Newsrooms are failing to protect women journalists. Survivors hope Felicia Sonmez’s lawsuit will change that.

Felicia Sonmez was a political reporter at The Washington Post expecting to cover an explosive story on her beat — sexual assault allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh — when top editors told her she couldn’t. One reason managing editor Cameron Barr gave her, Sonmez recounts in a lawsuit against her employer, is that her previous public statements on her own sexual assault equated to having “taken a side on the issue.”

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