{"id":278,"date":"2020-01-18T18:54:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T23:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/?page_id=278"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:43","slug":"delete-your-account-or-deal-with-it-how-news-organizations-are-failing-to-support-female-reporters-against-online-harassment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/in-print\/volume-xxi-issue-1-fall-2019\/delete-your-account-or-deal-with-it-how-news-organizations-are-failing-to-support-female-reporters-against-online-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Delete Your Account&#8217; or Deal With It? How News Organizations are Failing to Support Female Reporters Against Online Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For journalists today, online harassment is often dismissed as \u201cjust part of the job.\u201d However, online harassment of female reporters is more explicitly gendered, vitriolic, and sustained than that leveled at male reporters\u2014and its rate appears to be growing. While this harassment arrives via cyberspace, female reporters experience concrete harms including negative mental and physical reactions. Further, there is the potential for harassers to escalate their behavior offline. Despite this landscape, more and more news organizations expect\u2014and often require\u2014their reporters to develop online \u201cpresences.\u201d This Note argues that if news organizations intend to continue requiring their journalists to engage online, they must also address the disproportionate harassment experienced by their female reporters as a result. Where news organizations fail to voluntarily do so, female reporters should be prepared to bring legal actions to force the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Keep Reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/Note-1.pdf\">&#8216;Delete Your Account&#8217; or Deal With It? How News Organizations are Failing to Support Female Reporters Against Online Harassment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For journalists today, online harassment is often dismissed as \u201cjust part of the job.\u201d However, online harassment of female reporters is more explicitly gendered, vitriolic, and sustained than that leveled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"parent":935,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-278","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278\/revisions\/279"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}