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 support.”
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 are dependent on the critical link that foreign correspondents play. They are an important piece of the puzzle of understanding China.”
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 own or another agency’s—and law enforcement in more than half of all states can search against the trove of photos stored for IDs like drivers’ licenses
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 some point in his career. But he always assumed working in […]
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/first_person/ed_ou_border_standing_rock.php
After they took his phones and SIM cards into another room, Ou says they started going through his checked bags. Then they read and photocopied his personal journals against his wishes.
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 the disaster relief organisation, Gift of the Givers Foundation.
First Amendment experts say the White House decision to bar several outlets from a briefing last week may have been unconstitutional.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/politics/white-house-barring-reporters-from-briefings.html
“That was unconstitutional,” he said. “If you exclude reporters from briefings that they otherwise have a right to attend because you don’t like their reporting, then you have engaged in viewpoint discrimination.” Viewpoint discrimination by the government in a public forum is almost always unconstitutional.
President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian diplomats is being heavily criticized by US photographers today. The administration’s decision to lock out
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/05/11/russian-photographer-oval-office-raises-red-flags-us-media-locked/
The White House Press pool was locked out, and the only photographers allowed in the room were the official White House photographer and Alexander Shcherbak. Shcherbak was initially identified as Lavrov’s official photographer; however, it was later discovered that he is a photojournalist from Russia’s state-owned news agency TASS.
A federal judge on Friday struck down Utah’s
via The Salt Lake Tribune: https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5485584&itype=CMSID
A federal judge on Friday struck down Utah’s so-called “ag gag” law, siding with animal-rights activists that the statute — which prohibits unauthorized filming of agricultural operations — violates free speech rights.
On August 10, 2017, the popular podcast Radiolab published an episode entitled “Truth Trolls,” which recounted the story of actor Shia Lebeouf’s “He Will Not Divide Us” performance art protest against Donald Trump’s ascendency to President of the United States. After a number of heated incidents in New York and Albuquerque, Lebeouf moved the project…
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/08/using-photos-fight-hate-better-worse/
And thus we confront one of the contemporary conundrums of images and culture. More than any time in the history of photography, images and metadata provide incredibly powerful ways to increase transparency and uncover “truth.” But the potential for malicious or misuse is high. And ironically, publicizing these incidents often brings attention to fringe ideologies.
In the wake of a tragedy, the media universe is grappling with an issue it has avoided for years.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/business/media/charlottesville-deadly-protest-media.html
It took the death of a young woman at the hands of one of the neo-Nazis she was protesting to force the ever-expanding media universe to face a question it has been evading for years: Where’s the line?
French President Emmanuel Macron has filed a legal complaint against a photographer who he claims infringed upon his “right to privacy.” The photographer
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/08/18/french-president-sues-photographer-followed-holiday/
The photographer in question, however, apparently went to great lengths to capture images of Macron and his wife. The photographer reportedly used a motorbike to follow Macron and his wife “on several occasions despite repeat warnings from security staff, and sometimes did so in a risky and perilous manner,” the French government tells the Telegraph.
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Sterne pointed to an unsympathetic statement released by ASH Antifa Seven Hills that incorrectly suggests journalists must get people’s consent before filming, despite journalists having a legal right to record public gatherings without the demonstrators’ consent.
The president’s angry condemnation during a campaign-style rally heightened the fear that verbal attacks on the press could lead to physical attacks.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/business/media/trump-rally-media-attack.html
But Tuesday’s remarks struck a tone that alarmed journalists more than usual. Margaret Sullivan, a media columnist for The Washington Post, called it “the most sustained attack any president has ever made on the press.”
As the president’s attacks on the media become more strident, worries rise that reporters are being put at risk of violence.
The attacks on ProPublica were so intense that they caused the entire staff to lose access to incoming email for five or six hours on Tuesday, the journalism organization’s president, Richard Tofel, told me.
The rebuke by Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said the president’s words could incite violence and had potentially dangerous consequences outside the United States.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/world/europe/trump-press-united-nations.html
“It’s really quite amazing when you think that freedom of the press, not only a cornerstone of the Constitution but very much something the United States defended over the years, is now itself under attack from the president himself,” Mr. al-Hussein said. “It’s a stunning turnaround.”
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The story in the New York Times this week was unsettling: The New America Foundation, a major think tank, was getting rid of one of its teams of scholars, the Open Markets group. New America had warned its leader Barry Lynn that he was “imperiling the institution,” the Times reported, after he and his group had…
via Gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-quash-ideas-it-doesn-t-li-1798646437
After the meeting, I approached Google’s public relations team as a reporter, told them I’d been in the meeting, and asked if I understood correctly. The press office confirmed it, though they preferred to say the Plus button “influences the ranking.” They didn’t deny what their sales people told me: If you don’t feature the +1 button, your stories will be harder to find with Google.
An Ohio newspaper photojournalist was shot by a police officer last night after the cop mistook the camera and tripod the photographer was holding for a
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/09/05/news-photographer-shot-cop-mistook-camera-tripod-gun/
The New Carlisle News reports that its photographer Andy Grimm was shot by Clark County deputy Jake Shaw at around 10 p.m. last night while he was trying to shoot some photos of a traffic stop.
Campaign group and social media users decry ‘hottest fans’ gallaery as a sexist throwback to 1970s
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/26/getty-delete-gallery-of-world-cups-sexiest-fans-after-criticism
Picture agency Getty has come under fire from campaigners and social media users after publishing, then deleting, a gallery of what it deemed the “sexiest” fans at the World Cup.