Project Description
I consider it a privilege that former CNN President & CEO Tom Johnson entrusted me to capture his personal story of struggling with depression and thoughts of suicide in this video for a health information website.
Tom is my friend and former boss at CNN. He first shared his personal struggle with me in a video and web report while we both were at CNN. In the years since, he’s continued to tell his story to help others who’ve experienced mental illness and help dispel misconceptions and eradicate the stigma some still experience. Tom’s story is told through his voice with some graphics.
The first opportunity to share my former boss’s personal struggle of coming to terms with his depression came when he went public about his mental illness while we were both at CNN:
