In repelling online harassment, journalists abroad are enlisting defamation laws. Women are particularly subject to online harassment, an international survey showing that 63 percent of women reporters experienced some form of it. Few got any help from their employers. (Columbia Journalism Review, January 31, 2020, by Anya Schiffrin with contributions by Chloe Oldham)
Reporters, especially women, must separate their professional and private lives by limiting personal details online, one security manager suggested in an interview with the Committee to Protect Journalists. Employers need to step up to provide digital security training. (Committee to Protect Journalists, September 4, 2020, by Lucy Westcott, a James W. Foley Fellow)