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When France beat Croatia 4-2 in the 2018 World Cup final in Moscow, it marked a second triumph for the French, and the culmination of more than 18 months of planning by Reuters to cover the biggest sporting match in the world. The Summer and Winter Olympics feature more events and require a larger reporting budget, but the size of Russia and its 11 host cities – from the enclave of Kaliningrad in the west to Yekaterinburg in the east – made the tournament of the World Cup. Declan Niall, head of editorial logistics for Reuters in Europe and the Middle East, said the most complex sports event to logistically cover in the history of Reuters
"forced us to be very agile on the ground ". 19659002] The logistics included the accommodation and travel of 140 Reuters staff members, including about 25 writers, 44 photographers, 32 video journalists and 14 broadcast team members.
Reuters staff stayed in more than 3,200 hotel rooms, made 750 flights and made at least 50 train trips. Niall said. Reuters journalists usually arrived two days in advance to cover training and press conferences before each match. Rather than driving private cars or taking taxis in the traffic jams of Moscow, our reporters used the ultra-efficient metro to get to games and press events.
Additional measures have been taken. For the first time, Reuters has implemented cybersecurity measures, informing all its journalists involved in the coverage of the World Cup on the management of risks related to the security of information. "Clean" laptops loaded only with essential programs to cover the tournament have minimized the risk of software infringement.
To facilitate immediate connection with other Reuters journalists, the staff also received a pre-programmed iPhone phones were also equipped with Mojo, a proprietary application that Reuters uses to capture and broadcast breaking news in the form of video and photos. When a taxi hit pedestrians near the Kremlin on June 18, the photographers were able to film until our television crew arrived. https://reut.rs/2lfK7qg
Reuters reporting teams based in each city with some distant training bases have been the backbone of its World Cup coverage. As the tournament progressed, countries were eliminated and host cities closed, Reuters staff dwindled. By the time France became world champion, a much smaller group of 40 Reuters journalists – including local employees – were left to cover the final at Luzhniki stadium.
On Monday, Reuters' remaining reporters returned to London after "I missed my birthday, Father's Day, a girl's birthday, and four school sports days while I was there." I was here, and I was not the only one, "said Ossian Shine, editor of Reuters Global Sports. "It was a wonderful Reuters effort and an excellent World Cup, but I think we are all ready to go home now."
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