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.
Category: Access & Censorship
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Austin Tice has been missing for 1,001 days | Poynter.
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 Press Photo Award Days in Amsterdam.
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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.”
The most sweeping measure came from the cabinet, which included a provision in a draft antiterrorism bill that threatens at least two years in prison for those who contradict official figures, such as death tolls, when reporting on militant attacks.
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Slaying of Mexican photojournalist Ruben Espinosa a new low | | Dallas Morning News
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 more than 120), killed, dozens disappeared, hundreds assaulted.
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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 journalists, and he spoke out against the harassment of fellow journalists.
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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, this time in his hands as a print — it’s a print that will be featured at the National Portrait Gallery in London later this year:
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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 and videos of Jackson during her Unbreakable concert tour
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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 turning existing fans into paid subscribers instead of free viewers could earn creators more than the ad revenue, forcing them into the deal seems heavy-handed.
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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
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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, as he points out, to document it for history.
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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.
The professor, Melissa Click, is seen in the video telling a student photographer, Mark Schierbecker, he “needs to get out” of the area where protesters had camped. The area is part of the campus quad, which is a public space.
Click, 44, has not commented about the video and made her Twitter account private amid the backlash.
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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 well as protest movements and groups tend to see the media as much as a nuisance, a target, or an agent out there to be leveraged or pushed around
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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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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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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 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 photos were good and people liked them. The problem, this person said, was that it was unclear when, or how, the further publication of Instagram photos would stop.