he earned the ire of U.S. and Yemeni authorities for his reporting that revealed that a December 2009 bombing in the village of Majalla in the southern province of Abyan was an American cruise-missile attack that killed dozens of civilians, including 14 women and 21 children,rather than a Yemeni airstrike on an al Qaida training camp, as originally claimed.
Category: Access & Censorship
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Yemeni president pardons reporter Obama wanted kept in jail
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Rob Hornstra denied Russian visa; Moscow exhibition of The Sochi Project cancelled
You can’t eat ‘reach’ and we can’t pay salaries with ‘brand awareness’. I don’t pretend to know other people’s business models or strategies. But successful business practices are always about having a close understanding of the costs of what you produce and the origins and mechanics of your revenues and more than anything else the interaction between the two.
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Reporters covering Sarah Palin book-signing are locked in a room at Walmart
Jim Romenesko
via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/11/14/reporters-covering-sarah-palin-book-signing-are-locked-in-a-room-at-walmart/
Philip Bump is told that guard keeping an eye on the reporters in the back room was provided by Palin’s camp
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Open Up The Oval
The White House claims to be perplexed by this because, after all, they hired “one of your own” as they said, Pete Souza, to be Obama’s photographer. Can’t you trust Pete, they rhetorically asked? And his pictures are available for free, they pointed out, on the White House Flickr Web site. What’s the problem?
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Baltimore police forcibly remove Sun photo editor from a shooting scene
Jim Romenesko
via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2014/03/07/baltimore-police-forcibly-remove-sun-photo-editor-from-a-shooting-scene/
So why doesn’t Walmart just follow GettyMart’s example? Why not make 35 million products available for free like GettyMart has? Won’t that solve their shoplifting problem? After all, if you listen to the official word out of GettyMart, they see no other way to combat their electronic shoplifting except to open the doors and say “Hey! Don’t Steal, We’re Giving It To You For Free!” Well, isn’t that nice?
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Why The US Government Hasn’t Released Photos Of UBL’s Corpse
Why the White House hasn’t released photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse
There are a lot of puzzled expressions on people’s faces when it comes to the subject of the late Osama bin Laden and why the White House has not
via SOFREP: https://sofrep.com/news/why-us-govt-hasnt-released-photos-ubl-corpse/
There are a lot of puzzled expressions on people’s faces when it comes to the subject of the late Osama Bin Laden and why the White House has not authorized the release of any pictures of the body. Photographs and video were released of Saddam Hussein’s hanging, as well as post-mortem pictures of his criminal sons, Uday and Qusay, after Delta Force took them out. Why not release a few pictures of Public Enemy #1 to prove that he is dead and show the world what happens when you take on the US of A?
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Halliburton to media: We grant interviews only if you agree not to portray us in a negative light
Jim Romenesko
via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2014/03/20/halliburton-will-let-reporters-interview-employees-only-if-they-agree-not-to-portray-halliburton-in-a-negative-light/
I never planned on becoming a photographer. But just like a great photo, it was a matter of coincidence… a combination of, “right time, right place”. I was lucky. For the past forty years, I’ve been a commercial photographer. Those assignments introduced me to people that I never thought I’d meet and gave me the opportunity to see places and things I otherwise never would have seen.
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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 state legislatures,” said Khaliah Barnes, a lawyer with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, a Washington-based advocacy group. “Student privacy is under attack.”
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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 without proper accreditation. The state prosecutor accused them of publishing lies and supplying equipment and money to Egyptian nationals who were allegedly members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood
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Journalist blames inexperienced photographer in Steven Sotloff kidnapping | dvafoto
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 border and led to the kidnapping of Sotloff
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ISIS has killed 17 Iraqi journalists over past 10 months | dvafoto
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 preserve one of the last great watersheds.
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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 “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.
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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 its highest level after the shooting at the newspaper Charlie Hebdo, where staff members and police were among the dead.
