'This should be a textbook for everyone working in mental health, and an inspiring read for anyone who cares about taking light into the darkness' Steve Biddulph
Dean Yates was head of mental health and wellbeing strategy at Reuters, the world's largest news provider, for nearly three years until January 2020. Before that he was a journalist, bureau chief and senior editor at Reuters for more than 22 years. A diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder in early 2016 ended his news career. Dean was later told he had moral injury as well.
Dean was a top news editor for Reuters in Asia; bureau chief in Baghdad during which three of his staff were killed in 2007 and a deputy bureau chief in Jerusalem and Jakarta. He covered the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Indonesia's Aceh province and the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings. He first covered an earthquake in Indonesia in 1994. He has been admitted three times to the Ward 17 psychiatric unit in Melbourne.
Dean is also an outspoken advocate on workplace mental health, press freedom, government accountability and transparency as well as other issues.
Dean Yates was head of mental health and wellbeing strategy at Reuters, the world's largest news provider, for nearly three years until January 2020. Before that he was a journalist, bureau chief and senior editor at Reuters for more than 22 years. A diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder in early 2016 ended his news career. Dean was later told he had moral injury as well.
Dean was a top news editor for Reuters in Asia; bureau chief in Baghdad during which three of his staff were killed in 2007 and a deputy bureau chief in Jerusalem and Jakarta. He covered the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Indonesia's Aceh province and the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings. He first covered an earthquake in Indonesia in 1994. He has been admitted three times to the Ward 17 psychiatric unit in Melbourne.
Dean is also an outspoken advocate on workplace mental health, press freedom, government accountability and transparency as well as other issues.