Online abuse: how women are fighting back

With the world only half paying attention to online threats, women are rising up to help each other, from strategy to support

For two years, Michelle Ferrier was the target of a campaign of intimidation and harassment. The only black, female reporter on Florida's Daytona Beach News-Journal, from 2007 Ferrier was targeted with a stream of abusive letters threatening lynchings and a "race war", all in the same handwriting and from the same potentially dangerous person.

But without a specific threat, police said, there was no chance of a criminal investigation. Afraid for her family, Ferrier left the paper and moved away.