It’s time to hold editors accountable for harassed news workers – Poynter

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It’s time to hold editors accountable for harassed news workers – Poynter

If you are an editor, publisher or general manager, what, if anything, do you do when employees, especially women, are harassed online?

via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2020/its-time-to-hold-editors-accountable-for-harassed-news-workers/

Jessie Opoien, opinion editor for The (Madison, Wisconsin) Capital Times, broke journalism convention by sharing the offensive message. That same convention asks news workers to ignore slurs and threats, promote their work on social media, and focus on their assignments instead of their detractors.

That’s a prescription for PTSD, especially for women journalists.

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