The Trucker Convoy Provides A Case Study In Online Threats And Irl Harms
…Kiran Nazish, the founding director of the international Coalition for Women in Journalism, compared the readiness journalists need for navigating online threats to the readiness a foreign correspondent might take into covering a new place. They would go in with an awareness of phone numbers to call if they were in trouble and equipment they needed to stay safe.
“Prepare yourself for the story, and one part of that preparation is A) understanding the community, and B) understand yourself,” she said in an interview via Zoom. “What can you take, how much can you take? What are your limitations and what are your resources? What are your skills that can navigate something when it comes?
“So when you’re prepared for it and you know that the trolling’s going to happen, or you know that people hate you and it could become risky, you have done your thinking in listing down the tools that you have to navigate that as a reporter.” …
