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The chilling: a global study of online violence against women journalists

Julie Posetti; Nabeelah Shabbir (eds.)

International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); UNESCO (2022), 325 pp.

ISBN 979-8-218-09201-6 CC BY-NC-SA

"Online violence against women journalists is one of the most serious contemporary threats to press freedom internationally. It aids and abets impunity for crimes against journalists, including physical assault and murder. It is designed to silence, humiliate, and discredit. It inflicts very real ps... more

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The chilling: global trends in online violence against women journalists

Julie Posetti; Nabeelah Shabbir; Diana Maynard; Kalina Bontcheva; Nermine Aboulez

UNESCO (2021), 94 pp.

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"Online attacks on women journalists appear to be increasing significantly, as this study demonstrates, particularly in the context of the ‘shadow pandemic’ of violence against women during COVID-19. The pandemic has changed journalists’ working conditions, making them yet more dependent on di... more

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Maria Ressa: fighting an onslaught of online violence. A big data analysis

Julie Posetti; Diana Maynard; Kalina Bontcheva

Washington, DC: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2021), 44 pp.

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"This groundbreaking collaborative case study is the most comprehensive assessment of online violence against a prominent woman journalist to date. We conducted a forensic analysis of the torrent of social media attacks on internationally celebrated digital media pioneer Maria Ressa over a five-year... more

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The chilling: what more can news organisations do to combat gendered online violence?

Julie Posetti; Nabeelah Shabbir (eds.)

UNESCO; International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2022), 42 pp.

CC BY-NC-SA

" ... many newsroom reactions to gender-based online violence appear to have been non-existent, ad hoc, or inadequate. At times, they have even damaged the women journalists targeted. Large global news organisations sometimes identified as “best practice” exemplars by expert responders interview... more

Equally safe: towards a feminist approach to the safety of journalists

Jennifer Robinson; Keina Yoshida et al.

London: Article 19 (2022), 63 pp., bibliogr. p.56-60

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"In 2021, ARTICLE 19 set out to make sometimes invisible practices more visible, building on our existing programmes on the safety of women journalists worldwide. We undertook original research globally and specifically in six countries, three in Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka) and three in ... more