“…Aspiring journalists are entering a field wrought with challenges, some of the most perilous and prevalent among them being hostility from news sources, readers, and the general public both online and offline (Deavours et al, 2022; Holton et al, 2021; Mesmer, 2022a, 2022b; Miller, 2021, 2022; Miller & Lewis, 2022; Posetti et al, 2021; Post & Kepplinger, 2019). Despite these challenges, calls surrounding the need to prepare journalism students for and teach them to resist hostile encounters and harassment are just beginning to emerge (Eckert & Steiner, 2018; Heckman et al, 2022; Reed, 2018; Steiner, 2019).…”