Failure to tackle online abuse of journalists could prove fatal, editors warned

Failure to tackle online abuse of journalists could prove fatal, editors warned

Failure to tackle the online abuse of journalists before it’s too late could lead to someone being killed, two high-profile names have warned. News organisations were told they must not wait for a death to act as a “wake-up call” during a panel on journalists’ safety at the Society of Editors Media Freedom Conference in London on Tuesday. Carole Cadwalladr, the long-time Observer journalist who won awards for exposing the harvesting of millions …