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Bees and internet trolls are both pests. By ignoring them when they’re buzzing around your ear, you’re hoping they’ll eventually just go away. But what works for a flying insect may not work online. Still, do you test it out? If it doesn’t work, are you too late? That’s the quandary media companies face, especially when it comes to backing their journalists — and recently the brunt of attacks online have targeted female journalists. “Don’t read your mentions,” is a tired strategy that isn’t working : “No journalist is above criticism. But what female journalists described to me goes beyond legitimate scrutiny of a headline or story framing and into their sex lives, their families, and other topics unrelated to their work, a wildly disproportionate level of pushback to any perceived journalistic offense. … A lack of institutional support has left women journalists to turn elsewhere: to a loose network of support that they have formed with one another.”

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