Romeo in love with journalist is well protected (8)
I believe the answer is:
armoured
'well protected' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'romeo in love with journalist' is the wordplay.
'romeo' becomes 'r' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'love' becomes 'amour' (I've seen this before).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'journalist' becomes 'ed' (short for editor).
'r' inserted into 'amour' is 'armour'.
'armour'+'ed'='ARMOURED'
'is' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for armoured that I've seen before include "Well protected" , "bullet-proof?" , "Having protective covering" , "Protectively covered" , "protected against attack?" .)