Journalist Safety: U.S. midterm elections

In the lead-up to the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, CPJ has created and gathered a range of resources for journalists who are reporting on the elections and related political events.

Journalists covering elections and political rallies in the U.S. in recent years have been subjected to online and verbal harassment and even physical assault, CPJ has found.

If you are a journalist covering the midterm elections and you would like to speak with someone about a workshop, online harassment or your digital safety, please email [email protected].

• CPJ’s U.S. midterms safety kit

• Safety note on safe research and reporting practices

• A guide to PPE

• Psychological safety – Committee to Protect Journalists

• Physical and digital safety: Covering protests and civil unrest

• Physical and digital safety: Arrest and detention safety note

• Psychological safety guidance

• Protecting against online harassment  | Español

• Protecting against targeted online attacks | Español

• Removing personal data from the internet | Español

• Secure your accounts | Español

• Online abuse and mental health | Español

• Editor’s checklist for digital abuse

• Protecting against online abuse

• Adversarial or confrontational sources

• Learn about journalists’ legal rights in CPJ’s U.S. legal guide | Español

• Contact the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press legal hotline at 1-800-336-4243, hotline@ rcfp.org, or online here.

• Acquire a press pass through the Frontline Freelance Register (available to freelancers) or the National Press Photographers Association (available to visual journalists)