Should journalists play a role in identifying rioters? – Poynter

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Should journalists play a role in identifying rioters? – Poynter

News organizations may have an unpopular fight ahead as federal law enforcement agencies seek out their unpublished images from the Capitol siege.

via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2021/should-journalists-play-a-role-in-identifying-rioters/

News organizations should soon expect to hear from federal law enforcement agencies. National Press Photographers Association General Counsel Mickey Osterreicher says he expects that they will ask or demand that news organizations and individual journalists who documented the siege of the U.S. Capitol turn over their unpublished images and videos.