Female sports journalists have always faced sexism. Social media has made it vicious and relentless | Anjali Doshi

Writing for Wisden Cricket Monthly and the Guardian, journalist Anjali Doshi highlights the escalating abuse female sports journalists experience online. Reflecting on her two decades covering cricket, Doshi argues that social media, short-form clips, and digital outrage have transformed traditional workplace sexism into relentless, highly gendered, and sexualized personal attacks across major platforms.

Doshi points out that other prominent media figures, including broadcaster Alex Hartley and journalist Melinda Farrell, face comparable vitriol, stalking, and death or sexual assault threats for expressing opinions. The writer emphasizes that this pervasive toxicity prompts widespread self-censorship, calling for urgent platform regulation and greater civility in public sports discourse.