Category: Access & Censorship
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Melissa Click: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
Melissa Click: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Melissa Click, a communications professor at the University of Missouri, is facing criticism after confronting a student journalist covering protests there. via Heavy.com: https://heavy.com/news/2015/11/melissa-click-janna-basler-missouri-communications-professor-video-block-student-journalists-facebook-salary-photos-tim-tai-mark-schierbecker/ The professor, Melissa Click, is seen in the video telling a student photographer, Mark Schierbecker, he “needs to get out” of the…
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Protester vs Photographer Rights: On That U. of Missouri VideoReading The Pictures
Protester vs Photographer Rights: On That U. of Missouri Video I offer these screen shots for the way they speak to the complicated mess surrounding visual access and photo coverage of news events today. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/11/protester-vs-photographer/ Knowing they, as well as the lay citizen, can do their own documentation and distribution, states, extra-state actors as…
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Missouri student files complaint against Melissa “Muscle” Click / Boing Boing
Link: Professor Melissa Click says she can’t recall pushing University of Missouri student Mark Schierbecker, who recorded her calling for “muscle” to remove him from a campus protest. But Schierbecker says she did push him and he has filed a complaint with the with campus police
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Why DJI Drones May Get Safer, But Be Worse for Journalism
Link: DJI is about to make flying their drones safer thanks to a new “geo-fencing” system that will feed its flying cameras with continually updated airspace information and block them from taking off in or flying into unsafe zones.
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Journalists to face Vatican judge in ‘Vatileaks’ case | World news | The Guardian
Journalists to face Vatican judge in ‘Vatileaks’ case Two reporters who wrote books based on leaked material charged as questions raised about church’s attitude to press freedom via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/23/journalists-vatican-judge-vatileaks-case Two reporters who wrote books based on leaked material charged as questions raised about church’s attitude to press freedom
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Chicago Pays $100,000 to Photojournalist Arrested and Abused by Police | PINAC
PINAC News via PINAC News: https://pinacnews.com/ A photojournalist who photographed Chicago police abusing a protesters during the 2012 NATO Summit, only to be beaten up himself by police, received a $100,000 settlement last month.
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Access Denied – The Awl
Access Denied Earlier this year a young employee at a celebrity magazine explained to me a problem. The magazine was doing reasonably well, as was its website. But both were publishing photos taken from Instagram with increasing frequency. This was fine: the … via The Awl: https://www.theawl.com/2015/12/access-denied/ Earlier this year a young employee at a…
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Amnesty condemns 800-day detention of Egyptian photojournalist Shawkan, demands release – Politics – Egypt – Ahram Online
Link: Amnesty International said Egypt’s continued detention of photojournalist Shawkan “exposes the rank hypocrisy behind [the authorities’] claim to uphold press freedom”
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It’s not about this 5c – Marco.org
Link: It’s their excuse to establish precedent and permanent backdoors for themselves so they can illegally spy on anyone’s data whenever they please. They’re shamelessly using a horrible tragedy to get themselves more power.
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Egyptian photojournalist given two-year sentence | DOHA CENTRE FOR MEDIA FREEDOM
Link: Ali Abdeen was on assignment covering protests when he was arrested, but stands accused of inciting demonstrations and spreading false news
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Turkey Cracks Down on Journalists, Its Next Target After Crushing Coup – The New York Times
Turkey Cracks Down on Journalists, Its Next Target After Crushing Coup (Published 2016) President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is detaining journalists, while others are being fired or having their credentials revoked. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/world/europe/turkey-cracks-down-on-journalists-its-next-target-after-failed-coup.html One journalist, who was on vacation, had his home raided in the early morning by the police. Others were called in to…
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Photos by imprisoned Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid featured in a Bronx Documentary Center exhibition.
Why Has This Egyptian Photojournalist Been Imprisoned for More Than 1,000 Days? When supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi clashed with Egyptian security forces on Aug. 14, 2013 in Cairo’s Raba’a Al-Adawiya Square,… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2016/09/photos-by-imprisoned-egyptian-photojournalist-mahmoud-abou-zeid-featured-in-a-bronx-documentary-center-exhibition.html for more than 1,000 days since his arrest, Shawkan has been held in Cairo’s Tora Prison, where…
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AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated | WIRED
AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated Hackers can train artificial neural networks to recognize objects, read text, and even identify faces in obfuscated images. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/machine-learning-can-identify-pixelated-faces-researchers-show/ Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell Tech say that they’ve trained a piece of software that can undermine the privacy benefits…
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Facebook failed to prevent a 14-year-old girl from suing over a naked photo – Business Insider
Facebook tried to prevent a 14-year-old girl from suing it over a naked photo – and failed A lawyer for the teenager, who cannot be named because of her age, compared the publishing of the photo to a method of child abuse. via Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-14-year-old-girl-lawsuit-naked-photo-2016-9 A high court judge in Belfast on Monday rejected…
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In an era of sweeping change, how can freedom of information keep up? – Poynter
In an era of sweeping change, how can freedom of information keep up? – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2016/in-an-era-of-sweeping-change-how-can-freedom-of-information-keep-up/ They had a lot to say: They worried that news organizations and…
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‘Napalm Girl’ Photographer Nick Ut Talks About the Facebook Controversy
‘Napalm Girl’ Photographer Nick Ut Talks About the Facebook Controversy It seems like everybody has chimed in about the Facebook censorship controversy surrounding Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut’s photo “Terror of via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/15/napalm-girl-photographer-nick-ut-talks-facebook-controversy/ “That picture shows tragedy, not nudity,” says Ut. “Everyone in the world, my fans, supported me […] I’m thankful for everyone’s…
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Foreign Reporters in China Face More Restrictions Now, Report Says – The New York Times
Foreign Reporters in China Face More Restrictions Now, Report Says (Published 2016) A survey by PEN America shows growing difficulties in getting news out of the country as its economic importance and geopolitical power grow. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/business/china-foreign-media-pen-america.html “Of course, we can’t compare this to the pressures felt by Chinese writers,” Ms. Nossel said. “But we…
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Cops Have a Database of 117M Faces. You’re Probably in It | WIRED
Cops have a database of 117M faces. You’re probably in it A new report catalogues the sweeping scope and shoddy safeguards of U.S. law enforcement’s facial recognition tools. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/cops-database-117m-faces-youre-probably/ Currently the report finds that at least a quarter of all local and state police departments have access to a facial recognition database—either their…
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Attention all journalists: US border patrol agents can search your phones – Columbia Journalism Review
Attention all journalists: US border patrol agents can search your phones Award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker Ed Ou, who has covered the Middle East for over a decade, has worked under threat as a journalist in almost too many countries to count. Authorities in Turkey, Egypt, Somalia, Djibouti, and Bahrain have arrested or detained him at…
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One month later the search in Syria for photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed continues | News | National | M&G
One month later the search in Syria for photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed continues The photographer texted his family a day before his capture, saying there was a possibility he would be detained before leaving Syria. via The Mail & Guardian: http://mg.co.za/article/2017-02-07-search-continues-for-shiraaz-mohamed-nearly-a-month-later It’s been almost a month since Johannesburg-based photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed disappeared in Syria while travelling with…