Online harassment is the largest safety concern for female journalists, new study finds

Online harassment is the biggest safety concern facing many female journalists, according to Courtney Radsch, advocacy director at the Committee to Protect Journalists. Social media companies, have a role to play in monitoring their platforms to mitigate this kind of behavior, she told CNN's Brian Stelter on"Reliable Sources" Sunday.

Radsch's comments come after the release of a new survey from the Committee to Protect Journalists about female journalists' perception of their own safety and freedom in the United States and Canada. The report highlights risks journalists face in two countries not often thought to be dangerous to the press, but where 85% of respondents said they feel less safe than they did five years ago.

"If journalists feel that they're going to get retaliated against, or attacked or threatened, because of the reporting they're doing, that could have a silencing and a chilling effect," Radsch said. The past two years have been dangerous for journalists in the United States. In June 2018, five newsroom workers were shot and killed at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, and another reporter was killed earlier that year in Chicago. Before 2018, the last time a journalist was killed for their work in the United States was in 2007. Already this year, the US Press Freedom Tracker pins the number of attacks on journalists working in the United States at 28.

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