A Hunter College professor has been fired after threatening a New York Post reporter and a photographer with a machete.
The reporters were attempting to speak to Shellyne Rodriguez about an incident in which she criticised anti-abortion activists on campus, the Post said.
Ms Rodriguez followed them onto the street with the machete, video showed.
Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, confirmed she had been "relieved of her duties".
The reporter, Reuven Fenton, along with a photographer, went to Ms Rodriguez's address in an effort to speak with her after a viral video showed her criticising anti-abortion students at the university.
According to the Post, she shouted: "Get... away from my door, or I'm going chop you up with this machete."
The Post's article on the incident says "she held the machete to the reporter's neck" after opening the door....
...Hunter College spokesperson Vince Dimiceli told BBC News: "Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez and has taken immediate action.
"Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school."