The Guardian is offering counselling to staff as it vowed to support
  its workforce after Donald Trump’s “upsetting” US election victory this
  week.

  In an email to staff, The Guardian’s editor Katharine Viner said the
  election had “exposed alarming fault lines on many fronts” and urged
  journalists based in the UK to contact colleagues in the US “to offer
  your support”.

  Ms Viner said that the result would be “[1]upsetting for many others”,
  according to the memo seen by Guido Fawkes, adding: “If you want to
  talk about it, your manager and members of the leadership team are all
  available, as the People team. There is also free access to free
  support services, which I’ve outlined at the end of this email.”

  It comes after Ms Viner sought to reassure readers over the election
  outcome, writing in an editorial on Wednesday that the paper would
  “stand up to four more years of Donald Trump” and that the election was
  an “extraordinary, [2]devastating moment in the history of the United
  States”.

  Ms Viner added: “With Trump months away from taking office again – with
  dramatic implications for wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the
  health of American democracy, reproductive rights, inequality and,
  perhaps most of all, our collective environmental future – it’s time
  for us to redouble our efforts to hold the president-elect and those
  who surround him to account.”

  Above an invitation to donate to The Guardian, her editorial ended with
  the message that the paper “will stand up to these threats, but it will
  take brave, well-funded independent journalism. It will take reporting
  that can’t be leaned upon by a billionaire owner terrified of
  retribution from a bully in the White House”.

  A Guardian spokesman said on Thursday: “What you refer to as ‘therapy
  after Trump result’ is actually our employee assistance programme – a
  function that any responsible international media organisation has
  available for staff at all times.”

  In the US, some colleges have given students time off, an extension on
  deadlines, art therapy classes and access to a therapy duck in response
  to Trump’s win.

  The University of Oregon told students this week that to “promote
  well-being and lessen anxiety during election week, University Health
  Services is bringing Quacktavious the Therapy Duck to campus”.

  Students at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy
  were reportedly told this week that they could play with Lego,
  colouring books, and have milk and cookies in “self-care suites”
  following the result.

  The University of Michigan is also hosting an “art therapy” and
  “post-election processing” event.

  Some stores in the US even closed on Wednesday, with Iowa retailer The
  Collective writing on its Instagram page that it was closing to allow
  for a “day of collective grief”.

  Among the overseas reaction was Germany’s popular weekly Die Zeit,
  which led its website on Wednesday with the one-word expletive “F---”.

References

  1. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/11/06/kamala-harris-speech-live-concedes-2024-election-trump/
  2. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/11/07/watch-us-talk-show-host-tears-terrible-night/