A survey conducted among journalists in the United States in March 2022 found that 36 percent of journalists working in legacy TV news had been harassed by someone external to their news organization several times, making this group the most likely to have experienced harassment. The most common form of harassment was threats of personal physical harm, followed by sexual harassment.
Journalists who have been harassed by someone outside their organization in the past year in the United States as of March 2022, by platform
'Radio' includes news organizations whose original platform is radio or podcast, 'online' includes organizations with websites, apps, or social media as the original platform.
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Pew Research Center. (June 13, 2022). Journalists who have been harassed by someone outside their organization in the past year in the United States as of March 2022, by platform [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1326203/journalists-harassment-by-platform-us/
Pew Research Center. "Journalists who have been harassed by someone outside their organization in the past year in the United States as of March 2022, by platform." Chart. June 13, 2022. Statista. Accessed December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1326203/journalists-harassment-by-platform-us/
Pew Research Center. (2022). Journalists who have been harassed by someone outside their organization in the past year in the United States as of March 2022, by platform. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1326203/journalists-harassment-by-platform-us/
Pew Research Center. "Journalists Who Have Been Harassed by Someone outside Their Organization in The past Year in The United States as of March 2022, by Platform." Statista, Statista Inc., 13 Jun 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1326203/journalists-harassment-by-platform-us/
Pew Research Center, Journalists who have been harassed by someone outside their organization in the past year in the United States as of March 2022, by platform Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1326203/journalists-harassment-by-platform-us/ (last visited December 22, 2024)
Journalists who have been harassed by someone outside their organization in the past year in the United States as of March 2022, by platform [Graph], Pew Research Center, June 13, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1326203/journalists-harassment-by-platform-us/
