A reporter was covering a rally for reopening businesses in New York on Thursday when he was repeatedly heckled by protestors.

One man followed him at a close distance when he repeatedly asked him not to.

Reporter Kevin Vesey wrote on Twitter: I was insulted. I was berated. I was practically chased by people who refused to wear masks in the middle of a pandemic. All the while, I was there to tell THEIR story.

Earlier this month a reporter in Ohio was also followed and berated by a woman because she was wearing a mask.

The woman was asked to stay six feet away but she did not.

In April, a news photographer was also intentionally coughed on by a protester who did not agree with news coverage.

In a special report by the Committee to Protect Journalists last month, former executive director of the Washington Post Len Downie wrote:

"The Trump administration has stepped up prosecutions of news sources, interfered in the business of media owners, harassed journalists crossing U.S. borders, and empowered foreign leaders to restrict their own media.

But Trump's most effective ploy has been to destroy the credibility of the press, dangerously undermining truth and consensus even as the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to kill tens of thousands of Americans."

The CPJ has forwarded their report to Trump and requested a meeting to address their concerns and recommendations.

Since January, Trump has written 205 negative tweets about the press, according to the independent U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.

Since he announced his candidacy for president in 2015, Trump has written a total of 2,093 negative tweets towards the press.

And he has consistently called reporters who challenge him "nasty" and "fake news".

In 2018, CBS News Correspondent Leslie Stahl asked Trump why he continually attacked the press before filming an interview.

"I said, 'You know this is getting tired. Why are you doing it over and over? It's boring and it's time to end that,'" Stahl recalled later. "'You know, you've won… why do you keep hammering at this?'"

"And he said, 'You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all, so that, when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.'"

In the most recent report, Stahl told Downie: "The thing that jumped out at me was how calculated it was. He plans it out..."

She told Downie that she was wrong about what the impact of Trump's press attacks would be.

"When you say something over and over, it's had a huge impact. Repetition is part of its impact," Stahl said.

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