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Correction: Media-Online Harassment story

A cellphone displays The Associated Press Twitter account on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in Los Angeles. The AP's recent firing of a young reporter for what she said on Twitter has somewhat unexpectedly turned company and industry attention to the flip side of social media engagement the online abuse that many journalists face routinely. (AP Photo/Paula Munoz) (Paula Munoz, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

NEW YORK – In a story June 9, 2021, about online harassment of journalists, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date of a finding by the Pew Research Center on the percentage of people who said they had been harassed online. The previous study was in 2014, not 2017.