Category: Access & Censorship

Vogue’s flattering profile on Assad’s wife disappears from Web


Link: The Washington Post

Although the Vogue piece didn’t mention it, the photos that accompanied the article — of Asma al-Assad, her husband and two of their children at home in Damascus — were facilitated by an American public-relations firm working for the Syrian government. The firm, Brown Lloyd James, was paid $25,000 to set up a photo session with James Nachtwey, the famed war photographer who shot the pictures for Vogue.

Olympic Games will be live streamed liberally, but there are strict rules for photography, social media


Link: Poynter

The guards refused to let Walker leave immediately. The incident, he writes, ended after the security guards “called police, who also asked to see the video footage, citing the Terrorism Act. The reporter was allowed to leave after neither he nor the police could properly operate the camera to replay the footage.”