Delegates Consider Adding Journalists to List of Protected Workers

By: Erin Beck | The Charleston Gazette

A week after terrorists stormed the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people, several members of the West Virginia House of Delegates introduced a bill that would create harsher penalties for violent crimes against journalists.

Bill sponsors brought up the attack on Bob Aaron, a WCHS reporter who was hit with his own tripod in July, as evidence journalists are targeted here in the United States, as well.