#GAReads | Women journalists face escalating violence online. We should know.

“Women journalists face escalating violence online. We should know.”:

Around the globe, female journalists are attacked online more frequently and severely than their male colleagues. A recent global survey of journalists found that three out of four female respondents had experienced online violence. Now, to mark World Press Freedom Day, UNESCO and the International Center for Journalists have released a new report showing the alarming scale and impacts of these attacks, which have increased exponentially over the past decade.

This violence is sometimes called “virtual,” but the damage from this global scourge is very real. Digital misogyny and networked gaslighting intersect with racism, religious bigotry, homophobia, transphobia and other forms of discrimination to threaten female journalists brutally and disproportionately. 

Read Maria Ressa and Julie Posetti’s full article at The Washington Post here…