How to Handle Haters: Journalist Edition

Journalists indubitably have to face the (oftentimes) unjust and inaccurate criticisms of those who don’t like what we have reported and written. With the Web, our work is constantly under scrutiny, and anyone has the opportunity to comment on the story’s content, the reporter, and the reporter’s mother.

The “haters” vary — be it municipal public information officers, school board members, politicians or just a publication subscriber, if you haven’t ticked someone off enough to receive a nasty letter or angry phone call the morning of publication, (despite your unbiased, factual and carefully edited reporting, of course), you’re probably not doing it right.

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