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Safety, reactions, and organizational support: Estonian journalists' experiences with hostility

In: Global Journalism in Comparative Perspective: Case Studies
Dhiman Chattopadhyay (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 40-52

Institution of author: Masaryk University; University of Tartu

"This chapter concludes multiyear research on journalists’ safety and well-being in Estonia and focuses on summarizing journalist experiences with and reactions to hostility. In addition to categorizing and describing the problems, the chapter also provides insight into what journalists expect from the newsroom's working conditions. In the center of the chapter are four studies relying on research carried out among print and online journalists in Estonia from 2020 to 2023. One of the overarching issues that the studies show is the versatility of how hostility reaches, indicating that there is nowhere journalists can hide from it. The reactions to hostility in the newsroom differ severely and bring along disagreements. The problem lies in the lack of consensus on how it is appropriate in the newsroom to react to hostility and what to expect from the organization." (Abstract)