US inauguration: War-zone experience carries journalists into inauguration coverage
20 Jan, 2021 07:00 PM
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National Guard troops outside the Capitol the day before Joe Biden's inauguration. Photo / Amr Alfiky, The New York Times
National Guard troops outside the Capitol the day before Joe Biden's inauguration. Photo / Amr Alfiky, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Tiffany Hsu and Katie Robertson
Reporters and photographers who are no strangers to conflict are among those assigned to what is usually a day of pageantry.
The main concern of journalists covering presidential inaugurations used to be guarding against the
January chill.
For the swearing-in of Joe Biden today, some reporters and photographers took along protective gear used in combat zones.