Reporting Harassment of Female Journalists in Greek Media

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Many artists and athletes have since spoken out about their own stories of abuse. Male and female journalists have called on female colleagues to speak openly about sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. The Journalists' Unions of the Athens Daily Newspaper also encouraged its members to speak out.

A few days ago Greek women journalists have started sharing their stories of sexual harassment and sexual assaults from the past, related to their jobs, on social media. Some of them had the courage to name their perpetrators. So far justice has not been served to any of the victims.

Due to the lack of a focused media watchdog in Greece, Balkan Insight is taking the initiative and organizing its own investigation into attacks on and harassment of Greek women journalists in their workplaces.

According to a report by Reporters Without Borders, RSF, most female journalists globally cite sexual harassment as the biggest problem they face at work in their home countries. Almost 85 per cent of respondents said harassment was common and 30 per cent said it often lead to sexual assault.

Nearly 80 per cent of the responding female journalists described developing anxiety; 65 per cent spoke of stress and 30 per cent of depression.

The purpose of this investigation is to enable Greek women journalists for the first time to speak openly, while protecting their anonymity, about incidents of harassment, physical and phycological abuse and sexual assault that they have experienced.

We want to record incidents that have not been reported so far and have not been punished.

Our team will not publish any cases, names, examples or other information from this questionnaire...