Saturday, March 27, 2021

“I’M AFRAID TO OPEN TWITTER”: NEXT-LEVEL HARASSMENT OF FEMALE JOURNALISTS IS PUTTING NEWS OUTLETS TO THE TEST


“It started late one day, and you could see it kind of building on social media,” Washington Post national editor Steven Ginsberg recalled of the torrent of online abuse directed last month at Seung Min Kim. The Post reporter had been photographed showing Senator Lisa Murkowski a critical tweet sent by Neera Tanden and seeking comment, a standard journalistic practice somehow interpreted as out of bounds or even unethical.

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