The Front Page, 4/9: Newsrooms still haven't figured out what to do when their journalists are harassed online » Nieman Journalism Lab
A bit more media. USA Today fires Hemal Jhaveri. “This is not about bias … It’s about challenging whiteness and being punished for it.” In her eight years with USA Today, the organization never offered formal support or protection from harassment, says former editor Hemal Jhaveri. But Jhaveri was fired after she “sent a tweet responding to the fact that mass shooters are most likely to be white men” — a tweet she now calls “a careless error of judgment” and deleted. Jhaveri wrote on Medium about what happened when her tweet was picked up by the alt-right. USA Today, like...