By DAVID BAUDER Created: March 11, 2021 05:18 PM
NEW YORK (AP) - Tucker Carlson s belittling of a reporter for The New York Times this week for publicly discussing how she had been harassed reveals both a toxic online culture and bad blood between the newspaper and Fox News Channel and its most popular personality.
The targeting of reporter Taylor Lorenz started a day after the International Women s Media Foundation announced that it was starting a new resource center for journalists subject to online abuse.
Lorenz, a technology reporter who covers internet culture for the Times, on Tuesday had tweeted her followers to consider supporting women who were enduring online harassment.
The issue of online harassment of women in journalism is in sharp focus following a skirmish this week between Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson and The New York Times.
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A debate over online harassment started with a tweet from New York Times tech reporter Taylor Lorenz. For International Women's Day, "please consider supporting women.