I'm going to base my answer not so much on my own experience, because I'm not a young journalist and a lot of the criticisms I get just bounce off me. They don't bother me too much, but I must tell you that every time I go to a journalism school to lecture students, the first question I'm asked is about abuse and repercussions.
I'm asked how I face them. I believe that's not only for journalists, but also for women politicians and doctors. It's disproportionately women and women of colour who face this if they are people with strong opinions, and it's across the political spectrum. This is something young people are watching very carefully. They are very concerned about this, because they come with a high sense of justice versus injustice and want to speak, but then are feeling already that they might be silenced and are trying to figure out how to deal with that silence. That has led to what a UNESCO report called the “chilling”.
It's important to understand that abuse, harassment and threats are not only in the form of bad language that comes your way and not only in the form of criticisms—even racist, gendered or misogynistic criticisms. They're also in the form of the dog-piling that happens when other journalists or professionals dog-whistle to their followers to attack you. The criticism itself could appear to be fair or even reasonable, and then what ensues is the dog-piling of attacks of their followers. That is also seen by UNESCO as a form of abuse.
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