Newsrooms in the UK have increasingly adopted measures to addressing the online harassment of journalists, according to a new International Press Institute (IPI) report today. These measures include step-by-step newsroom guidelines for preventing and reacting to online harassment; formal and informal peer support; trauma risk management and mental health first aid; guidelines for using social […]

Comment sections of news sites are one of the arenas where journalists may become targets of abuse and vitriol. To tackle this issue, media organizations in the UK have adopted various measures to better manage and moderate the comments on their websites. Representatives of the International Press Institute (IPI) and the Organization for Security and […]

Newsrooms in the United Kingdom have implemented different formal and informal peer support systems to help their journalists better cope with online harassment. The International Press Institute (IPI) is conducting a fact-finding mission to the UK this week as part of its OnTheLine project, which explores the measures media organizations have introduced in the newsroom […]

For the third part in our series of interviews with the International Press Institute (IPI)’s new Executive Board members, this week took us to David Jordan, director of editorial policy at the BBC. With many years of editorial experience at the world’s best-known public broadcaster behind him, Jordan has a special insight into independent, reliable […]