{"id":2280,"date":"2026-01-13T13:02:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:25:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:25:38","slug":"staying-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/staying-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying safe while covering news"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2288\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carlos_Gonzalez_in_Ukraine.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2288\" class=\"wp-image-2288\" src=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carlos_Gonzalez_in_Ukraine-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carlos_Gonzalez_in_Ukraine-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carlos_Gonzalez_in_Ukraine-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carlos_Gonzalez_in_Ukraine-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carlos_Gonzalez_in_Ukraine-800x450.png 800w, https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carlos_Gonzalez_in_Ukraine.png 1093w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Gonzales 2017, Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/stories\/us-journalists-face-war-zone-conditions-at-home,259608\">US Journalists face war zone conditions at home<\/a><\/strong> (E &amp; P )<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pressfreedomtracker.us\/\">U.S. Press Freedom Tracker <\/a><\/strong>\u00a0showed at <a href=\"https:\/\/pressfreedomtracker.us\/blog\/press-arrests-used-to-silence-protest-coverage-in-2025\/\">least 32<\/a> detentions or arrests of journalists &#8212; all occurring while reporting on immigration action, and 90% occurring at demonstrations. Most detained journalists were released without charges or had the charges quickly dropped.\u00a0 (Also) direct attacks on the press with tear gas, pepper balls and other less-lethal projectiles tripled in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/resources-for-journalists-covering-conflict\/\">The Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a><\/strong> has a long list of things you can do to keep safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Journalists face war zone conditions at home (E &amp; P ) U.S. Press Freedom Tracker \u00a0showed at least 32 detentions or arrests of journalists &#8212; all occurring while reporting on immigration action, and 90% occurring at demonstrations. Most detained &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/staying-safe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}