Covering Elections: Journalist Safety Kit

by the Committee to Protect Journalists

DURING ELECTIONS, journalists frequently cover rallies, campaign events, and protests, which can increase their risk of being attacked, harassed, and detained. CPJ’s Emergencies Response Team (ERT) has compiled a Safety Kit with information for editors, reporters, and photojournalists on how to prepare for elections and how to mitigate digital, physical and psychological risk.

CPJ’s Journalist Security Guide has additional information on basic preparedness and assessing and responding to risk. CPJ’s resource center has additional information and tools for pre-assignment preparation and post-incident assistance.

Click the links below for the resource materials :

• Editor’s Safety Checklist
• Psychological Safety: Managing trauma in the newsroom
• Physical Safety: Covering rallies and protests
• Physical Safety: Covering hostile communities
• Physical Safety: Covering crime
• Psychological Safety: Trauma-related stress
• Digital Safety: Basic device preparedness
• Digital Safety: Identifying bots
• Digital Safety: Online harassment
• Digital Safety: Securing and storing materials