It was an offhand tweet about Donald Trump’s anti-Semitic followers she posted after the South Carolina Republican presidential primary that unleashed a flood of hateful responses in Bethany Mandel’s notifications on Twitter.
For Dilshad Ali, it was a post she’d written online about the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ satirical “Islamophobin” campaign, advertising a spoof medication to treat “chronic Islamophobia.”
Both say that’s become part of the job of being a journalist. But for many journalists at religious media outlets, their faith is both what can make them a target and what influences their responses.
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