Last Revised Sept. 6, 2020

After reading the protocol, also read an open letter here for further suggestions and policy clarifications.

Go in a group of three, that way if two people are split up, one person can keep their eyes on both of them:

• Try to have one camera person and one reporter.
• Set up a “Communication Channel” group chat and a “Media Channel” group chat for the day. Send all media in the Media Channel and all communications and messages in the Communication Channel.
• One or two editors are at a “home base” organizing the information, photos and videos being sent back and running social media.
• Do not separate from the group, if you do, your first priority is getting back together. Identify a location that is visible whenever the group moves to a new area.
• Check in with the editors at “home base” every 15 minutes, if not more frequently. 
• If you or any member of your team is feeling unsafe at any time, leave the area. Your safety is a top priority. If the two people back at “home base” say to leave, you leave, no questions asked.

Other rules and guidelines: 

• No live-streaming,
• Make sure every person brings:
  • Water containers
  • Glasses or safety glasses
  • Hand sanitizer
  • First Aid Kit
  • Phone charger and battery pack
  • Salty snack (make sure sodium levels don’t deplete)
  • Inhaler, epipen, or other relevant meds
• Wear a visible, current press pass when covering protests.
• Have someone bring baking soda and water to wash pepper spray off the skin
• “Home base” has the Emergency Contacts for each reporter on the scene, i.e. parents/guardians/roommates etc.  as well as phone numbers for the faculty advisers at The Lantern
• Reporters on the ground has an easily accessible list of phone numbers and names of faculty advisers and editors back at “home base.”