Double jeopardy Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) In the contemporary world of journalism, female reporters face a double jeopardy: they are increasingly targeted both as journalists and as women – particularly in repressive regimes and misogynistic societies. As the United Nations intensifies its campaign for women’s rights worldwide – even as it annually commemorates World Press Freedom Day on May 3 – one of the questions lingering in the minds of women activists is: Is press freedom incompatible with gender empowerment? Marianna Belalba Barreto, Civic Space Cluster Lead at CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance based in Johannesburg, told IPS the CIVICUS Monitor has documented many cases of women journalists facing online harassment and the gendered nature of it.