This story was originally broadcast on the radio show and podcast All The Best.

"Picking a new name can mean picking a whole new identity, a chance to start afresh and be a different person all together. But with that comes a lot of pressure to get it right."

By Lindsey Green, with supervising producing from Bec Fary.

Music: The Kid In The Bins by Doctor Turtle, Isn’t the rain nice today? By bbatv

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Call Me Elliot

"Women today have to expect it": how female journalism students navigate the threat of online abuse.

Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Honours in Journalism at Monash University, Melbourne.

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As a journalist, you can expect certain things as part of the job. You’ll probably be working long hours. You probably won’t be getting paid heaps, at least not when you first start. It’s competitive and cut-throat and you’re expected to have a thick skin to deal with everything. But one thing that’s not part of the job description when you sign up as a journalist, or part of the course outline when you study journalism, is online abuse and harassment.

Lindsey Green produced the following radio documentary for her Honours degree in journalism, at Monash University in 2016. Lindsey spent a year researching the online abuse of women in journalism to see if the threat of receiving this abuse was putting off female journalism students from going into the industry. Lindsey conducted a survey with 50 female journalism students and found 70 per cent felt concerned but prepared to receive abuse online as part of their job. She spoke to two female journalism students, Elle Hunt from the Guardian and Tracey Spicer from Women In Media, to find out a bit more about how bad the situation is, and how students are navigating this threat.

Lindsey J Green