Dataharvest 2023 - the European Investgative Journalism Conference

Online harassment is a fact of life for investigative journalists. There is no silver bullet to beat hate and smear campaigns, especially if they are part of a coordinated campaign to create noise and discredit your work, but in this 2-part workshop, you will learn how to put your journalistic skills to work to combat harassment.
In the first part of the workshop, we will introduce some of the tactics used to intimidate and discredit the work of independent reporters and discuss the best strategies to address them. We will do this in a self-doxing exercise, where you will put yourself in the shoes of the attacker and learn the techniques and tools they use to gather personal information on a target.