ADADSonmez, a politics breaking-news reporter, has been open about being a survivor of sexual assault. The issue first came up at The Post during Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s contentious nomination hearings in 2018. Given her public profile on sexual assault, Post editors told Sonmez that she couldn’t cover Kavanaugh, who was accused of assault, or stories surrounding the #MeToo movement. The impetus for the meeting was the sexist and racist online harassment of a Post reporter, Seung Min Kim, several days earlier. “Following a newsroom discussion two weeks ago, editors began re-evaluating limitations on the scope of Felicia’s work as a breaking-news reporter,” Post spokeswoman Kris Coratti said in a statement.

Source: Washington Post March 30, 2021 01:11 UTC