Adding to the new faces this year is a new look for Journalists, as this summer saw dozens of journalists being injured at protests.
Although no one ever considered the job of a news reporter totally safe, in the past, people generally respected the space surrounding anyone wearing a PRESS sign on their chest.
Unfortunately, many have grown to ignore or in some cases even become hostile to news personal.
Perhaps the advent of the smartphone, which allows virtually everyone to consider themselves a cameraman, has lowered the esteem once given to journalists.
Stephen Adler of Reuters News Service told the Press Gazette that, as a precautionary measure, they will be distributing flak vests, helmets, and gas masks, as well as Covid-19 personal protective equipment including N95 masks, among its reporters,
He said we will be making sure that they have physical security equipment distributed out to any place that might need it in case there is unrest.
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