Menulis laporan kekerasan seksual

Damaris Colhoun menulis tentang bagaimana membuat laporan tentang kasus kekerasan seksual secara lebih baik. Dalam tulisannya, Damaris meliput pernyataan John Woodrow Cox, salah satu staf penulis di The Washington Post yang berpendapat tentang kasus kekerasan seksual pada laporan The Rolling Stone.

John Woodrow Cox menyatakan:

"“In that Rolling Stone story, it seemed like the nutgraf might have been written early on, and that it was looking for a narrative that fit it,” Cox says, referring to what is usually the third or fourth paragraph in a story that explains what the piece is about, as well as its significance. “And then, in the interviews the author gave in the days after the story ran, there was some pretty clear bias that she had towards the institutions, towards the fraternity culture. Often our biases come from legitimate sources, they come from things that are real. We’re not just inventing them. But as a reporter, especially if you’re doing any kind of investigative work, it’s so dangerous to let those biases creep in because they can inform you from day one, just by saying, I’m going to call this expert, but not that one,” Cox continues."

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