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#JournalistsToo: TrollBusters: When passion and purpose meet the world’s needs | Michelle Ferrier (United States)

Nov 25, 2021 | #JournalistsToo, Stories of Others

I have receipts.    As the first African-American columnist at the newspaper, I began receiving racist, violent hate mail for my writings almost as soon as I started finding my voice in the lifestyle section of the newspaper.  All told, I’d received more than a...

Women journalists face violence and sexualized attacks – UN expert #JournalistsToo – Women Journalists Speak Out

Nov 25, 2021 | #JournalistsToo

From rape, sexual assault, death and rape threats and sexual harassment to trolling, gendered hate speech, disinformation, smear campaigns and threats to family members – women journalists are subjected to threats and attacks in the course of their work just for being...

#JournalistsToo: Brazilian women journalists against harassment: a collective struggle | Janaina Garcia (Brazil)

Nov 24, 2021 | #JournalistsToo

In the last two years, we have been seeing frequent reports on the Brazilian news about women journalists being harassed morally or sexually by sources and within their own work environments. This does not mean the phenomenon is new in Brazilian society – a society in...

#JournalistsToo: Backing off is not an option | Diana Moukalled (Lebanon)

Nov 24, 2021 | #JournalistsToo

I am an enthusiast of free spaces of expression created through social media, especially Twitter. I tend to follow the trending hashtags, I read the comments and participate in writing replies expressing opinions that are considered bold in our societies. I mean views...

#JournalistsToo: Transforming the pain | Jineth Bedoya Lima (Colombia)

Nov 24, 2021 | #JournalistsToo

Absolute loneliness. It’s the second sensation that overcomes you after a violent attack. The first one is feeling muerta en vida, dead even though you’re still alive. That’s how I felt on May 25 in 2000, after being tortured and raped by three of the men who’d...

#JournalistsToo: A traitor that never was | Arzu Geybulla (Azerbaijan)

Nov 24, 2021 | #JournalistsToo, Stories of Others

On 1 December 2014, a friend tagged me in a Facebook post. When I clicked to see what it was about, I froze in horror. It was a post by Interaz – International Azerbaijan Television, a major national television channel broadcasting from Russia, according to the...
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