Category: Access & Censorship
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Google Under Fire for Data-Mining Student Email Messages
Google Under Fire for Data-Mining Student Email Messages The company acknowledges scanning the emails of Apps for Education users and faces allegations in a federal lawsuit that it built “surreptitious user profiles” for advertising purposes. via Education Week: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.html “This should draw the attention of the U.S. Department of Education, the Federal Trade Commission, and…
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Al Jazeera journalists to be tried on World Press Freedom Day
Al Jazeera journalists to be tried on World Press Freedom Day Three journalists detained in Egypt for allegedly aiding a “terrorist organisation” will appear in court on Saturday, World Press Freedom Day. via The Mail & Guardian: http://mg.co.za/article/2014-05-01-al-jazeera-journalists-to-be-tried-on-world-press-freedom-day They are charged with aiding members of a “terrorist organisation”, with the Egyptian government saying they operated…
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Why There Aren’t Any Photos of Hamas Fighters (and Why the NYT, Tyler Hicks and Photographers Have Been Unfairly Blamed) — BagNews
Link: The gist of the argument is that Hicks and the other Western photographers could easily seek out and photograph Hamas fighters, and thus balance out the coverage, but they have been too bullied and intimidated to do so.
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Getty photographer arrested, released in Ferguson | Poynter.
Link: “I want to be able to do my job as a member of the media and not be arrested for just doing my job,” Scott Olson said in a statement from Getty Images. The company “condemns Scott’s arrest,” vice-president for news Pancho Bernasconi said.
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Journalist blames inexperienced photographer in Steven Sotloff kidnapping | dvafoto
Link: Daily Beast published a piece by Ben Taub titled “Was U.S. Journalist Steven Sotloff a Marked Man?” In the article, Taub describes the actions of a freelance journalist (named “Alex” for the article, but later revealed to be Montreal photographer Yves Choquette) who he says compromised the identity of his fixer on the Syria/Turkey…
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ISIS has killed 17 Iraqi journalists over past 10 months | dvafoto
Link: I’ve worked around the world for National Geographic magazine but the most elusive assignment for me has been just 50 miles from my home. In the summer of 2006 I was commissioned to create a portfolio celebrating South Carolina’s ACE Basin. It’s a special place where three rivers and a community came together to…
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The War Over the US Government’s Unreleased Torture Pictures | WIRED
The War Over the US Government’s Unreleased Torture Pictures Even as President Obama denounces the “enhanced interrogation” employed by the CIA and outlined in a scathing Senate report, his administration continues blocking the release of some 2,100 photographs taken in Iraq and Afghanistan depicting alleged torture. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2014/12/war-us-governments-unreleased-torture-pictures/ Even as President Obama denounces the…
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Gunmen storm Paris satirical newspaper, killing at least 12 – The Washington Post
Charlie Hebdo suspect said to surrender; two others at large after Paris terror attack A manhunt is underway after 12 people were killed in a terror attack at the offices of a satirical paper, the country’s deadliest terror attack in modern memory. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/gunmen-storm-paris-satirical-newspaper-killing-at-least-11/2015/01/07/f358b17a-9660-11e4-aabd-d0b93ff613d5_story.html French officials immediately raised the country’s terrorism alert to…
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Egypt Photojournalist Describes Detention of Over 600 Days – ABC News
Link: Shawkan’s older brother, Mohammed, said Tuesday the letter was sent last weekend. He described his brother as a broken man who has no access to books, only eating and sleeping in a small cell that houses 12 other prisoners.
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Behind 60 Minutes’ decision to air video of sarin gas victims in Syria | Poynter.
Link: The story Sunday night warned viewers that “If you have young children watching right now, that is usually a good thing. But this story is not for them. The pictures you are about to see are agonizing.”
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FAA says journalists can’t use drones but can buy drone-created photos/video from hobbyists | dvafoto
Link: Hopefully, there will be legal challenges to this memorandum
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Austin Tice has been missing for 1,001 days | Poynter.
Link: Mads Nissen, the winner of the 2015 World Press Photo of the Year, is an inspiring individual. His award-winning shot came from a larger series about homophobia in Russia. Here, we present to you a selection from the series as well as an in-depth interview conducted by managing editor Alexander Strecker during the World…
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Egypt Warns Journalists Over Coverage of Militant Attacks – The New York Times
Egypt Warns Journalists Over Coverage of Militant Attacks (Published 2015) President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, facing criticism of his counterinsurgency strategy, compared reporting to a “fourth generation of warfare, and even fifth.” Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/world/middleeast/egypt-warns-journalists-over-coverage-of-militant-attacks.html The most sweeping measure came from the cabinet, which included a provision in a draft antiterrorism bill that threatens at least two…
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Slaying of Mexican photojournalist Ruben Espinosa a new low | | Dallas Morning News
Link: Here’s the new low: Espinosa was an exiled journalist in Mexico City, long considered a safe haven from the mayhem that’s engulfed Mexico for more than a decade. More than 120,000 people have been killed or disappeared since 2006. Among them dozens of journalists (organizations use different criteria and numbers range from 50 to…
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Huge Rally Over Killing of Mexican Journalist – The New York Times
Huge Mexico City Rally Over Killing of Journalist (Published 2015) Ruben Espinosa, who worked for the prominent magazine Proceso, and four other people were found bound and tortured in an apartment in Mexico City. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/world/americas/huge-rally-over-killing-of-mexican-journalist.html Ruben Espinosa often covered politics in Veracruz, a state in southeast Mexico known to be a hostile place for…
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Photographer Joey L.’s Photos of Kurdish PKK Fighters Deleted by Instagram
Photographer Joey L.’s Photos of Kurdish PKK Fighters Deleted by Instagram Back in June, we shared a series of photos by Joey L., who made a dangerous trip to Kurdistan to point his camera at the Kurdish guerrilla groups fighting via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/09/16/photographer-joey-l-s-photos-of-kurdish-pkk-fighters-deleted-by-instagram/ Joey also returned to Instagram to repost one of the deleted photos,…
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Janet Jackson is Getting Instagram Users Deleted for Sharing Concert Shots
Janet Jackson is Getting Instagram Users Deleted for Sharing Concert Shots Janet Jackson doesn’t just have a strict concert photography policy when it comes to professional photographers — she’s cracking down on fan shots as via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/10/21/janet-jackson-is-getting-instagram-users-deleted-for-sharing-concert-shots/ Instagram users are reporting that their accounts are being deleted by the service after they posted photos…
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YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its Red Subscription Deal | TechCrunch
YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its Red Subscription Deal | TechCrunch YouTube made its top video creators an offer they literally couldn’t refuse, or they’d have their content disappear. Today YouTube confirmed that any via TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/an-offer-creators-cant-refuse/ It’s a tough pill to swallow that makes YouTube look like a bully. Though…
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A Young Journalist Setting an Example for the Rest of Us – The Atlantic
A Young Journalist Setting an Example for the Rest of Us None via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/11/a-young-journalist-setting-an-example-for-the-rest-of-us/625865/ The point the photographer (Tim Tai) makes is that they’re all standing on public property, and just as they have a First Amendment right to protest, he has a First Amendment right to record what is going on. And,…
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#Mizzou: Media professor demands “muscle” to block student reporter from reporting protests / Boing Boing
Link: Melissa Click, an assistant professor of mass media, blocked Mr. Tai and yelled, “Who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here.”