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...