Police handcuffed, detained Wall Street Journal reporter. In Phoenix.
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Mila Sanina
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Journalist, teacher, writer & local journalism enthusiast. I hope to use Mastodon to post about journalism, teaching journalism, freedom of the press, writing and thinking. I teach journalism at Penn State. An immigrant from Kazakhstan, I split my time between Pittsburgh and State College.
@taylorlorenz Terrifying indeed. And it's bigger than this case, as you point out. Thank you for this coverage. It's such an under-reported issue. I feel the fear from aspiring journalists around me. I am frequently part of conversations about online mobs and "people online ready to cancel you." And this tension is palpable among students seeing the need to have an online profile if you are in journalism & how social media is hurting mental health and is a source of fear due to threats.
Taylor LorenzI wrote about a terrifying case of online harassment against a student reporter, that's torn a college campus apart, and the increasing threats student journalists are forced to deal with https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/19/student-journalist-harass-arizona/
Natania BarronI am so, so, so glad that we live in a world with books.
Like, books are freaking magic.
Things are tough right now, but OMG, I have books to read.
An extraordinary book for anyone who cares about #journalism by my colleague John Pendygraft -- it talks about the loss of community journalism, devastating realities of local newsrooms and erosion of connections that enabled manipulation & decay of democracy.
1 of his arguments is that serious journalism does not belong in the garbage pile of social media so I get the irony of promoting it here. (Maybe #Mastodon deserves the benefit of the doubt?) Highly recommend! https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813068664#:~:text=An%20incisive%20and%20firsthand%20look,local%20newsrooms%20earn%20it%20back%3F
