The Psychological Toll on Female Journos in the Hot Zone

Over at Good, Mac McClelland has an amazing confessional piece about the psychological toll faced by female journalists reporting from dangerous areas–stemming from the ever-present threat of rape. While covering the aftermath of the recent earthquake in Haiti, McClelland was cornered by her driver in an abandoned building–a situation she managed to talk herself out of. She was also stalked and propositioned on a near daily basis by various other men. Prior to that, while covering the Gulf spill in New Orleans, “a white oil-spill worker threatened to lynch any black oil-spill worker who hit on me.”