This article utilizes theoretical concepts of sensemaking and affective events theory to analyze and interpret what type of harassment events journalists experience from readers, viewers, and strangers, and their subsequent emotional responses. Findings indicated journalists experience three forms of harassment at work from those external to the newsroom, and that women not only receive more sexual harassment than men, but they experience more overall harassment, from viewers, readers, and strangers. When examining affective reactions, men say they experience emotions of anger when harassed. Women, however, noted emotions of anger when experiencing sexual harassment, and emotions of fear when experiencing incivility and disruptive harassment and personally attacking harassment.

本文利用意义建构和情感事件理论的理论概念来分析和解释记者从读者、观众和陌生人那里经历了哪些类型的骚扰事件，以及他们随后的情绪反应。调查结果表明，记者在工作中经历了来自新闻编辑室外部人员的三种形式的骚扰，女性不仅比男性受到更多的性骚扰，而且受到来自观众、读者和陌生人的更多整体骚扰。在检查情感反应时，男性说他们在受到骚扰时会感到愤怒。然而，女性在经历性骚扰时会表现出愤怒的情绪，而在经历不文明和破坏性骚扰以及人身攻击性骚扰时会表现出恐惧情绪。