The dead would include some of the reporters taking pictures of the young dying boy on the street along with the crowd that gathereed around him. But with a little caution and distance they have all managed not to get infected.
It is possible for the virus to become airborne, but it is much more likely that random mutations will make it less potent. It can hardly get more potent than it is now. Some small droplet airborne transmission must be possible already, but into the eyes or nose. I just don't see how that is going to change much without aerosolization and that is really a low probability compared to other outcomes.
A photographer working for NBC in Monrovia, Liberia now has Ebola. He surely did not touch sick or dead victims. How did he get the disease?